On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 06:23:43 +0800, Christopher SJ Ong <osj at mac.com> wrote: >My thanks to everyone who has replied to my query about burning DVDs >longer than 90 minutes. I guess I will just burn two DVDs, as advised. > >I wish Apple would remove the 90 minute limit. I know they have reasons >- commercial (to get people to buy DVD Studio Pro) and ease of use (to >avoid having users messing with compression levels and bitrates, etc), >but it is rather ridiculous that my alternative is to stump out a huge >amount of money for DVD Studio Pro. It's especially frustrating that >the content I'm most interested in archiving - soccer matches - is just >a few minutes longer than 90 minutes... > >One last question : what about double-sided DVDs? I could at least >archive my content on ONE double-sided DVD if those work well, although >I would still have to get up and flip the DVD over! Hmmm. If it is just a few minutes longer than 90 minutes, you could try speeding it up a bit so that it would come in at under 90 minutes. A small percentage speed-up probably wouldn't be noticeable. -- Gordon Alley <*> <mailto:galley at texas.net> <http://galley.home.texas.net>