[ale] Why is my DVD image so big?

[Michael Hirsch]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 7:27 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> Do you have animated menus?

Nope, just a single image for the main menu with a single "PLAY"
button and no background music.  I'd like to put in a chapter menu,
but haven't gotten around to it, yet.

Michael

> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I spent this weekend trying to put chapters in a DVD someone gave me.
>> I'm hoping someone else has already made the same stupid error I must
>> be making and can set me straight.
>>
>> The original DVD was just one big movie with no chapters which made it
>> really annoying to watch something in the middle of it.  So I ripped
>> the DVD, edited it into chapters with kino, then used qdvdauthor to
>> create the new DVD.
>>
>> It all seemed fairly straightforward, if a bit tedious, until I was
>> unable to create an image that would fit on the DVD.  I kept making
>> the compression higher and higher and leaving out chapters.  Finally,
>> I looked at the resulting mpeg files that qdvdauthor creates before
>> building the .iso image.  I have less than 2 gig of movies.  Those are
>> the final, transcoded mpeg2 images that should translate almost
>> directly into the VOB files.  So where is all the extra space coming
>> from?  Somehow those 2 gig of mpegs is turning into 5 gig of DVD.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Michael
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