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Depending on the bitrate you use when encode, (DVD uses VBR, not CBR), it's usually you who decide how much a movie can become big. TMPGenc talls 'about 155' movie fit on a 4.7 GB DVD', twice for a dual layer DVD. 8x30' = 240', therefore no surprise your DVDs could keep many TV episodes.
It's only a 'game' of bitrate: a DVD movie is VBR so , usually , whan you encode a single movie , the bitrate of the encoder is automaticlally expanded to that 1 movie fills a DVD (it cannot be reduced too much, because you wouldn't obtain a good movie, but it can be expanded at will).
This 'autometically select the bitrate' feature must not be used if you want to fit multiple episodes on a DVD. You should try to fill 10%-13% of the available space, per episode, not 100%.
After you made the 8 'small' movies, making the DVD and the menus is only a question of 'authoring'
My personal suggestion, but this is only because I want to encourage people in using other formats of movie (much faster to prepare and not so worse) and you're converted a 'lossy' format like AVI (Xvid), you're not trying to send 'pure DVD-rips':
1) turn all episodes in VCD MPEG-1 (which is encoded CBR and is much simpler) with what you prefer. Expected size: 10 MB x minute (600 MB per hour)
2) author a DVD containing multiple movies with DVD Lab, the only authoring application which allows you to put VCD movied on a DVD.
In this way you can fil 470' on a 4.7 GB or 900' on a dual layer 9 GB DVD.
If you wand to KEEP 100% of the input movies quality (if they are very good), you could encode all movies into DVD movies (each one having its sound stream(s)), with a proper bitrate so that every one fills 12% of the DVD, but it'll take much longer (>7 times longer).
More, 450' per DVD is better than 150' per DVD. I suggest you to test VCD once, then decide.
Menus is a part of the 'authoring' but I'm not used to that, sorry....
Remember: all people continously speak of AVI --> DVD, but a properly made VCD movie could be compared to a DVD movie. 99% of the quality of the result depends on the INPUT movie(s), not on making a 70x480 movie or a 352x240 one.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 8. June 2005 @ 23:12
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