Hi all,
I'm new to these forums but not the topic. Though, I could use some advice. I have some TV shows and they are all in .avi format. All eppisodes, the whole folder, totals up to about 4.07 GB. A DVD+R holds 4.7 GBs so I figured I could get all of them on the one disc. However, when I went to burn them, I used Nero Vision which automatically converts the files so they can be played on a DVD player. But it told me I could only fit 4 shows on it :( This didn't make sense to me seeings as how the whole thing doesn't even fill up a full DVD+R. I want to know if there are any other free programs I could use that would allow me to fit all the shows on the one disc, or what the best format would be to use? I need a format that will play in DVD player and shrink them up. As I said, the whole thing doesnt even fill up a full DVD so I thought I could get them on 1 disc :( I have DVD Shrink, but when I tried to put the files in it wouldn't take them. I guess because they are in .avi format? So I was thinking, I could convert the files to a format DVD Shrink wold accept, then burn with DVD Shrink? But what format would this be? Sorry this is so lengthy. PLEASE HELP. THANK YOU.
use vso"s convertxtodvd2 this is the latest version, you can convert all of your tv shows and then load them into shrink, and shrink will shrink the files down and you should be able to fit all of them on a singel sided dvd
first off..... AVI is a format for video and audio and is smaller than DVD Compliant files. soooooo if you have 4.07GB of AVI files that would be wayyyyyyyy more than a DVD5. consider that a 700MB AVI fills out a whole DVD5! or something like that ..... I know that AVI files are much smaller.... another thing to consider is the quality of converting then shrinking. DVD5s will hold about 3 hours of quality video. Sooooo add up how many total hours do those AVI files add up to? You might fit 4 hours on a DVD5 with poor quality..... choices choices choices..... but ConvertXToDVD is great for episode DVDs as it converts and then burns to disk! great program for AVIs. Most DVD5s might hold 4 or 5 45min episodes to disk. Some more if the quality of those AVIs are lower and have even a smaller footprint so when converting you get lower quality and more episodes to the disk.
I followed the advice of rdmercer. I used that program and it converted the files and I could fit the full 4.07 GB or whatever it was on the disc. It worked good. The quality wasn't bad at all either..it shows a bit blocky sometimes, if you know what I mean. But it's hardly noticable. Also, I did it at Medium, not high quality so that might fix that. And another thing, I put it through DVD Shrink after .. so that probably chopped hte quality down a bit more, because it encoded it the second time I guess. And there was really know need of it. I didn't have to run it through shrink.. XtoDVD shrunk it enough anyway. So, all in all, it came out pretty damn good. The main thing is I got it all on one disc and it plas in the DVD player. Thanks alot!
