TV show transfer to DVD - capacity

[Bob Kontak]

I have 151 episodes of the original Combat TV show on my computer.

I want to burn them to DVD.

I have a program called NERO Vision. Works ok. Got it a long time ago.

Is it a simple mathematical exercise to divide the size of the source file(s) into the capacity of the DVD to maintain source file integrity? Just asking as I have only done this with single non HD movies. Lots of room left over.

Suggestions on a better "burner"?

[stomachmonkey]

https://documentation.apple.com/en/dvdstudiopro/usermanual/index.html#chapter=2%26section=8%26tasks=true

and


http://hometheater.about.com/od/dvdrecorderfaqs/f/dvdrecgfaq7.htm

[Por_sha911]

Remember that you won't be able to completely fill each DVD. If you have a file that is 900 MB but only have 899 MB left open on the DVD then you will have to put that file on the next DVD
http://studiopost.com/contact/tech-specs/calculating-disk-space-requirements

[Bob Kontak]

Thank you. Looks like there is plenty of info out there. Slow and wide with buffer seems to be best bet.

Thanks for the links - bookmarked them.

Per Apple link: If you intend to burn your own discs using your system’s DVD burner, you can only use DVD-5 and DVD-9 discs. To use any of the other sizes, you must use a DVD replication facility.

Replication facility. Sounds way cool. Perhaps overkill?:-)

Thanks again.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by Bob Kontak

Replication facility. Sounds way cool. Perhaps overkill?:-)

Thanks again.

Too expensive for your needs.

Also Apple are referring to content that you authored, read, your copyright.

A reputable replicator won't touch commercial content that you don't have rights to.

[Super_Dave_D]

wow all of those full versions are on YouTube

[gtc]

Originally Posted by Bob Kontak

Is it a simple mathematical exercise to divide the size of the source file(s) into the capacity of the DVD to maintain source file integrity? Just asking as I have only done this with single non HD movies. Lots of room left over.

Depends if you are converting them to play on regular old dvd players, or leaving them in the source format (and playing them on a computer or a player with decoding capability.)

[Neilk]

Most smart TVs or advanced DVD players should be able to read them off a memory stick. That might be easier than burning them to a whole lot of different DVDs. Is that an option? What is the current format btw?

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by Neilk

Most smart TVs or advanced DVD players should be able to read them off a memory stick. That might be easier than burning them to a whole lot of different DVDs. Is that an option? What is the current format btw?

Thanks!

avi is the format that I have. Around 700MB each for the first two seasons then 350-ish for the last three.

This is to help a friend (not a buddy) who has a life-long obsession with recording types of media.

He has satellite tv and records them onto a tv data box then burns them to DVD.

He is lives outside Oil City, PA on the way to Titusville (medium rural is a fair term) so he is only able to obtain DSL and they charge for data flow so he is screwed re the internet.

Just doing him a favor because he wants the whole set and is having a difficult time compiling it from satellite tv offerings.

I snag movies for him that he remembers from the drive-in as a kid. The Monolith Monsters and Kronos (both 1957) are recent finds. He squealed like a little boy when handed over.

He is sixty three years old. We cannot change his system. He does not want a stick. It's different. Chances are the stack of DVD's I burn will be cataloged, entered into the physical archives and never viewed. Note he still has daily logs of work he performed as a production machinist in the 70's. They are sitting right next to his Graf Zeppelin stamps and the bug collection (sitting on top of the beer label collection).

Just helping out a bro.