DVD size/SVCD size

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cytotoxin

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A thing that I think is strange is that when I checked the size on a DVD it said 0,99 Gb but when I converted the DVD to svcd the size was much bigger... why is that?
 
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cytotoxin

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yeah it was one vob file with the size 0,99gb I wrote wrong. but when I have converted this vob file the svcd, the files has the size 800mg each... and how does that come?
 
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cytotoxin

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A program called Imtoo dvd ripper. an easy program that seems very stupid to.. I tried to convert the first DVD of fellowship of the ring, extended v." (1h 41min long)
then I typed in the output settings that each svcd file should have the size 800mg (so it wouldn't take so many cdr's). then when the conversion was finnished I got 3 files. two of them with the size 800mg and one with 420mg, so this first half of the movie will take 3cdr's and that is very annoying!
 
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dreadycarpenter

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cytotoxin said:
A program called Imtoo dvd ripper. an easy program that seems very stupid to.. I tried to convert the first DVD of fellowship of the ring, extended v." (1h 41min long)
then I typed in the output settings that each svcd file should have the size 800mg (so it wouldn't take so many cdr's). then when the conversion was finnished I got 3 files. two of them with the size 800mg and one with 420mg, so this first half of the movie will take 3cdr's and that is very annoying!
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your problem is you encoded the video at to high of a "bitrate".the bitrate directly affects the size and quality of the video. you probably used the default settings for encoding...although i'm not familiar with that program, you can probably lower the bitrate and set it for how many cds you want in the end, I personaly use dvd2svcd, but most programs have that option....... are you formatting a svcd to play on a stand alone dvd player, or do you just want to backup a dvd to play back on your pc?? if you said for pc then i suggest converting to a xvid/mpeg4 compression, i backup all my dvds to 2cds with virtually no lost(way better quality than svcd).. hope this help
 
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A 1hr 41min SVCD spread on 3 800meg CD's is fine. Put it to 2 cd's and it will be quite poor quality, the choice is simply yours. Then you have the 2nd half of the movie to do and yes, it will give you another 3 CD's, a total of 6 for over a 3 hr. Anything less will be quite poor quality.

You could convert them to VCD and end up only 4 CD's total, but expect an even further quality drop.

Or as dreadycarpenter said, convert to DivX and then it will fit onto 2 cd's but unless you have a DVD player that can play DivX movies, you have to play them on the PC only.
 
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cytotoxin

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thankyou very much for the help

yes I only DVD player i have is the one in my pc.

but anothoer question , how do I burn DiVX? Is the same procedur as burning usal computer files?

But what is best? xvid or divx?
 
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cytotoxin

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is it possible to get movie subtitels in dvddecrypoter, I tried smartripper and later when I played the avi-file there was no subtitle in the movie.
 
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celtic_druid

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Both DVDDecrypter and Smart Ripper can rip subs. Getting them to work with an AVI is a different matter though and really has little to do with the actual ripping.

There are several methods. You could hard encode the subs, leave them as is and use say VOBSub for playback or convert them to textsubs and do the same.
 
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