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Old 12-23-2003, 03:42 AM   #1
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OK... how do these things work?

For example, if I have a bunch of Seinfeld episodes downloaded to my comp in AVI format or whatever, could I burn them onto a DVD and watch them in a DVD player?

And how much do they go for these days anyway
 
Old 12-23-2003, 04:23 AM   #2
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i dunno man... Maybe you should talk to Sadio8 or Penner
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Old 12-23-2003, 08:56 AM   #3
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hhhhhmm is really depends on the dvd player you got. http://www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdplayers

go to that link and type in your dvd player: The company that made your dvd player and the model number. I don't personally have a dvd player but to my knowledge if you do burn an avi file on a dvd-rw it should play it on. Plus even if you burn a .avi file on a dvd-rw and it doesn't work it doesn't really matter cause the dvd is a re-writeable dvd, so as a result you can record on it and erase it as many times as you want. Mind you if it doesn't work i would convert the avi files you have to vcd and then burn.
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AVI will definatly have to converted to a dvd compliant format.
www.dvdrhelp.com will go through all you need to do to get an avi into a dvd playable file.


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you have to burn em like a cd

like theres 80 mins on a cd

theres 120 mins on a dvd

so youd only get like 4 episodes on it
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you have to burn em like a cd

like theres 80 mins on a cd

theres 120 mins on a dvd

so youd only get like 4 episodes on it
Episodes are only 30 minutes because of commercials. He could probably fit at least 1 or 2 more.

As for the prices, if you want to look for some try newegg.com or pricegrabber.com and you can probably find some good deals.
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i reckon that each episode without commercials is aroune 20-23 minutes.So yeah you could fit maybe 5 or 6 episode on it
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you have to burn em like a cd

like theres 80 mins on a cd

theres 120 mins on a dvd

so youd only get like 4 episodes on it
So your saying that a cd (around 700mb) is 80 min and a dvdr (around 4gig) is 120 mins?
That dont sound right to me.
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So your saying that a cd (around 700mb) is 80 min and a dvdr (around 4gig) is 120 mins?
That dont sound right to me.

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Old 12-26-2003, 02:06 AM   #10
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So your saying that a cd (around 700mb) is 80 min and a dvdr (around 4gig) is 120 mins?
That dont sound right to me.
CD is audio. DVD is video.
 
Old 12-26-2003, 11:39 AM   #11
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Fine, but I have a ripped copy of "the ring" (1 hour 52 mins long 1.07 gig ) "spongbob squarepants dvd (1 hour 54 mins long 1.11 gig ) "queen live in concert (1 hour 36 mins long 948 mb) "the lion king" (1 hour 28 mins long 886mb)

so thats 4.014 gig of video (these are vcd compliant mpeg ripped from dvd) total time : 410 mins, around 7 hours of video that will fit nicely onto one DVDR disk.

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Old 12-26-2003, 01:49 PM   #12
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when you burn it on a dvd it doesnt go by the size of the file, it goes by the amount of minutes

but whatever thats how i tried it
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like it didnt go by the size of the file

it just changed a 120 minute movie into like 4 or something gigabytes
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yeah i think it's like when you burn a vcd, you could go over 700mb but not over 80 minutes. i dunno if it's different for dvd though.
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Old 01-13-2004, 05:48 PM   #15
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Download a program TMPGEnc, using this program you can convert avi and divx files into Mpeg2 so there ready to burn on to DVD. This program also lets you compress the video, so instead of only being able to fit 2 hours on a DVD, you can fit about 8 hours.

As for making DVD's, download a program called DVD-lab, it's one of the best and easiest DVD creators I'll found.

Hope that helped
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