Posted by dgates on 11/15/35 11:55

On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 01:06:49 +0100, "Timmy2000" <none@nothere.com>
wrote:

>
>"Ken Maltby" <kmaltby@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
>news:79OdnXLIZb-D9EPZnZ2dnUVZ_r-dnZ2d@giganews.com...
>>
>> "Timmy2000" <none@nothere.com> wrote in message
>> news:eblfi7$fqj$1@news.freedom2surf.net...
>>> Okay - I'm downloading a season of a well known TV series, that's not
>>> currently on DVD.
>>>
>>> There are 27 Episodes, AVI format and all about 113mb each.
>>>
>>> I'll convert them to DVD using ConvertXtoDVD, but what I'd like to know
>>> is, how many episodes to put on each DVD? What's the optimum amount
>>> before compression starts kicking in again to fit a DVD5?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Dave
>>
>> Rather than trying to deal with the effects of going from
>> a highly compressed DivX or XviD to another compressed
>> format, you should consider a player that can play these "AVI"
>> files, as they are.
>>
>No ken, I don't want to do that. I don't want to buy another player I would
>have done so, if I could afford it. I'm unemployed.
>
>I want to create DVD's. Do you have an answer?


I don't have an answer for that, but I wanted to give a second shout
out to "a player that can play these 'AVI' files."

I bought the Philips 642 player for $50 and have been very happy with
the results.

At one point, I tried comparing a disc with two 1-hour episodes of a
series burned as a DVD movie (with Sonic LE, I'll admit) to a disc
with thirteen 1-hour episodes stored in their original AVI format.

1. The AVIs looked much better.
2. It took almost zero time compared to converting.
3. I did it on a DVD+RW so I could reuse the disc.
4. And the whole thing only cost $50. (Well, maybe $60.)


Just FYI.

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