I recently saw this video http://www.g4tv.com/videos/email.html?video_key=9473 and wanted to know if anybody out there knows how to put many DVD movies into one DVD whether on a regular DVD or dual layer one. I have few DVDs I converted to AVI and would like to have them on one because they are my son's favorite movies and it would be great if I could only carry one DVD around rather than 5 or so...thanks guys ahead of time :-)
If size is not a problem, putting multiple dvds onto one single dvd is pretty simple, and you don't need to convert them into AVI first. Here's how to do it with Shrink:
First, copy all dvds onto the harddisk, each under a separate folder (e.g. movie1, movie2). Then run Shrink, click 'reauthor', then go highlight the video_ts folder of each dvd on the hardisk, and click to paste the various 'titles' over onto the compilation window. Adjust 'compression settings' if needed, then burn away!
The Problem with useing DVD-Shrink to do it is that it will only use the Full D1 DVD Standard and with this DVD Standard any More than 3 hours on a DVD Looks awefull....
You can Fit over 6 hours of Video on a Single Layered DVD with much better quality if you used the "SIF/CIF" DVD Standard.....
If you encoded your AVI files of the DVD"s to Mpeg-2 at 352x240 with a bitrate of about 1400kbs for the Video and 192kbs for the audio you could Fit 6 hours on a DVD with better than VCD Quality.....
This way takes Longer and is More Complicated but you will fit much more Video on a DVD with better quality....
Well any Good Mpeg encoder can Encode your AVI files to Mpeg-2 useing the SIF/CIF DVD Standard, I suggest something like "Tmpgenc" and set the Video resolution to 352x240 and the Video bitrate to about 1400kbs and the audio bitrate to 192kbs at 48000hz then you should be able to get 6 hours on a DVD with watchable Quality, You will also need to use a DVD authoring Program that Supports authoring These Type of DVD"s Like "Tmpgenc DVD author".....
It is Basicly like encodeing your AVI files to VCD Format accept you can use Mpeg-2 and the audio has to be 48000hz....
