I'm using Nerovision 4.x to encode and burn some Band of Brothers recordings to DVD. I was trying to fit two episodes on one DVD, IN this particular example, one is 1:03 and the other is 0:57 (hours:minutes).
In high quality, standard and long play and extended play modes, it is too big for the DVD (looks like about 5GB). But when I set it to the next one (Super Long Play), it goes down to about 1.5GB.
Why does it not change any at the other settings?
It doesn't necessarily need to. It depends on the amount of data you are starting with, the type of compression used, and the quality you want to end up at.
How do ya'll handle this type of thing? Do I need to set it to custom and muck around? If so, what settings for a recorded show off of cable?
Also, do any of you know what lengths of time the individual settings should get me in terms of recording length?
Thanks,
Bobby
I don't use Nero for this but If you are using a dedicated encoder like TMPenc you would re-encode the files as DVD quality, but specify what display size and percentage of the DVD you want it to be. For example, I recorded King Kong from Pay per View at DVD quality which created a file that was 5,462,179,840 MB. I then I re-encoded it at 720X480 29.97fps 48kHz 2channel to fit 100% on a DVD, or a file of 4.08GB.
If you have two files that are identical, and you want them to fit on a single DVD you would encode each of them to be 50 percent of the DVD and so on.
