compress to fit on dvd

[rodrizzle]

hi i have converted quite a few of my home videos from my camcorder to DVD and I have been quite happy with the results however I have a problem now I cant seem to figure out.

I have roughly 2 and a half hours of mpeg2 footage that I want to put onto one DVD. Im using tmpgenc dvd author and have added the footage to that and made all the menus and when I go to author it it says that its over the file limit size and ask if i want to continue. I continue and when it gets to 4.7gig the program said that it was unable to continue the authoring. Does anyone know of any other authoring progams that wont do that???

What I wanted to do was to create the DVD files and then compress it using DVD shrink or something and then burn to disc.

Does anyone have any hints or any other way I could go about doing this?

[Zeul]

Either re-encode your avi into mpeg2 at a lower average bitrate / transcode your current mpeg2 file (Rejig for example) / re-encode your current mpeg2 (do this by creating a d2v project with dgindex and then create an avs file. Load this avs into any encoder. If you use HC encoder then you can see what the final file size will be. Don't forget to give yourself enough room for the actual VOB information (say 100MB) , less the menu sizes.

There are plenty of other Authoring applications available, that won't give you this error.

[Raziel6969]

Hello

I started authoring with DVD Author, it's simple but very limitating.
Now i use DVD-Lab Pro, that is very flexible and easy (read the help files, there are good).

If you get passed the DVD5 limit, you can transcode with DVDshrink with a little time (Rejig can do it, but i didn't use it) or Re-encode with DVD-Rebuilder (i'm fan of this, maybe you can try to reencode to fit the size with your way, than DVD-RB ;) ).

Note: Re-encode takes a lot more time than transcode, only i recommended if the final size is below 60%

Bye

[JeremyIrons]

Try a DVD authoring software that doesn't yell at you for going over 4.5GB

I use dvdauthor command-line, however there's a GUI for it out there that works quite well. Once your DVD project is ready, you can use DVD Shrink like you mentionned before.

DVDauthorGUI: http://www.videohelp.com/~liquid217/dvdauthorgui.pl?p=download