Please help a new DVD burner!

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waspfactory

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So I just got a DVD burner and I have about 40 episodes of an old TV show on my computer. Each episode is about 25 minutes long and is about 220 megs. They are all .avi format. They aren't the best quality, but they are good enough, and since I will be watching them on my computer they look fine BUT they will only let me put about 2 episodes on a DVD! I understand they are changing the file type or something to put them on a DVD but it's ridiculous. I can put more episodes on a CD as is.

Is there anyway to put a bunch of these .avi files on a DVD? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please don't mock me too much...
 
The-poacher

The-poacher

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Welcome to the Forum :D


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& tell your fellow members about yourself.



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Your problem may have cropped up before.


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U can burn the Avi to DVD (data disk) but if U want to convert avi to DVD this
Tutorial will show U how
 
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waspfactory

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Well, the files aren't divx, they are just avi. I know this because my software doesnt accept divx's into the project but does accept these. I just want to know why the file size of these movies is multiplied by about 5 when I put them in the project, and if there's any way to change this.
 
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LTR12101B

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If you only want to STORE them on a DVD, do it as a DATA project - it sounds like you are making a DVD Video, that would play on a standalone DVD.

If you DO wan't to play on a standard DVD player, but get more episodes in a a quality level similar to what they already are, then you need the DVD experts from here (and I'm not one of them), but it sounds like you just want them stored as they are.

What writer software are you using?
 
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waspfactory

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Well I do want to watch them on a normal dvd player, but i want to be able to fit more than 2 of these movies on a dvd. They are already not great quality but thats what you get when trying to preserve a classic tv show. I was hoping to be able to fit like 10 on a disc since they are only about 200 megs.
 
rebootjim

rebootjim

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In order to have them watchable on a standalone player, you need to encode them to a format your player will accept.
In most cases, DVD, SVCD, or VCD.
If you encode to DVD spec, the files will be large, and you will only get about 2 on a disk. If you encode to SVCD, you can get about 5 on a disk. If you encode to VCD, you can get about 8 on a disk.
The key is in the bitrate used to encode the video, and VCD's lower bitrate means lower quality, but also more efficient use of space.
If your player will play VCD, then that's the encoding type you would use.
Get TMPGEnc, and follow the wizard to encode each episode to mpeg1 (VCD).
Once you have the episodes encoded, you can use an authoring application such as DVDLab to transcode the VCD's into a dvd type, and then burn them to dvdr with any good burning application.
Encode one episode, then play it on your computer in WinDVD, or PowerDVD and see if it's quality is good enough. If so, then burn it to a DVDRW (or CDRW) and test it on your player. If it plays, and quality is acceptable, then author a whole bunch to dvdr and enjoy :)
 
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