can anyone help me i had 5 movies and want to amke a single dvd is there any software to fit on single dvd i will be really appricate if someone can help me.
Some details might help. 1. What format are your movies in? AVI? DVDs? WMVs? MP4? MKVs? 2. What is the total duration of all these 5 movies added together? Approximately? Before you start, know this: If you're lucky, you might get your 5 movies with only 20% the quality of the source. If you're unlucky your 5 movies may end up with only 10% quality. Yes, I'm trying to scare you into re-thinking. LOL! With the price of DVDRs today, plus the effort and time taken to encode, not to mention authoring, is it worth it to reduce quality so much just to save on media? Make one less phone call today and you might be able to buy another blank DVDR. Sure, I can show you how to squeeze 7.5 hours into 1 DVDR, but you might not like the quality. My rule of thumb: exceeding 3 hours of playback per DVDR is "bad". Think again. Come back to us with your decision and we'll get it on, for better or for worse.
As long as the total running time is around three hours, try DVD Flick It includes a nice, concise guide. http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_tools/dvd_flick.cfm
As you can see, we're more interested in "total duration", not file size. A 700 MB AVI means nothing much to us. They're prolly more than 60 mins each. There can be a great time difference between a Divx/Xvid source AVI and an H.264 source AVI for a 700MB file size. And individual frame sizes and bitrates used will color them up nicely. Just play back each file, note the duration and then add them up. This will give us an approximation of what you intend to do and perhaps offer a more accurate help/guide/advice. Or just follow attar's recommendation above this post. Again, I'll ask you to seriously reconsider squeezing all of them into a single DVDR. Even if they're all 1 hr each, that gives a 5 hour duration total. If exceeding 3 hrs is considered "bad", can you imagine what exceeding 5 hrs will be? If they're all episodic AVIs, meaning abt 45 mins each, you might be lucky and might be able to squeeze all 3.75 hrs into a DVDR. Remember what I said before that encoding is the longest part - it can take hours depending on your PC's power. If after spending so much time waiting for it to complete and then finding out that the quality you get is "near junk", will you be happy?
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Don't use dvd flick that will turn them into dvd's and you will only get 1 on a disk. Just use nero express or your burning program and burn all 5 as a data dvd disk, at 700 you can get 6 on 1 dvd I have hundreds done this way
I'd like to correct this. A 'normal' DVD player will not playback AVIs. Some will not even play back MPEG files burnt in data/ISO9660 format. A DVD player 'certified' to playback Divx is required, but only for MPEG-4 ASP based video codecs (Divx, Xvid, MP4v1/2/3). And only those using SD profiles (720x576) and below. Those 'certified' for Divx Ultra will be able to playback Divx Ultra AVI's with menus (like a DVD). Again, SD profiles only. Also, the AVIs must never be encoded with Xvid GMC (Global Motion Compensation) enabled. As for audio codecs, only LPCM, MP3 and AC3 are allowed. DTS, AAC & WMA support are optional - depends on model. That's a Divx capable DVD player for you. To identify if they're supported, look for all the logos printed on the player. You dont see them (the Divx logo), chances are that they're not supported. Saying 'nomal' is misleading here. It's like saying my 'normal' Samsung Series 8 LED TV plays back Matroska (MKV) files w/o problems - without any need for a player even. Hey, it's a 'normal' TV right?
@ markk200 Bottom line here is if your player can play divx (logo on front) These avi's will play fine if burnt as a data dvd. I get dvdrip movies from torrent sites and also i make backups of my dvd movies to a iso and convert with fairuse wizard, and they all play on my player. 5 to 6 avi's to 1 dvd disk depending on size, Don't burn to close to the edge, keep then down to 4300 to 4400mb max.
