Encode Dvd?

[pwrstick]

Hello,

I've been using Gordian knot for so long now, and I love it! Thanks to all the people involved, it's so awesome.

But I recently got to thinking it'd be nice to put some of the stuff I ripped back on a DVD. I am trying ULead's dvd authoring software as a free trial, but it can only do 60 minutes of video (at high quality).

Has anyone experimented or know a program that will create a DVD and allow you to keep the video file size close to the same size?

I.e. if I want to put ten 300MB video files on a dvd, and use a menu to play them, is that possible?

Thanks

[Awatef]

You can keep the same size, but the quality will drop dramatically!
A DVD is ment to hold 1 hour of video in "perfect" quality, 2 hours of video in "normal" quality, 4 hours in near SVCD quality or 8 hours in near VCD quality.
Your 10 videos are at least 4 hours long I guess, so you'll have to live with 352x480 (or 352x576) at most and bitrates around 2 Mbit/s at most.

[pwrstick]

Interesting. So most movies we see are "Normal" quality?

So if I was burning dual layer dvds, maybe then I could do about 4 episodes at normal quality. I guess that's how they do it because when I've ripped discs before I get about 7GB of data.

[CWR03]

You'd have a lot less work to do, and end up with a much better quality result, if you just make copies of your original DVD's.

[setarip_old]

Hi!I recently got to thinking it'd be nice to put some of the stuff I ripped back on a DVD.if your standalone player is capable of playing .AVIs (DivX or XviD compressed) you don't have to convert your files. Simply burn a Data DVD and you'll be able to put 4 to 6 of them on one single-layer DVD - and keep the very same quality of your already-compressed videos...

[Awatef]

The solution setarip suggested is definitely the best way to put a lot of videos into one DVD, because as said, if you put more than 2 hours on a DVD-Video, the quality will go below "normal"...
It's definitely better than buying expensive DL-discs!