So I wanted to give a friend an old series on DVD. I thought since I have the series ISOs I can just burn them to disc. BUT the blank DVDs I have are 4GB DVDs and the ISOs are 8GB each. Now I have some spare BDs but apparently the work involved in migrating DVD ISOs to BD is not worth it. Is there no way I can fix this without having to search for higher capacity DVDs?
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There’s a utility called DVDShrink which will reencode a video DVD-9 to DVD-5. It’s old, but I think it still works.
You have two options:
- Compress the video using something like Handbrake. It won’t look as good but you can give it a test pass to see what it looks like
- Buy DVD 9 Double layer discs that will actually fit the contents
Suprise 3rd option: Split the ISO over multiple discs /s
Suprise 3rd option: Split the ISO over multiple discs
If I have to make myself an unnavigable evil lair, can I hire you?
Compressing it with handbrake will probably not look worse. MPEG2 used in DVD is notoriously inefficient by today’s standards. Depending on the codec selected, it’ll be a fraction of the size with no visible differences.
Unless you mean to keep the DVD structure and playability in DVD players (including menus and everything), but I don’t think handbrake can do that.
Normal DVD-R max out at 4.7GB. Wikipedia says there are double layer recordable DVDs with 8.5 GB, I’ve just never seen one of them. But they’re available on Amazon.
Idk. I usually just copy files onto USB thumbdrives these days.
You need a drive that supports burning those double layer disks
Have you thought about just putting the episodes on a thumb drive instead? Most things that can play DVD/BD can play videos from a USB.
I’ll have to ask if the home theater system plays USB I guess
A lot of TV have a USB port and can play directly from that.
You can split them and just have twice as many disks, bit of work though
Do they need to play on a set top DVD player? If they are going to be played on a computer, you can reencode to a modern codec and burn them as data DVDs.
None of her computers have optical drives unfortunately, she just has the home theater system from 15 years ago
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