Hi. I have some home movies that I recorded in super high quality on DVD-Rs. I would like to combine stuff from 3 discs into one disc but I am unsure if it is A)Possible, and B) the method I would use is correct.
I read that Xvid was the best compression with the least compression loss so I was wondering if and how many full DVD5's could I compress down to Xvid format, and then re-combine to a DVD.
For example:
If I have 4 DVD5s that compress down to 700MB Xvid avi files each.
Can I take those avi files and use a tool like ConvertAviToDVD and get all 4 movies on one DVD?
If so, what would be the best settings for the Xvid codec to get the best quality but still be around 1 GIG max file size?
I'm also not sure if it is possible because I think the conversion from xvid avi back to dvd increases the file size a bit so I'm not sure if I could do 4 discs into 1, but maybe 2 to 1?
That's a good point. I never thought about using DVD shrink to go smaller than a DVD5... I thought tho that maybe using a xvid codec I could have control over more paramaters to ensure quality and stuff
The only way Xvid would be the choice is if you wanted to leave them in that format, for example fit 4-5 movies on a DVD and watch them on a Divx capable player. otherwise, all you do is loose quality- shrink, strecth, shrink again...DVD Shrink , Nero recode or any transcoder/encoder would be your best choice, IMHO.
If you ripped the DVD's onto your PC and then combined them all and converted them back to DVD you would need to compress them heavily to squeeze all that data into one DVD5, which would result in shocking quality. Not mention converting them two times in a row even from a high quality source is going to give you a lot of data loss.
You need a program like DVDShrink or Nero Recode that can shrink those 3 DVD's and reencode them onto a single DVD. I'm not saying your going to be getting brilliant quality mind you, because cramming 14Gigs of video onto one 4.7Gb is not easy and still requires a lot of compression, but you'll loose less quality this way.
