Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 1/16/2005, 7:33 PM
Most likely you can't -- not without a serious loss of quality.

You might be able to do with a double-layer DVD, but even that might be kind of tight. Professionals has special high-end compressions that allow them to squeeze "The Godfather" on a DVD, no problem. But as for us...

On possibility I've seen discussed on this forum, though, involves saving the DVD files to your hard drive and using a program called, I think, DVD Shrink to further compress the files.

But, even then, 2 hours is a lot to squeeze down...
ScottW wrote on 1/17/2005, 8:01 AM
The biggest problem you're going to have is the lack of an AC3 encoder. Because you only have PCM for the audio, you'll need to lower the video bitrate to around 3,500 Kb/s to fit 2 hours of video and audio on the DVD.

3,500 is pretty low if you hope to maintain good video quality.

If you had access to an AC3 encoder, you could get by with a bitrate of 4,800 - which is much better.

Generally, I try to not put more than 1.5 hours on a DVD (with AC3 audio). With PCM for audio, I'd try not to exceed 1 hour 15 minutes.

--Scott

BigEgg wrote on 1/17/2005, 8:05 AM
Thanks Grisetti and Thanks Scott. I will use 2 dvdr :-)