Home made DVDs

How come the store bought versions of series like ST: VOY has four 42
minutes episodes on each DVD and Stargate SG1 has 4-5 42 minutes
episodes on each DVD, butr when I capture an hour program from VHS,
edit out the commercials to approximately 40 minutes of content, the
MPEG2 file is almost 2G, which will only allow me 2 episodes per DVD?

Joe Cool

You need to recode it at a lower quality in order to fit more episodes
on a single disc.

On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 23:51:39 GMT, Joe Cool <> wrote:

>How come the store bought versions of series like ST: VOY has four 42
>minutes episodes on each DVD and Stargate SG1 has 4-5 42 minutes
>episodes on each DVD, butr when I capture an hour program from VHS,
>edit out the commercials to approximately 40 minutes of content, the
>MPEG2 file is almost 2G, which will only allow me 2 episodes per DVD?

The Video Poker King

"Joe Cool" <> wrote in message
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> How come the store bought versions of series like ST: VOY has four 42
> minutes episodes on each DVD and Stargate SG1 has 4-5 42 minutes
> episodes on each DVD, butr when I capture an hour program from VHS,
> edit out the commercials to approximately 40 minutes of content, the
> MPEG2 file is almost 2G, which will only allow me 2 episodes per DVD?

The store bought ones are dual layer with over 8Gb of available space

>

Gilgamesh

On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 16:59:12 -0700, The Video Poker King
<> wrote:

>You need to recode it at a lower quality in order to fit more episodes
>on a single disc.

The capture software Ia m using, Pinnacle Studio 9 Plus, has three
capture qualities, good, better and best. But the final mpeg2 file
generated is the same size regardless of which capture quality I use.

>
>On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 23:51:39 GMT, Joe Cool <> wrote:
>
>>How come the store bought versions of series like ST: VOY has four 42
>>minutes episodes on each DVD and Stargate SG1 has 4-5 42 minutes
>>episodes on each DVD, butr when I capture an hour program from VHS,
>>edit out the commercials to approximately 40 minutes of content, the
>>MPEG2 file is almost 2G, which will only allow me 2 episodes per DVD?

Joe Cool

On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 09:44:53 +0930, "Gilgamesh" <>
wrote:

>"Joe Cool" <> wrote in message
>news:.. .
>> How come the store bought versions of series like ST: VOY has four 42
>> minutes episodes on each DVD and Stargate SG1 has 4-5 42 minutes
>> episodes on each DVD, butr when I capture an hour program from VHS,
>> edit out the commercials to approximately 40 minutes of content, the
>> MPEG2 file is almost 2G, which will only allow me 2 episodes per DVD?
>
>The store bought ones are dual layer with over 8Gb of available space

And I take it my NEC DVD burner can't burn a dual layer 8G DVD? Hell,
I've never seen blanks for them at the store, are those available only
for comericial DVD mastering houses?

Joe Cool

Commercial releases arent burned anyway, they are pressed...You can buy
recordable DL(dual layer) just about anywhere these days for a DL capable
burner, which many are now.

"Joe Cool" <> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 09:44:53 +0930, "Gilgamesh" <>
> wrote:
>
> >"Joe Cool" <> wrote in message
> >news:.. .
> >> How come the store bought versions of series like ST: VOY has four 42
> >> minutes episodes on each DVD and Stargate SG1 has 4-5 42 minutes
> >> episodes on each DVD, butr when I capture an hour program from VHS,
> >> edit out the commercials to approximately 40 minutes of content, the
> >> MPEG2 file is almost 2G, which will only allow me 2 episodes per DVD?
> >
> >The store bought ones are dual layer with over 8Gb of available space
>
> And I take it my NEC DVD burner can't burn a dual layer 8G DVD? Hell,
> I've never seen blanks for them at the store, are those available only
> for comericial DVD mastering houses?
>

Biz

"Biz" <> wrote in message
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> Commercial releases arent burned anyway, they are pressed...You can buy
> recordable DL(dual layer) just about anywhere these days for a DL capable
> burner, which many are now.

And you can revel in how the premium dual layer recordables only work in
less than half the stand alone players. I even wrote one that would not
read back on the writer itself!

