[MacDV] Re: More than 90 minutes

[Brent Radbourne]

If your video is in the VIDEO_TS format, it doesn't matter what the 
length is.  You can use DVD2onex to compress it to the 4.4 gig size.  
I've compressed VIDEO_TS movies of almost 3 hours down to 4.4 gig and 
save them to dvd.


On Tuesday, December 9, 2003, at 02:49  PM, Michael Winter wrote:

>
> On Dec 9, 2003, at 12:53 PM, Brent Radbourne wrote:
>
>> You're getting too complicated.   Simply, the capacity of a blank dvd 
>> is 4.4 gig.
>
> Which is how many minutes and seconds of video max?
>
> I was just trying to be a little more precise. I don't know if that 
> 4.4 GB is 4.36, 4.40 or 4.44 GB. That's the difference between 91 
> minutes working (which someone else reported) and my 94 minutes not 
> working. The bottom line is that based on the descriptions in Toast 6, 
> i thought it should be able to fit any length of video on a DVD 
> (within reason) by changing the encoding settings. In reality, it 
> seems to mean it will change the encoding settings to use the entire 
> 4.4 GB, as long as the video isn't over 90 minutes (or 91 min 27 sec 
> to be more precise).
>
> Besides, if I have to trim it down, there's a big difference between 
> trimming 2.5 min and 4 and I don't want to have to keep going back to 
> Toast to try it every time I shave off a few seconds.
>
> -Mike
>
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