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eskimokid
27th April 2008, 05:15
yo, I have downloaded over 800 youtube videos and i want to watch them on my regular dvd player connected to my TV. ive been mucking around or experimenting with converting the .flv files to mpeg and avi. Ive been using Magic Video Converter 8.0.2.18, Blaze Media Pro 8.0, Ashampoo.Burning.Studio.7.21 and Nero. Magic Video Converter seems to work best for me, easy to use and once i have converted the files to MPEG they are not too much bigger than the original .flv files. But here is my problem. When i go to make a DVD disc (to be played on a DVD player) in Ashampoo Burning.Studio or Nero the files suddenly become huge and take up like 4 times the amount of space. I want to be able to fit 4.7 GIG worth of data (youtube videso) on a DVD disc that can be played on my DVD player and watched on TV. I figure if audio can be compressed, like you can get 10 mp3 albums onto a CD-R which is roughly 700 minutes of playing time on a normal 74 minute playing CD-R, so how do you do this with video? I dont really care about quality or frame size, .flv files are already compressed. I also tried just burning the .avi files to a DVD disc but it did'nt work, my player does'nt support it.
Im pretty sure this can be done because i have heard of people fitting like 30 episodes of a TV show (30min episodes) onto a single DVD-R, i just dont know how to do it myself, well im sure im at the right place, so can anyone help me out here?

fazzaz31
28th April 2008, 00:09
Autostart / standalone DVDs use vob files which are big by their nature. You need to do a few (cheap) things:

1) Buy a player that supports DivX ($40)

2) Convert the flv's to DivX (Lisa FLV to DivX (http://www.brothersoft.com/lisa-flv-to-divx-converter-86085.html), FLV to DivX Converter (http://www.dvd-ipod.biz/convert/flv-to-divx-converter.html), ($20-$30)

3) using Nero, burn DivX files as DATA dvd (you already have Nero, so it's free)

4) plop into DivX player, sit back and watch.

5) alternately, run a VGA, S-Video, or DVI cable from your computer to your TV