I have a 19.1GB MPG file that I'd like to split and burn on several DVDs

[olnacl]

After some thought, I elected to copy it (again - that's three copies of this crud so far) from the TiVo to the HDD on my old faithful Panasonic E95H and there break it into (approx) 2 hr. segments that will fast copy to DVD, so 4 DVDs. If I get ambitious (doubtful) maybe I'll edit out the commercials. I may run the iMovie and iDVD suggestions up the flagpole just to see if anyone salutes. Thanks for the help.

[rjmacs]

Black wrote:
[quote=Jimmypoo]
Do you have the Wedding Nite video? I want to see Kate doin' her thing on baldo.

I'll bet both of them just lay there.
You haven't been paying much attention to the Duchess, have you? She's a lot more lively than your average RFM (royal family member).

[cbelt3]

Jimmypoo wrote:
Do you have the Wedding Nite video? I want to see Kate doin' her thing on baldo.

Ya know, after living together for years, I think they both know where everything goes. And the whole concept of spending your wedding night at..

Grandma's House ?

Definite moodkiller !

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Are you young people all done in there ? I've made scones !

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Put it on a Blu-ray?

[Chakravartin]

Ken Sp. wrote:
That should fit on 2 DVD-R DL Dual Layer discs. 8.5 GB each is the limit...

3 DL DVDs.

If it were burnt directly and didn't need any re-encoding.

DLs actually hold around 7.9GB. (It's the same confusion of unit-prefixes that they use to pretend that a 930GB drive actually holds a TB.)

olnacl wrote:
After some thought, I elected to copy it (again - that's three copies of this crud so far) from the TiVo to the HDD on my old faithful Panasonic E95H and there break it into (approx) 2 hr. segments that will fast copy to DVD...

Maybe a little late for this...

If I wanted to make 3 playable video DVDs of the highest quality (least amount of transcoding) and the least amount of effort then I'd probably use QuickTime Pro 7 to create 3 reference-movies of roughly equal durations from the original MPEG.

Then I'd burn each with Toast Pro.

(You could do it all in Toast 10 or 11, but Toast's editing tools are nowhere near as precise as QT Pro is.)

[olnacl]

Chakravartin wrote:
Maybe a little late for this...

If I wanted to make 3 playable video DVDs of the highest quality (least amount of transcoding) and the least amount of effort then I'd probably use QuickTime Pro 7 to create 3 reference-movies of roughly equal durations from the original MPEG.

Then I'd burn each with Toast Pro.

(You could do it all in Toast 10 or 11, but Toast's editing tools are nowhere near as precise as QT Pro is.)

Thanks, but it was a bit late. I copied the full 8 hours in real time to the Panasonic and then split the resulting file into 4 two hour segments which I burned to 4 standard DVDs. Since BBC on my Comcrap is not HD, the resultant copy is nearly as god as the broadcast quality, even though it was transferred via S-video from the Tivo. Since the recipient is still using a 27" CRT TV, all is well. (And I seriously doubt she'll ever watch all of it - more likely she's already watched the initial 3.5 hour prelude and the 2 hour Highlights DVDs I already gave her and has seen enuf). Sometimes I wonder why I bother but it does keep me off the streets at night.