More than 120 min DVD burning

[LucioSi]

Hello...

I am working in Nero Vision Express and I want to make a DVD which will be more than 120 min long. Inside Nero there is a QUALITY SETTING where you can set STANDARD PLAY (120 min) and also LONG PLAY (180 min) and EXTENDED PLAY (240 min).

When I burn more than 120 min on a disc (EXTENDED PLAY for example), the disc will not play on my DVD player.

Maybe I am recording on wrong media? Disc is 4,7 GB and 120 min. Maybe there is a mistake?

Thank you...

LucioSi

[terminator911]

I never pay attention to 120 minute limit, etc... If you are new to this just use DVD Shrink www.dvdshrink.info to compress your movie no matter the length and then use Nero to burn.

[symonjfox]

In DVD+-R there's written 120 min, but this is just an advice for unexpert people.

In fact, in a DVD R you can store up to 4483 MB of data. So it could be a 1 good quality film, 2 mid quality films, more low quality films (I could put ~6 CVDs into 1 DVDr, ok, quality is not perfect, but it works).

Anyway it's better not to use too low bitrates because reading for a long time at < 1x speed is a heavy work for your DVD drive.

For the Nero question, I hate 1click solutions because they don't let me tweak the work as I would.
For example I use Doitfastforyou for ripping, then I edit the AVS file depending on what I'm encoding (for example I reduce to 704x576 for very long films, I letterbox with pure black bars if needed, I apply filters if needed, but there's no rule, depends on what I'm working).
At the end, I encode the video with CCE, I keep the original audio and Reautor the disc.

It's an hard work, but quality is awesome, also with very long films like LOTR.

Read a lot of guides and forums, and make your choices.

Good encoding ;)