Does anyone have a rule of thumb regarding when to split a DVD-9 to two DVD-5 discs? I sometimes want it all: menus, extras, picture quality. Sometimes that means I'll settle for the inconvenience of spreading the movie over 2 discs. I haven't established it as a rule of thumb but if a disc has extras that I want (usually audio commentary) and it's 7.5+ I've been spreading it over two discs. Have others come up with a "magic" number or method for deciding when it's worthwhile splitting? Thanks, Bob
Take a look at this comprehensive guide which tells you roughly when you should be splitting onto two discs, and when you'll get away with it on the one. Hope it helps http://www.geocities.com/daseamonkey420
wassup.. i would suggest splitting it if your scalefactor in dvdr calc is under 65%. what i do is i trancode the video for 5 minutes, then cancel it and then view the m2v file in tmpg or any other m2v editing program and determine if the quality is up to par or not... but lately i've been getting lazy and just bought dvd2one and use that... hope that helps peace seamonkey420
Don't split it... compress it, with DVD2One v1.11 or higher. You will have everything (menues and all) on one DVD5... quality is still excellent. sirmugen
