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Posted 02/06/2008 18:06:31


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I have 13 football matches on DVD, each one is on two discs (the small 1.4GB DVDs) and are approximately 40 minutes per match. They are filmed in widescreen at 576i - I think.

I want to put them all on a single DVD (dual layer if I have to) and want to know the best free method of re-encoding the files to about 350MB each (4.7GB/13) which I make to be about 1.2Mbps for both audio and video. I'm sure this is possible.

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Posted 02/06/2008 18:22:48


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Are they in MPEG-2? If so, trying to squash them down to 1.2Mbps is going to be a struggle. Even Freeview typically runs at around twice that.

MPEG-4 is perfectly happy at that bitrate though. You could try converting them with Vidomi as in the MPEG-4 Encoding Race thread and see how they come out. It just depends if the player(s) you want to play it back on supports MPEG-4 or not really.

Cheers, Slipstreem.



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Posted 02/06/2008 18:52:15


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If they're only 1.4Mb in size then you should be able to merge discs three onto a single layer DVD unless they've used every inch of space, and six on dual layer. You could compress them more, but the quality will suffer. The alternative is to convert them to DivX, which would handle all of them on a single 4.7GB disc with no dramatic loss of quality - But you'd only be able to play them back on a PC, and not a standard DVD player.
I think expecting to get 520 minutes on a DVD formated disc at any sort of quality is unrealistic.
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Posted 02/06/2008 18:56:58


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DivX = XviD = MPEG-4. That's what I was suggesting above. There are plenty of standalone DVD players that are DivX compatible, but it's by no means a widespread thing yet.

Cheers, Slipstreem.



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