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I got 12GB DVD movie files. Is it possible to squeeze it to one DVD. Is there any loss of video or audio clarity; by doing this?

Thanks
MAT

umm does anyone know of a program that makes ur stink quality videos into high quality videos ?

if so plz hit me back up thnxyou

A belated reply... No you cannotput that many files /shows on a dvd. The limit isn’t set by the originalfiles size, but rather the running time. The avi files are converted to mpg2, which uses alot LESS compresion. So to keep the vid quality you could go with about 4 hrs per dvd.

As for the lines, I really need more info there. It could be an overscan issue, it could be the player itself. It could be the way the program you are using to do the conversion formats the mpg2 file and structure it outputs. Is it a pal or ntsc format? Are you going form one broadcast type to the other?

Luck,

topcat139

Yes is a reply by me to the original poster. If you have a problem post it by yourself! C-mon sense.

Posted by Marcus Aurelius?

Who are u talking to. I dont have a movie i have a japanese anime cartoon with subs. and is not for sell in the us. so i hope u not talking to me

I think HD is 1080 but who cares? For me look like a classical full screen/wide screen problem.If your original file is 4:3 and you try to convert it in 16:9 or the other way around the image looks stretch and you loose something. Most of the file we download are not originals so take the file the way is given to you by uploader and don’t complain about black bars, finally is free.If you want quality and you like the movie buy it.And most of these tv shows lately came in HD so one more reason to keep it the way it is.

and about the seting up the TV set. when i take a dvd movie to my familys house or to a friend i dont have to set there tv to notting everything just works just fine so how come this dvd cant do that same when i make it

Damn i have the same problem as you witht he over scan. it would be nice if u can explain that in Barney style. because i didnt understand. or a way to do it ( a program or something io can use to do this. thank you

Hey Topcat139, you seem to know your stuff, yeah! Maybe you can help me with this problem: I bought DVD Squeeze about a year ago, worked great. Then suddenly, now it won’t convert for more than 22 Mb and stops. I have no idea why, and can’t reinstall it because when I converted from Windows 2000 to Windows XP Media Center Edition, I seem to have lost that unzipped file, drat. Any ideas, suggestions, etc.?

Oh, and thanks for the tip about TMPGEnc 3.0 Express, I’m going to try that. Still want my DVD Squeeze to work though.

Quality of the video has absolutely nothingto do with overscan.
You displasy setup is the issue, not the video. The display differs with the card outputting to it. What type of tv is it, what type of vid card?, what connectors are you using to output the video? What is your resolution set to?

Once you have the tv display set correctly with the overscan compensated for, then you can begin to setup your encodes to fit. The vids you make can be any multiple of 8, to scale correctly.
TV in the US (ntsc format) runs in the digital domain at 480 for standard res, 720 for enhanced res, and lastly 1180 for High Def.
The problem is that the outermost lines are not displayed by tv sets. You have to set your vid card to compensate for the different display technologies involved.

For the vids to fit on the DVD you need to calculate the bitrates to fit on the disk. Not that simple. The initialsize of the file in it’s compressed format is meaningless in terms of calculating waht will fit on a dvd.
Certainly I can squeeze up to 12 hrs. on a single DVD, but it looks like crap.
Try out Tmpgenc express 3, it has a wizard that approximates the file size for you, while attempting to maintain useful vid quality. It also has a quite high quality mpeg2 encoder as well. Most of the quickie apps out there use rather cheap and quick encoders. If you want encoding speed, then give up vid quality, if you want quality, then give up speed.

Figure that at the most you real;ly don’t want tonput more than perhaps 4 hours on a DVD. More than that and the vid quality will suffer.
Remember that the files you have are compressed with lossy compression, and to encode to DVD, they need to be DEcompressed to be recompressed into an mpeg2 file for the DVD. There can be alot more added loss of vid quality there if you want to squeeze alot more than really should go on a disk.


luck.

topcat139