How to fit 25 episodes on one Dvd

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  1. TEARLEZZ

    TEARLEZZ Member

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    Hi i have one question is it possible to fit 25 episodes on one dvd? each episodes is less than 30 minutes.The folder where i have the 25 episodes says that it over 4.26 GB.Any help would be great if there is a guide and software how to do this let me know please thanks in advanced.
     
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    celtic_d Regular member

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    If it is under 4.38GB's then it will fit, that is unless you mean DVD Video. In such a case it will probably need converting, increasing the filesize considerably. Even at 1/4res with 25x30mins one DVD would not be enough.

    Errr, wait a minute, you didn't specify that it had to be single layer, so at 1/4 res you could fit 25 30min eps on one DVD as DVD video.
     
  3. vurbal

    vurbal Administrator Staff Member

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    Actually it is possible, just not advisable. When my brother was in Afghanistan (where they have no IP law whatsoever) he bought quite a few TV series DVDs, including entire seasons of The Simpsons (22 episodes) on a single DVD-9. The quality is lower than SVCD since they're encoded at such a low bitrate (at full D1 resolution), and if you put 25 on a DVD-5 it would be even worse (in fact I wouldn't try it without lowering the resolution to 352x240/288).
     
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    celtic_d Regular member

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    Using VCD bitrates you can get ~7.5 hours on a DVD5. I would not recommend using lower than VCD bitrates, therefor I wouldn't try and fit 12.5 hours onto one DVD5 although I guess using KVCD or some other low bitrate matrix you might get something almost watchable.
     
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    I think almost watchable is a pretty accurate description of what you'd end up with.
     
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    The Half D1 KDVD template (with tmpgenc) will get you up to 16 hours per dvdr. About VHS quality.
     
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