OK, to start I have been burning various dvd's for a while and have the basics down but I went out and bought the Family Guy DVD Sets and they have like 6 hours of video compressed onto each disk!!
THEN I went to a friends house and they had a home made copy of Invader Zim Season 1 and had ALL of season 1 on ONE DVD that played in a DVD Player that is a couple of years old.
HOW do I compress video into a format that both fits HOURS and HOURS of video one 1 disk AND that disk is able to play on ANY DVD Player in America???
They have a little add at the very end of the last episode of Family Guy on each disk giving a Company Name for the people and it talks about Compression but I lent out the set so I can't check to see what it says...
I KNOW this is possible but I just can't figure out how to do it!
Thanks for any help you can provide because I have a TON of anime and SciFi Series that I purchased that only have like 2 episodes per disk and I would practicly KILL to have 1 disk per season!
You could dwnld DVD Shrink from this site. That'll do it. It has a guide for you to follow as well. Simply put, open DVD Shrink, click reauthor. For each season, simply drag the main movie titles into the main window to reauthor. It will ask you to name your file; example: MySeason1 or whatever you like, as long as you recognize when it's time to burn. Shrink will analyze and encode it, then you simply pull the file up with burning software you're using and burn it. One thing you should know is that the more you compress a movie the worse the video quality will be. So be aware of that. Click the link on my sig from bbmayo and you'll find all you need.
Well that is the thing...I keep hearing that if I do it the standard way the quality is REALLY bad...
I will try this way since that seems to be the standard method but I REALLY want to know how the people that did the Family Guy DVD's compressed 6 hours of Family Guy onto each disk without ANY loss of quality at all!
Thank you for the advice and once I figure out how the Family Guy peeps did it I will spread the word to every corner of the globe!
Well this forum is kind of old but if you are still checking it .... if you have a recorder that you hook up to your tv - set your setting for 6hrs and do each disk in the order you want. Thenfinalize the disk when you are done. No quality lost that way. You can make your own menu/title screen in its settings.
Quote:OK, to start I have been burning various dvd's for a while and have the basics down but I went out and bought the Family Guy DVD Sets and they have like 6 hours of video compressed onto each disk!!
You can't really make comparisons to a commercial disc unless you're using dual layer blanks. That's only equivalent to putting about 3 hrs of video on a regular DVD-R, which is fairly easy.
Quote:THEN I went to a friends house and they had a home made copy of Invader Zim Season 1 and had ALL of season 1 on ONE DVD that played in a DVD Player that is a couple of years old.
This is a little more difficult, but if you resize to Half D1 (352x480/576) or SIF (352x240/288) and re-encode with a good MPEG encoder (I recommend CCE, ProCoder, MainConcept, TMPGEnc, or HC - the last one is free but beta) you can get a lot of video on a single DVD-5.
You can make a KDVD (about 6 - 10 hours on 1 dvd), just use the templates in the link below in TMPGEnc, then put it into a authoring tool.
I personally use acp To convert the files to vcd's then load them into the program DVD-lab PRO & then add menu's & so on, usually can fit about 5 - 6 full movies on each disk.
