Originally posted by zapph:

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Well, there's obviously a difference between good quality and great quality and what it comes down to is what you find acceptable.

While you can get all five movies to fit onto a single disc, you're not going to want to try to watch them on a 52-inch High-Def LCDtv. If you're just going to watch them on a 27-inch CRTtv, then the quality should look almost as good as a standard-def over-the-air tv show.

As for how to do it: get a copy of ConvertXtoDVD. It has an option, under Encoding, that let's you choose the size, in megabytes, of the finished video. Divide the 4300MB available on a single-layer DVD by five and you'll get 860MB per movie. This averages out to about 8-10MB per minute, which isn't that great, but it also isn't too bad.

There are plenty of arguments against doing videos in such a small size but, remember, the OP asked how to do it, not whether or not it should be done.

I'd suggest doing just one movie and checking it out to see if the quality is acceptable to you before diving in and doing the whole set.

If you're not worried about having a menu, you can do each movie, individually, then put the disc together using Nero's Recode A DVD function. If you do want a menu, one option is to let ConvertX do all of the movies, in one go, with it's own menu. This is going to take a lo-oo-oo-ong time - at least a couple of hours per movie, depending on your computer's specs. Another option, that would allow you to do each movie, individually, with ConvertX, then add a menu, later, is to use TMPGenc DVD Author to build the disc and add the menu.

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