fisix
8th October 2005, 11:18
i have a 3.8 GB svcd file, and want to burn it on a dvd in a way that keeps the quality of the file yet allows it to be played on a regular dvd player (regular in the sense that it can play svcd when burned onto a cd, so far).
as of right now, i've just burned a udf data cd using nero and put the mpg file on it. i used udf because iso doesn't allow single files to be that big. as i expected, most dvd players don't recognize the file.
so i just want a little direction. should i try to break up the mpeg into files smaller than 2GB (i think that's the iso limit) and just burn an iso data disk?
is there some other way i can burn an extra long svcd onto a dvd? or is there some other strategy?
i'm looking for something easy that keeps the general quality of the file intact (480x480 svcd high quality). it's 3+ hours of video, sound is semi unimportant quality wise. when i tried encoding the same video into regular dvd format at low quality, the end mpeg2 file was 3GB but looked quite a bit worse. i'm sure i could do better, and probably utilize the space better by using cce or tmpg, but the source video is from a newish handheld video camera with a hard drive that came with somewhat handicapped software, and i'm exploring options that use the included software as much as possible since a less than technically talented person will be using it after i get the system down. and at this point, i don't know what format the original data files are (probably dv of some kind) or how i'd easily stitch the various files together into a single video... the camera saves a new file every time the camera stops, so, for example, the 3+ hours of video above are stitched from 30+ files. the included software just lets you drag and drop.
as of right now, i've just burned a udf data cd using nero and put the mpg file on it. i used udf because iso doesn't allow single files to be that big. as i expected, most dvd players don't recognize the file.
so i just want a little direction. should i try to break up the mpeg into files smaller than 2GB (i think that's the iso limit) and just burn an iso data disk?
is there some other way i can burn an extra long svcd onto a dvd? or is there some other strategy?
i'm looking for something easy that keeps the general quality of the file intact (480x480 svcd high quality). it's 3+ hours of video, sound is semi unimportant quality wise. when i tried encoding the same video into regular dvd format at low quality, the end mpeg2 file was 3GB but looked quite a bit worse. i'm sure i could do better, and probably utilize the space better by using cce or tmpg, but the source video is from a newish handheld video camera with a hard drive that came with somewhat handicapped software, and i'm exploring options that use the included software as much as possible since a less than technically talented person will be using it after i get the system down. and at this point, i don't know what format the original data files are (probably dv of some kind) or how i'd easily stitch the various files together into a single video... the camera saves a new file every time the camera stops, so, for example, the 3+ hours of video above are stitched from 30+ files. the included software just lets you drag and drop.