video file size

[jack]

On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 20:03 -0500, James Takac wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 December 2007 10:33:31 jack wrote:
> > I have an avi that is 695Mb and (according to the dvd burner
> software)
> > will occupy 47% of a 4,7Gb dvd.
> > I have another avi that is 698Mb and (according to the dvd burner
> > software) will occupy 110% of a 4.7Gb dvd.
> >
> > Is this possible? I really don't get it. Anyone know why this could
> be
> > true ?
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Jack
> 
> Yes it's possible. You're obviously converting to dvd format (or
> rather the
> software is doing this for you) which involves recoding the files
> according
> to the quality that's been chosen. A full dvd quality encode is done
> something like 8000 KB per sec. Lower qualities being done at lower
> rates
> (6000, 4000, 2000, etc) depending upon the quality you want. Which
> software
> are you using to burn it? There might be an option to lower the video
> rate
> for the encoding resulting in something fitting the dvd. On top of
> that I'd
> suggest burning at the slowest speed your burner supports to get the
> best
> burn
> 
> James
James~
Good Call! I dropped the video rate to 4000kb/s and it occupies 92% ...
I'm coding one up to see how it looks - hopefully it won't be too bad.
I've done a couple at 5,001 and they look pretty decent, so maybe this
will also work...

Jack