i have 24 episodes of an anime series on my harddrive in .avi format (about 25 minutes and 175mb each). i wanted to know how many episodes would fit onto 1 DVD-R. and what is the best program to encode these files. thanks!
DVD5 media is made to hold 2 hours of video. (Good Quality Input Files)
Several people using ConvertXtoDVD go up to 4 hours without really seing great loss of quality.
More than 4 hours, I would not recomment but some even fit 6 hours on one DVD5 but I assume the quality probably much lower than 4 hours.
My 2 cents...
Kinda true, but it depends on what it's being watched on, i.e. 27 inch vs. 50 inch. The amount of action also has a bearing. A high action movie will require a higher bitrate, to avoid pixilation so a 2 hour bitrate (about 5000 kb/s) might be appropriate, but on a 27 inch set a 3 hour action movie might still look fine. With a talking heads sort of movie, romantic comedies etc, one can easily stretch the length by using a lower bitrate and still maintain quality.
In the case of Xvid/Divx AVIs we have another set of circumstances and the standard bitrate recomendations/conventions no longer apply, as the quality is locked in.
When converting Xvids in ConvertXtoDVD and filling a DVD-5 blank a 3 hour movie will look every bit as good as a 2 hour movie (4.3GBs is actually overkill for 2 hour Xvids). If one is shrinking from a DVD though, the 3 hour movie might not look as good, especially if it has a lot of action.
