I am full up to the gills with reading and trying and transcoding. Since having kids 3 years ago I haven't played around with the PC much (used to a lot) but it looks like I missed the "rip DVD's and transcode" revolution. There's a truckload to learn!
Well, I now have 4 coasters and a succesful burn (yippee!). I have been trying MyVideos which to be fair to reven is pretty damn good, it's just my own inexperience that hasn't got me to actually perform the final step and burn a DVD with it yet, it got all the way to making the DVD's IFO and VOB files then stopped as (a) it was still slightly too big for a DVD and (b) the first time I ran out of disk space and got an ugly exit.
So my questions are all related ot a 2 hour show which I'm trying to squeeze onto a DVD5. I tried both my MyVideosRC3 and ConvertXtoDVD. I used ConvertXDVD (Trial, it is quite good, I had previously tried the free XVIDtoDVD version too) as although MyVideos worked well, it doesn't have auto-shrink (you need to make sure the thing will fit on a 2GB). Bearing in mind that:
1. A 0.9GB Xvid file of a show took 9hrs to to author a DVD and burn it, using ConvertXtoDVD.
2. A 5GB MPEG2 file of the same show took just 4hrs to author a DVD (but not burn it, although that step is very quick) using MyVideos.
3. A 5GB MPEG2 file of the same show took 6hrs to author the DVD (but not burn it, although that step is very quick) using ConvertXtoDVD. I didn't burn it as I was testing ConvertXtoDVD which has a watermark.
ConvertXtoDVD can shrink it automatically, so I guess that takes time too.
Q1. Presumably a 2 hour show does not fit on a DVD which has "120mins" stamped on it as there are simply many many different quality settings in GBPVR and by reducing the MPEG quality settings I can get it to fit? Would it possible to have GBPVR's default quality setting for high quality encoded by a PVR-150 to be just high enough to fit on a DVD5 disk?
Q2. Why did the 5GB MPEG2 file take less time to convert to DVD than the 1/5 size (0.9GB) XVID file? Is XVID encoding so complicated that it takes that long to convert it to a DVD.
Q3. I'm trying to send these shows to a friend. If he has a DVD Player than can play XVID/DIVX natively, can I just simply burn a (or even 4) 0.9GB file(s) onto a DVD and say here you go, play these, as that will be much faster than making a DVD, either from MPEG2 or XVID. Of course the transcoding from MPEG2 to XVID takes a wee while, but not that long. Do DVD players (not PC ones) recognize different files and ask which ones fo you want to play?
Q4. How much faster can I expect a "modern day CPU" to perform these tasks? Clearly 9 hours is a bane if I intend to do this on a regular basis.
Ta!
k.
Well, I now have 4 coasters and a succesful burn (yippee!). I have been trying MyVideos which to be fair to reven is pretty damn good, it's just my own inexperience that hasn't got me to actually perform the final step and burn a DVD with it yet, it got all the way to making the DVD's IFO and VOB files then stopped as (a) it was still slightly too big for a DVD and (b) the first time I ran out of disk space and got an ugly exit.
So my questions are all related ot a 2 hour show which I'm trying to squeeze onto a DVD5. I tried both my MyVideosRC3 and ConvertXtoDVD. I used ConvertXDVD (Trial, it is quite good, I had previously tried the free XVIDtoDVD version too) as although MyVideos worked well, it doesn't have auto-shrink (you need to make sure the thing will fit on a 2GB). Bearing in mind that:
1. A 0.9GB Xvid file of a show took 9hrs to to author a DVD and burn it, using ConvertXtoDVD.
2. A 5GB MPEG2 file of the same show took just 4hrs to author a DVD (but not burn it, although that step is very quick) using MyVideos.
3. A 5GB MPEG2 file of the same show took 6hrs to author the DVD (but not burn it, although that step is very quick) using ConvertXtoDVD. I didn't burn it as I was testing ConvertXtoDVD which has a watermark.
ConvertXtoDVD can shrink it automatically, so I guess that takes time too.
Q1. Presumably a 2 hour show does not fit on a DVD which has "120mins" stamped on it as there are simply many many different quality settings in GBPVR and by reducing the MPEG quality settings I can get it to fit? Would it possible to have GBPVR's default quality setting for high quality encoded by a PVR-150 to be just high enough to fit on a DVD5 disk?
Q2. Why did the 5GB MPEG2 file take less time to convert to DVD than the 1/5 size (0.9GB) XVID file? Is XVID encoding so complicated that it takes that long to convert it to a DVD.
Q3. I'm trying to send these shows to a friend. If he has a DVD Player than can play XVID/DIVX natively, can I just simply burn a (or even 4) 0.9GB file(s) onto a DVD and say here you go, play these, as that will be much faster than making a DVD, either from MPEG2 or XVID. Of course the transcoding from MPEG2 to XVID takes a wee while, but not that long. Do DVD players (not PC ones) recognize different files and ask which ones fo you want to play?
Q4. How much faster can I expect a "modern day CPU" to perform these tasks? Clearly 9 hours is a bane if I intend to do this on a regular basis.
Ta!
k.
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