I have Vista Basic x64 and am using TMPGEnc Authoring works 4 to author and burn my DVD's. I have 22 episodes of a TV show that only ran for one year along time ago. They are currently AVI's. I want to burn them to DVD, getting as many of the episodes as I can on each disk. The first episode was about 1 Hr and 20 Mins long and each episode after that was about 44 minutes. I was doing a test run In TMPGEnc and was surprised to find that, when I loaded up only the first episode, it just about maxed out the discs capacity at 3781 MB's!. Then when I added one 44 min episode it maxed it out way over 4.7 GB's. What I can't figure out is, before I got these AVI's I actually bought the show from someone who burned them to disc as sort of a home project and he managed to somehow get all 22 episodes on only four discs. Some discs had up to six episodes, others had maybe 4 or 5. This amazes me how he did this and that's what I want to do, but how did he do it. As it is right now with TMPGEnc It's making it look like I can only get one episode on a disc!
Hi, I'm not a big fan of TMPG for this kind of task - it makes things more complicated than need be. Do you use Nero? Nero Vision can recode AVIs to the ISO format of a regular DVD and you can add as many or few as you like. If you add to much info it prompts you that it will need to compress or it just wont fit so that you can take an episode off the list if you wish. Depending on quality you should be able to get 4-5 on each disk. Someone else may have a better solution but that's how I do it. It also lets you add menus and chapters which can be useful.
Yes I do have Nero Vision. I'm a little confused though about the terminology here though...So I would convert the AVIs to ISO files and burn those onto a DVD? How would you play back ISO on a home DVD player though?
The ISO is a special image format designed for the purpose of working on regular DVD players. It's what the shop bought disks will have imprinted on them. All you would be doing is transferring the AVI to a file type that your DVD player can read ok. Nero is quite clever (when it works) in that it will know how many AVI types can squeeze onto a DVD without making the quality suck.
Jan, you're missing a basic understanding. If you lower the bitrate, you can put more hours and minutes onto the DVD. Somewhere in the product, there's a place to adjust the bitrate. Or why don't you just use DVD Flick ? It's free, and does this kind of thinking for you.
convertxtodvd is just totally awsome just for this reason. combineing multiple .avi's onto 1 disc. ive just done the first season of true blood this way. i have 3-4 episodes on a disc. normal quality/settings with convertxtodvd it will let you make your own menu and everything. plus you can burn what you converted afterwards.
Tried that, but I had problems getting the program to close! I actually think I've found a way to make it work in TMPGEnc, though it won't be the exact way I was hoping for.
