windows 7 - How can I burn many movies to a video DVD?

I once bought a DVD containing four 90-minute-long movies. Now I'm trying to write such a DVD, but don't know how to do it.

I tried to use DVD-Flick, but it says the disc is 98% used for a single 90-minute movie. My movies are 700MB dvdrips (AVI).

How can I put four movies on one disc?

Answer

Four 90 minute movies (for a total of 6 hours of film) would result in very poor picture quality on a single 4.6GB DVD.

A typical writable DVD is rated for approximately 2 hours of "good" quality video and generally film studios use dual layers to get more "film" on a DVD so have up to around 9GB available for film data.

The reason why the films only take up 700MB on your hard drive is that they are compressed using a newer higher quality compression method that takes up less space, effectively when you convert to DVD you are expanding it from one high compression algorithm to a another lower compression algorithm (a process known as transcoding).

If you absolutely must fit all four of those films on to one DVD then you can do this in DVD Flick by opening your project, selecting Project Settings on the top bar, then in the window that shows up you can play with the Target Bitrate to adjust the video quality:

Simply turn down the bitrate until all the video fits on the disc.