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Rock0
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_ 		2. June 2006 @ 09:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Sometimes when i get avi files and convet to mpeg 2 it literally blows up to 4 times as big as the original was???

I dont know why it does that.... I am currently making the first season of prison break on dvd and have it in mpeg2 ready to convert to dvd and burn, but in the mpeg 2 form its 22 gigs.....

I dont know if i do convert to dvd form it will get small enough to fit on a 8.5 dl dvd... so i need help in why it is getting so big... thanks in advanced.

Also i used CucuSoft AVI to VCD DVD MPEG Creator Pro to convert avi video files to mpeg 2, and i am using TMPGEnc DVD Author 2.0 to convert to dvd form and burn.
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mistycat
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_ 		2. June 2006 @ 09:52 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Avi is just a container holding the compressed video. The conversion process is actually decompressing it. There is no way to put 22G on 1 disk, maybe 7-8 good quality 1 hour episodes on a DL disk which actually only holds 7.95G.
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Rock0
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_ 		2. June 2006 @ 10:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Damn.... I really wanted to put the 22 episodes all on one dvd.

Is there anyway to maybe make it smaller(without drastically effecting the quality, which is really good), or would you know why when i convert AVI to mpeg2 it quadruples the size??!? This sometimes happens, but not usually.
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mistycat
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_ 		2. June 2006 @ 10:36 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I know of no way to make 22G fit on 1 DL DVD and maintain any kind of quality. Maybe, burn as data before they are converted, assuming they are around 350 MB. I am not familar with converting to MPEG-2 but I would guess that my explanation, above, holds true.
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Rock0
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_ 		2. June 2006 @ 11:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Ya i've have done this before, but what do you mean make into data? I want it video files playable on dvd players. And when i d/led the episodes, each were around 350 mb(which all totaled 7.5 gigs).

I don't want to fit the all the 22 gigs on the DL dvd; i want to know of a program to compress it to fit on DL dvd wihtout losing to much of the quality.

And i dont know if anyone else knows why when i convert AVI to MPEG2 it quadruples the size?
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mistycat
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_ 		2. June 2006 @ 11:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
A program like Nero Express will burn the files as data to view on your pc but unless you have a player capable of playing DIVX (I think), they won't play on your standalone. As for compressing your files I don't use it but look into DVD Shrink. I have no idea why your files quadruple in size but here are couple of explanations:http://dvd-hq.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=313&sid=3caa9b6851de3310... and question 10 in the faq:http://www.avi-to-dvd.com/
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