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| Butters |
| Posted: Apr 27 2007, 12:11 AM |
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There's something that has been struggling my mind for days and I'm hoping you can help me with this. This is not directly related to VirtualDub, but it was one of the tools used here.
I have all 153 episodes of Dragon Ball and I want to fit them in a single 4.7 GB single layer DVD. The technique here is to encode them with a very low bitrate. I know it will potentially reduce the image quality, but that doesn't bother me since my goal is not quality, but to fit all 153 episodes in the DVD. I'm totally sure this is possible, because a friend of mine borrowed me a Dragon Ball Z DVD containing the Buu's saga, which I believe it contained about 35 hours of video (yeah, it was a single layer 4.7 GB DVD).
Since I cannot edit .rm files directly, I've converted them as .avi so I can manipulate them with VirtualDub. I adjust the brightness, contrast and remove commercials and other unnecessary stuff. This is their current format:
Video:
- 320x240 at 15 FPS (which will be converted to 352x240 at 23.97 FPS when making a DVD).
Audio:
- 32 KHz and 64 kbps mono(it will be kept that way).
The big issue here is the video bitrate. When I'm trying to make a DVD, the application won't let me select a bitrate lower than 1600 kbps. In other words, I want to make a non-standard DVD. I've tried a lot of them: Nero Vision, DVD Flick, Avi2DVD, etc, but all of them stick to the standards. If there's a DVD authoring application which lets me make a non-standard DVD, please, let me know. It doesn't matter if the application is freeware or shareware, I can manage.
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| phaeron |
| Posted: Apr 27 2007, 03:41 AM |
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Hopefully an expert will chime in on this, but I wouldn't be surprised if the 1600kbps lower limit was imposed due to characteristics of DVD drives. There's a lower limit to the speed at which an optical disc drive can read; beyond that, it has to periodically stop and wait for the disc to spin around again, which disrupts the smooth stream of data. Some standalone players are just computers connected to DVD-ROM drives and won't care, but there's probably at least one player out there that does.
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| The_ZoRo |
| Posted: Apr 27 2007, 09:25 AM |
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Do you want to play them on a standalone DVD player or only have them as a back up on the DVD?
DVDrebuilder ( http://dvd-rb.dvd2go.org/ ) should be able to do what you want to do, btw.
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| Butters |
| Posted: Apr 27 2007, 01:15 PM |
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I want to play it on a DVD player, the one you connect to the TV. |
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