hey guys whats up, im having trouble with something here. i got some anime episodes i want to burn onto a dvd, but can only fit 3 on 1 dvd. the thing is the other day i made a vcd with 3 episodes on it. if 3 can fit in a cdr how come i can only fit 3 on my dvd? the files are in avi format.

If you're just burning 3 movies onto a DVD then you have some sort of problem as you should be able to fit a lot more onto it. If however you are creating a " true " DVD i.e. it has a menu, BG music, BG graphics and all that good sort of stuff, then the answer is simple...you had to convert your AVI's into DVD compliant files. To do this, what you did was you stretched your AVI files out to DVD required size so in fact, your new files are larger and take up more space than your original files, therefore they are filling up your blank DVD. DVD video size is 720 x 480 res and VCD video size is 352 x 240 res. You can fiddle around a bit with the size by using TMPEGenc...it gives you the option to make a DVD compliant file with a 352 x 480 res size so this might save you some space but I suspect that whatever prog you use to actually create the DVD with change the size...so you might be right back where you started. I hope this answers your question.

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im just trying to put some anime episodes on dvd. each files is in avi format and is about 140mb. do i need to convert them into something else in order for more than 3 to fit on 1 dvd?

Probably not. Let me give you an analogy...your videos are each the size of a teaspoon...in order for your DVD player to play them, they must be the size of a soup ladle. Whatever prog you're using to create the DVD is expanding the dimentions of the teaspoon to create a soup ladle. In other words, your files are being made larger because they MUST be made larger. So no matter how small they originally were, they will be made larger. Now of course everything I'm telling you now and I told you earlier is based on the assumption that you were actually attempting to create a DVD movie as opposed to just burning some AVI's onto a blank DVD...in which case you should have been able to burn a lot more onto it. I hope this explains everything. :)

Ryu, If you want to be able to insert more than 3 episodes on a DVDR, then you should burn them as "data". I burn my anime episodes as Data, and I put more than 20 episodes on each cd. but you have to know that if u burn them on as DATA, then you can only watch it on ur pc. Unless if you buy a DIVX player like I did, (Philips DVP642)