Posted by Biz on 01/02/06 20:58

You might as well go back to VHS. One full length movie to each single
layer dvd, anything more is unwatchable on anything but a small tv...not
even worth the effort....

"Steve" <stek1961NO@SPAMmac.com> wrote in message
news:2006010214082316807%stek1961NO@SPAMmaccom...
> I want to put two (or three!) of my favourite movies onto a single DVD
> for ease of watching, I have encoded them into DiVx as follows:
>
> Video: DixV 6, 720 x 352 23.98fps
> Audio: MPEG3, Stereo 48000Hz
>
> Each file is around 700mb and about 2hrs each in viewing time.
>
> Now I know I've lost quality encoding them, and will most likely lose a
> bit more recoding back to DVD, but assuming my software encodes them
> automatically, reducing them to fit on a single DVD-R, how many, as a
> rule of thumb, should I be attempting to fit on one DVD-R with reducing
> the quality even more?
>
> I think three is pushing it, but maybe two is as well!!
>
> Any advice?
>
> Steve
>
> PS I do have standalone DivX player but I've retired it because of too
> many remotes syndrome and the fact my DVD player is also my home cinema
> amp!
>
>

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