[ale] Why is my DVD image so big?

[James Sumners]

I suspect you are using a bitrate that is too high.
http://www.signvideo.com/bt-rts.htm

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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-- 
James Sumners
http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."

Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
CH:D 59