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Need help fitting a compressed Blu ray film 1080p into a DL DVD | ||
| jones24 posted 2009 Aug 12 10:27 | ||
| I own a couple of compressed Blu ray movies that are in mkv format. These files are slightly larger than what a DL DVD holds. Around like 8.9GB in size.
I did not do the video editing or compression, i simply downloaded them from the net. I guess i need help in re-encoding them so it fits properly into a DL DVD. Pls help me by telling me which programs to use. Thanks. | ||
| manono posted 2009 Aug 12 10:43 | ||
| Are you going to keep them as MKV, only shrinking the size, and then burning as a data disc, or do you want to convert them to DVD/MPEG-2 video and (probably) AC3 audio so you can make DVDs playable in a DVD player? | ||
| jones24 posted 2009 Aug 12 11:54 | ||
Yes my original intention is to simply shrink it and burn as a data disc since i believe that this helps keep the quality intact but maybe i could also convert it so i can play it on my dvd player but the quality will decrease am i right? | ||
| Ai Haibara posted 2009 Aug 12 12:21 | ||
| If you want to be able to watch it on a DVD player, yes, the quality will have to be reduced. You can't watch HD video on a DVD player, so... say, for example, your video is 1920x1080. The maximum DVD resolution is 720x576 (PAL), 720x480 (NTSC), meaning you'd have to re-encode the video... and that's a guaranteed quality hit.
Burning the file to a data disc as-is (assuming you can indeed fit it to a standard DVD-R/RW :D) won't otherwise touch the data, so the quality shouldn't be affected. | ||
| jones24 posted 2009 Aug 12 13:23 | ||
| i was hoping to get a few software recommendations. | ||
| edDV posted 2009 Aug 12 13:33 | ||
| Recoding will reduce quality. You might want to demux and cut out 500MB (e.g. the credit role + more). | ||
| Ai Haibara posted 2009 Aug 12 14:08 | ||
| I think you can use MKVMerge (not entirely sure with the BR-converted MKVs) to delete some unnecessary streams in the MKV. Does the MKV have more than one audio stream, and/or subtitles? If you don't need those alternate audio streams or subtitles, removing those might help bring the MKV under the DL limit. (Work on a copy of the video, of course, not the original, just in case.) | ||
| jman98 posted 2009 Aug 12 14:14 | ||
| Well, if you split the MKV file in half, it would fit on 2 single layer DVD discs. Based on another thread you have, it would also seem that you would save a lot of time that way. | ||
| johns0 posted 2009 Aug 12 14:42 | ||
| Also check to see if the movies are 1920x1080,lot of the mkv are 1920x800 and wont play properly on most blu-ray players unless they are resized to 1920x1080.Uncropmkv is what i use on these type of mkv. | ||
| ranosb posted 2009 Sep 26 21:21 | ||
| HD mkv files are a good archive format, can be watched as HD or on a dvd, this is what I do;
For Dvd, use ConvertxtoDvd, select DVD9/DVD5 depending on the size of your mkv. You should see "Excellent" for quality conversion, for a very nice DVD. For Blu-ray, For files larger than 4.2GB, open Mkvmerge, select "enable splitting, after this size" 4200000k, start muxing, which should produce 2 mkv files. Drop each new mkv file into tsmuxer, select AVCHD and burn with imgburn on a DVD5 RW for HD or FHD quality viewing... |
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