116 minutes of video = 6.3GB?

[baddbill]

I've never seen this before: 116 minute movie "Trading Places" with 3 audio tracks and one subtitle track is 6.3 GB. Shouldn't this be more like 4.2GB? I stripped the movie down so it only has one audio track and one subtitle track and it is still 6.0GB. Why did the manufacturer over bit the movie?

bill

[bretbowman]

Just to piss you off... :)

Actually, time/size really means nothing considering the bitrate difference could mean a 80 minute movie being 6 GB and a 3 hour movie being 4.37 GB. Most studios produce a movie based on the type of movie (lots of darkness, fast moving action, number/variety of colors displayed throughout movie, etc.), and hence this would determine the bitrate that the studio chooses to use (though I think that most are going with higher bitrate/DVD9s(dual layer) to make them more difficult to copy (requiring re-encoding).

I've used the following guide to copy about 385 DVDs that required re-encoding. It's very helpful, and though I didn't quite know what I was doing at first, if you keep plugging away at it 'experience is the best teacher':

http://www.dvdrhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=121195

Most of the software required you can download here (at doom9.org) or there (dvdrhelp.com), but I got some using kazaalite.com program to find cracked version of CCE, etc. I don't care much for DVD Maestro, but it's been doing the job for me. Trying to get a good copy of Pinnacle studio 8, but having trouble finding one that will run correctly. Guess I could spring the $99 for it, but that's less fun.

Good luck and by all means... HAVE FUN!