[ale] Why is my DVD image so big?

[Michael Hirsch]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:56 AM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> I suspect you are using a bitrate that is too high.
> http://www.signvideo.com/bt-rts.htm

The transcoded mpegs are only 2 gig.  qvdauthor puts the transcoded
movies on the filesystem so you can look at them and they just aren't
big.  At least, that's what I think is happening.  It's very strange.

Michael

> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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> pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
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