Burning DVDs

[Darth McBain]

Do any of you have any experience burning DVDs? I am trying with some limited success, but it seems like I can only fit about an hour's worth of video onto a disk. As commercial disks can fit about 3-4 hours of high-quality video, I wonder am I doing something wrong?

I'm trying to create DVDs of some of my old home VHS tapes. I'm using Sonic MyDVD as my burning application and Windows Movie Maker as my video capture app. I rigged my VCR to play the movies through my video camera and then piped the stream into my PC. I was able to capture the video fine. I had 4 half-hour .WMV clips for about 2 hours worth of video. In creating the DVD, though, I could only fit 2 of those clips onto the DVD before Sonic complained that I was attempting to write more than the disk could hold. I then went back and tried saving those clips at a lower bitrate, but that didn't really make much difference.

Any ideas as to how to store more than an hour's worth of video on a disk? Thanks for any advice or suggestions you have...

[Figrin D'an]

Sounds like a compression issue. You might want to try converting the movies files into a different format. I'm far from an expert, however. You might want to talk to Visc... he's got quite a bit of experience in video capture/editing.

[Morgan Evanar]

Viscera is your man for this.

[Darth Viscera]

http://www.doom9.org/guides.htm
http://forum.doom9.org/
http://www.videohelp.com/guides

All the info about this stuff you could ever need. I used those sites to figure out video encoding myself. The guides are very comprehensive.

[Darth McBain]

Thanks for the pointers - I browsed through them and got a couple ideas that I might try when I get a few minutes.