DVD help

thebrain900 wrote on 8/17/2011, 7:29 AM
I have DVD Architect 8. and I need some help on making a DVD and the size of the DVD I can have.

I have a lot of video files and they are all 186 MB and some are 156 MB.

Now all the video files in the folder are 5.79 GB.

Now I know a Blank Single Sided Sigel Layer DVD is what we will use and they can only hold 4. GB.

Now I need and want all these video files and I can't get rid of any of them.

Can DVD Architect some how compress them to fit on the DVD??

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 8/17/2011, 7:50 AM
The size of a video file depends on its resolution and format.

A 13 gigabyte AVI, for instance, might produce a 4 gigabyte MPEG for a DVD.

Or you might load a 500 megabyte video from a camera only to find that, once it's been output a video-standard DV-AVI, it's suddenly become a 4 gigabyte file!

So the math is always very relative. It all depends on what file formats you're talking about and how highly they're compressed.

As I say in my DVD Architect book (available on Amazon), a DVD can hold about 60-70 minutes of good, quality video -- once DVD Architect has transcoded it to VOBs.

You don't say where your original video came from or what you converted it to that created files 500 times larger -- or even what format that 5.79 Gb file is. But, if your video is under an hour, DVD Architect should have no problem transcoding it onto a DVD disc.
thebrain900 wrote on 8/18/2011, 10:19 AM
OK this is what I want to do.

I have DVD's of the 1970's TV Show The Land Of The Lost and I was going to take just the ones I liked and put them on one DVD for my Baby Cousin.

But all the VOB file that I Rip to my Hard Drive are all 2. GB and I have 12 VOB files.

Eatch VOB file is one show and is about 30 Min long so I thought this would not fit on one DVD.

So I made them into MP4 H264 files.

I am useing DVD Architect because I want to put a photo of him on the main screen with the Tabs over it.

So can I just Load all 12 of my VOB files into DVD Architect and when it comes time to Burn the DVD it will make them all fit?

These are all right off my DVD's and just Decrypted so there is no Video Picture loss.

cbrillow wrote on 8/18/2011, 1:48 PM
It's apparent that you're intending to use DVD Architect in a way that is antithetical to Sony's position on copyrighted material. Someone may step in and try to help, but a number of forum members make $ creating content and don't take kindly to this type of activity, regardless of how innocent it may seem to you.

One comment I would make is that you're seriously off-base in creating MP4 H264 files when the standard SD DVD source and target file format is MPEG-2.
Steve Grisetti wrote on 8/18/2011, 3:15 PM
But if you're asking if you can fit nearly 6 hours of video on one DVD, the answer is no. Not at any quality level that's watchable.

A standard DVD can hold about 70 minutes of video at full quality.
thebrain900 wrote on 8/18/2011, 4:48 PM
Sorry I was not meen9ing to get anyone into any kind of trable but I think I can ask for help in a diferant way?

I know that most DVD players only play Singel Sided Singel Layer DVD's that are Home Made.

And that kind of DVD only holds 4. GB of Video am I Right??

And 2. if I put a lot of any kind of Video files into DVD Arc. and say I realy load it up am I right that when it Burns it it will make them all fit to DVD but it will just compress them a lot more?
Steve Grisetti wrote on 8/19/2011, 5:37 AM
Your disc player should play both single-side and dual-layer discs, brain.

And, yes, if you try to stuff too much video onto a disc, DVD Architect will squeeze it until it fits -- to a point. You probably can't fit more than two hours of video on a standard disc, for instance. The program just can't squeeze it that much!

Also, the more the program squeezes your video, the more quality your video will lose.

That's why, as a rule of thumb, most people recommend that you fit no more than 70 minutes of video on a standard DVD or 140 minutes on a dual-layer disc.
thebrain900 wrote on 8/20/2011, 11:13 PM
OK thanks and I can burn DL DVDs but can my DVD ARC??
Steve Grisetti wrote on 8/21/2011, 8:21 AM
DVD Architect -- both the Studio and Pro versions -- can burn dual-layer discs.