[ale] Why is my DVD image so big?

[James Sumners]

Do you have animated menus?

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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