I want to convert more than one film to dvd with chapters.

[deano10]

I own the Winfast TV2000 Xp package and I want to convert all my VHS films to DVD. I noticed I can only seem to get good quality recording in AVI format. So what I want to do is make a DVD with two or more films on it, and would like to have chapter selection on each film. I have heard it is possible to get up to five films on one DVD. So basically I am asking. How do I fit more than one film on a DVD that will play on a DVD player, selecting the film from the menu and during play of the film, be able to press the NEXT button in order to skip to the next chapter? My email is ...... I would be grateful if someone can point me in the right direction and tell me what software I need.


Edited reason:- NOT a good idea to post your email in your post it leaves it open to abuse >>>VIPER_1069 <<<<

 

[VIPER_1069]

re your question ..... compression is the answer but... compression looses quality so its swings and roundabouts

DVD2ONE allows you to use mulitple sources search the forum for more info on this

but i would ADVISE that you maby only try for 2 films on one dvd but maby in mpeg 2 format

 

[ChickenMan]

If you capture the VHS to VCD standards then you can simply author 3-4-5 or more to a DVDR with DVDLab, but it depends on the length of the movie as how many can fit. A good VHS is about VCD quality anyway so wastefull to capture at any higher resolution as you cant improve quality. Have a read of the SVCD/VCD to DVDR Tutorials on how to use DVDLab.

 

[MackemX]

Hi deano10 and welcome to the forums (cool name by the way )

if it's quality you are after then another longer option is to transfer them to your Hard Drive using the appropiate quality option so hopefully nothing at all is lost in the transfer. After that then you can author them using DVDLAB etc and finally use something like DVDShrink or DVDRebuilder to fit them to a DVDR

as Viper mentions, stick with 2 movies per DVD also as the cost of a blank these days in minimal

you would need plenty of disc space of course

 

[celtic_druid]

I would keep capturing to AVI (assuming you are using a lossless codec) at higher than VCD res. Frameserve with AVISynth to denoise, resize, etc. then encode to VCD res MPEG2. If you don't take into account the fact that there would be four audio streams you should get four films fine as you are using quarter res.

 

[VIPER_1069]

ok messing about ive managed to get 2 vcds and 2 svcds to one dvd with a menu and some still image chapter selection screens the quality aint dvd quality more like VHS quality.... but they are still watchable

I used ULEAD DVD movie factory as it handles both VCD and SVCD mpeg1 and mpeg2 files

not a perfect solution but then again it WAS a very quick test and play around to see whats what i didnt take much time over it but it worked