Video Gurus. Please Help.

[aminsagar123]

Hello Friends,
I have 4 DVDs of my friend's wedding. The total length of each DVD is no more than 2 hours.

I want to shrink videos from all the DVDs on a single DVD so i can play it on DVD player. Quality loss doesn't matter.

I have 6 VCDs of my cousin's wedding, i want to burn them all to a single DVD.

Please suggest a good software/tutorial to do these tasks.

Thanks a lot.

[koolbluez]

To play on DVD player.... with no Divx/XVid reading capacity.... u have to maintain the "play duration".. meaning... total length of all dvds put together should be within 2 hrs.

We could have merged them all and put in a dvd with any video compression software but then.. it'll be unreadable in standard DVD players

Same for the VCDs...

Size/quality is relevant to compression standards and not standard video modes like VCD/DVD...

[aminsagar123]

thanks. but see this thread >> How to Burn 4 Movies on 1 DVD

guy burned 4 movies on 1 DVD.

[redhat]

Use Nero Recode and try to compress the movies into 1 DVD

[MetalheadGautham]

its really really easy to do what you want.

First the burning the 6 VCDs to a dvd part: just place the video folders of each CD in the DVD. From what I know, a DVD has enough capacity to swallow 6 VCDs as a whole, without transcoding.

To place 4 DVD movies to one DVD, either transcode them to a format like h.264/vorbis in mkv and place them in the DVD, or use DVD Shrink or a similar software to reduce the size of each DVD movie, and then place them in the DVD.

But first, tell us if you intend to view them on a DVD Player or a PC.

[aminsagar123]

@metalhead - want to play on DVD player.