hi i want 2 put 3 films on 1 dvd disk all the films are less than 2 hours long and in avi format i have tryed useing tmpeg it works with some avi files but the smallest i can get them to is 2gb per film and some films will not go smaller than 4gb ? can eny 1 help me plz thanks :D

Hi ants47, I have generated many anamorphic (720x576) 2pass DivX encodes at around 120mins. All of which have a file size of either 700MB or 800MB. Using this methodology you could in theory store 6No 120min movies onto a single DVD~R/RW! That said, I watch my encodes on a TV, so I don't require the quality that some forum members like to encode to. So it is possible. What tools/methods are you using/tried? Cheers

i use TMPGEnc and TMPGEnc dvd author what sopuld i be useing ?

@SeeMoreDigital: huh? He wants to go avi->DVD-Video ;) ants47, using TMPGEnc you can make the output file size whatever you like (within reason, obviously), you just have to fiddle with the average bitrate. Sounds like you are using 1 pass VBR and letting TMPGEnc decide what the output size should be. 3 films on a DVD-R isn't a great idea IMO, but 2 is doable.

6 hours is a lot ! What you could do is try to encode it to CVD standard and bring the audio back to 128 kbit/s or lower. Still would give you a bitrate of 1600 and 2000 is more like it. Also you have to do several passes VBR.

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You could encode as you presently are in tmpgenc and then use ReJig to reduce the video size.

Personally I wouldn't go for transcoding ~40%, if you would like some quality left, use a encoder like CCE(2.5). a simple AVS script like: AviSource("cap1.avi","cap2.avi","cap3.avi") BicubicResize(352,576) #for Pal And drop it on CCE, (I like CCE) then set Mulitpass VBR ~4 Times? Bitrate avg 1600 min 0 max 9000 The rest depends on the source: PAL / NTSC, fps, size, DAR progressive / interlaced. In the end you have a m2v file compatible for dvd but still have use a authoring program to make the dvd. Not sure audio will work with CCE (mp2 128 kbit/s ?) For other versions of CCE you could use other matrices maybe move this thread to the encoding section ?