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musicvid10 wrote on 10/26/2009, 11:37 AM
Your safest bet is to split it between 2 standard DVDs. That would be 3Mbs.
Even 3 hours is a lot for one DVD, but we've all done it with football games.

6 hours on a SL DVD is not going to be acceptable quality under any circumstances.
I don't recommend double layer media because they won't play on all players.
Coursedesign wrote on 10/26/2009, 12:19 PM
I've done longer SL video DVDs than that, to send timecode burns for review, where the quality doesn't matter too much.

There is another way to put 6 hours of video on an educational DVD with better quality than a 90 minute regular DVD.

It is widely used by educational companies such as TotalTraining, RippleTraining and many more.

Just make a data DVD with Quicktime videos, and an HTML menu if you want, then tell the end user to put this in a computer and project it at say 1024x768 if they have a typical setup, or just show it on the computer screen.
fldave wrote on 10/26/2009, 12:22 PM
352x320 is a compatible DVD format also, not sure what it would look like on a bigscreen, though. I haven't burned one of those in a long, long time.

The smaller number of pixels allows for a better quality at a given bitrate.
Coursedesign wrote on 10/26/2009, 12:25 PM
Screw ye olde video DVDs!

The data DVD format is here for our benefit, use it!

musicvid10 wrote on 10/26/2009, 12:28 PM
It looks like the OP wants something an average consumer can put in any DVD player and play, not a data disc.
Coursedesign wrote on 10/26/2009, 12:32 PM
Is he saying?

Sometimes we think "I want a simple DVD to put in a player," but when we are presented with a practical alternative that provides for far better quality and the simplicity of a single disk instead of 3 disks, we jump up and holler, "Tallyho!"

Or something like that.
musicvid10 wrote on 10/26/2009, 12:38 PM
Sorry I didn't have anything to go on but what he stated.
My clairvoyant hat is at the cleaners.
Coursedesign wrote on 10/26/2009, 12:51 PM
:O)
CVM wrote on 10/26/2009, 1:32 PM
Thanks for the suggestions and advice... I appreciate it!

The data DVD idea may fly, especially since this was a physician lecture and docs like to THINK they know computers and do a lot of 'video-based' research via the Web. However, I have to clear it with the client.

That being said, I have no freakin' clue how to make an HTML menu! I'm already 2 dozen hours over my estimate (gonna eat it) so I'm hesitant to spend more time learing something new.

Let's talk about DL disks for a minute... are they STILL problematic on consumer DVD players???? It's been a couple years now. This would solve my problem, no?

Thanks!
musicvid10 wrote on 10/26/2009, 2:04 PM
A DVD9 would be well below 3Mbs for 6 hrs, which is about the lowest I can stomach for football.

A DVD9 holds about 7.95GB, it is not twice the size of DVD5.

Burned DL is still problematic because many people use their old players until they fall apart.
Former user wrote on 10/26/2009, 2:05 PM
Burned DL disks are still problematic.

I would suggest multiple disks if you go the Video DVD route.

Dave T2
fldave wrote on 10/26/2009, 2:12 PM
From the DVDA manual, there are other options also smaller than the Standard 720x480. 352x480 can work also.

cbrillow wrote on 10/26/2009, 2:16 PM
"A DVD9 holds about 4.95GB, it is not twice the size of DVD5."

No, not twice the capacity of a DVD-5, but you're way off on this calculation, according to my sources, which cite 8.54G (or 7.95G, depending on how you're counting your gigs...)
musicvid10 wrote on 10/26/2009, 2:24 PM
Woops, typo corrected.
farss wrote on 10/26/2009, 2:25 PM
We have a set of 8 commercial DVDs that contain a 48 hour movie. They're SL DVDs and it looks very good, fitting 8 hours onto a SL DVD at reasonable quality is doable depending on the content.

Bob.
cbrillow wrote on 10/27/2009, 7:20 AM
Come to think of it, I regularly burn edited hour-long episodes of a TV program to DVD. After editing, they run 40 - 42 minutes each, and I fit 9 eps/disc. That's 6 hours+. The quality isn't great, but it's watchable. Works fine where program content is important, but picture quality is less so.

I should also mention that I'd doing it at the EP speed of my DVD recorder, not with DVD Architect, but the central issue concerns the amount of video that can be put on a DVD, not whether it can be done with DVDA.