2 hour movie on one disk

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Alf
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Is it possible to put a 2 hour movie on one 4.7gb disk?

johnpr98
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Yes but your video quality will go down, commercial Hollywood DVD's are often dual layer, hence twice the room.

I'm archiving some VHS at the moment at 3400 for 3+ hours

5 to 6000 is better though

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SIFI
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My bitrate calculator says that a bitrate of 4861 will allow 120 minutes on a single 4.7gb disc.

To be safe I would reduce that rate to 4750 just to be sure.

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Simon

johnpr98
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Another benchmark

Ulead Media Studio Pro 7, AC-3 (Typo edited from AC-2, Thanks Ruffkut ) audio, 2 hours 12 mins at 4900 VBR

Video usually ends up at 4.27GB allowing 1.7GB for menus etc, although the final DVD ends up at 4.3GB.

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RuffKut
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John, what's AC-2 Audio ? Do you mean MPEG2, or AC-3 ?

rongrover
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To do this use DVD Decrypter and DVD20ne and than burn with what ever you use. ( copy to DVD works straight from DVD2one.

If you start of looking at www.dvddecrypter.com you will find a great deal of information and this programme is free. There are trials for the others but really it is best to purchase them, they are not expensive. It is worth a look.

All the best, Ron.