It is a worthless medium doomed to failure.

Alpha

"Alpha" <> wrote in message
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>
> "Biz" <> wrote in message
> news:yQlte.338632$...
>> Commercial releases arent burned anyway, they are pressed...You can buy
>> recordable DL(dual layer) just about anywhere these days for a DL capable
>> burner, which many are now.
>
> And you can revel in how the premium dual layer recordables only work in
> less than half the stand alone players. I even wrote one that would not
> read back on the writer itself!
>
> It is a worthless medium doomed to failure.
>
>

....at least untill the blank mediums drop in price. As is the cost to burn
runs

SL backup disc
Blank .50-$1.00
Borrowed or Rented disc 3.99 (maybe more but if netflix way cheaper)
DVDShrink Free (If you want the Movie to be uncompressed can reauthor movie
only)
Will play on most players & you have a copy for tween $.50-$5 max

DL Backup disc
Blank $9 -$11
Rented disc 3.99
Currently iffy to play on many systems and not all DL burners can do both
+/_ DL's
(Since New Movies pressed run $14.99-$20 its not a value at this time to
burn DL IMHO)

Bratboy

Why do you have a rental disk price in there? Making copies of disks you do
not own is in no way right or legal. In fact, only lowly scum even consider
it.


"Bratboy" <> wrote in message
news:42b6c6df$0$66998$. com...
>
> "Alpha" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> >
> > "Biz" <> wrote in message
> > news:yQlte.338632$...
> >> Commercial releases arent burned anyway, they are pressed...You can buy
> >> recordable DL(dual layer) just about anywhere these days for a DL
capable
> >> burner, which many are now.
> >
> > And you can revel in how the premium dual layer recordables only work in
> > less than half the stand alone players. I even wrote one that would not
> > read back on the writer itself!
> >
> > It is a worthless medium doomed to failure.
> >
> >
>
> ...at least untill the blank mediums drop in price. As is the cost to burn
> runs
>
> SL backup disc
> Blank .50-$1.00
> Borrowed or Rented disc 3.99 (maybe more but if netflix way cheaper)
> DVDShrink Free (If you want the Movie to be uncompressed can reauthor
movie
> only)
> Will play on most players & you have a copy for tween $.50-$5 max
>
> DL Backup disc
> Blank $9 -$11
> Rented disc 3.99
> Currently iffy to play on many systems and not all DL burners can do both
> +/_ DL's
> (Since New Movies pressed run $14.99-$20 its not a value at this time to
> burn DL IMHO)
>
>

Biz

> "Bratboy" <> wrote in message
> news:42b6c6df$0$66998$. com...
>>
>> "Alpha" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>> >
>> > "Biz" <> wrote in message
>> > news:yQlte.338632$...
>> >> Commercial releases arent burned anyway, they are pressed...You can buy
>> >> recordable DL(dual layer) just about anywhere these days for a DL
> capable
>> >> burner, which many are now.
>> >
>> > And you can revel in how the premium dual layer recordables only work in
>> > less than half the stand alone players. I even wrote one that would not
>> > read back on the writer itself!
>> >
>> > It is a worthless medium doomed to failure.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> ...at least untill the blank mediums drop in price. As is the cost to burn
>> runs
>>
>> SL backup disc
>> Blank .50-$1.00
>> Borrowed or Rented disc 3.99 (maybe more but if netflix way cheaper)
>> DVDShrink Free (If you want the Movie to be uncompressed can reauthor
> movie
>> only)
>> Will play on most players & you have a copy for tween $.50-$5 max
>>
>> DL Backup disc
>> Blank $9 -$11
>> Rented disc 3.99
>> Currently iffy to play on many systems and not all DL burners can do both
>> +/_ DL's
>> (Since New Movies pressed run $14.99-$20 its not a value at this time to
>> burn DL IMHO)
>>

top post fixed.


Biz wrote on [Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:11:15 GMT]:
> Why do you have a rental disk price in there? Making copies of disks you do
> not own is in no way right or legal. In fact, only lowly scum even consider
> it.

Because the OP is a thief. Why else?

Justin