Hi fellow KaTers, Im looking for a program that can maybe shrink or reduce the size of a video file so i can put multiple tv episodes on one disc rather than 1-2 per disc. Iv'e really gotten into these True Bloods but it seems only 2 per dvd. Anyway to reduce the size and maybe add like 4 or 6 per disc like the store bought ones? Curious because im running through dvds fast with tv shows and the discs I buy are $50 bucks for a 50 spindle. Lmk plz thanks.

Really depends on what type of files the player you are going to be using supports.

Well, I use convertxdvd to get them all to play in my home dvd player (not sure really what you mean). I do know it takes them all to NTSC so it can play in my home dvd player. I just need something that can add multiple shows on one disc like store bought versions. right now it can only do 2x per disc and that gets lame. I bought season 1 of trueblood and it seems theres like 4-6 on one disc. I dont know if im making any sense of this but there has got to be a way to squeeze more tv episodes than 2 onto a single disc.

Get rewritable disks. Use Convertxtodvd, it will adjust output quality slightly to handle the size of the data. I have reused some rewritable disks more than 10 times with no problems. But now I am starting to get TVs etc that have USB ports for mem sticks and hard drives. I have put 4 hours of tv shows onto a disk.

Also, What Type of files are you trying to edit?

These all seem to be .AVI files i believe, convertxdvd is way to slow to burn (like 2 days a disc on 24x) i just use that to convert than nero 7 to burn with a menu template.I thought about the dvdrw's but wanted to keep the collection honestly but try to have the episodes more compiled into maybe 4 discs a season rather than like 8 per season. I've googled it and it seems dvd Shrink maybe what im looking for but im not sure, Ive also read on shrinking decreasing the quality of the films?

The disks that contain 4 to 6 episodes are 8.5 gig (maybe even higher for some commercial DVDs) rather than your standard 4.7 gig disks. As artl said, your best bet would be to buy re-writable discs and reuse them.

I don't think your going to be able to shrink them in standard mpeg2 dvd format. That format isn't a compression so it really depends on the duration:size ratio rather than kbps:size like mpeg3 and mpeg4 do.

The quality will decrease if you put more on the disk than the rated capacity. You wouldn't notice much unless you have HD stuff. If you are using -Rs, look in the news paper or internet, some times places sell them for very low prices. How about burning when you go to bed if you computer takes a while to convert and burn. Conversion is a very big CPU cycle user. BTW most conversion programs use the same conversion processes.

Thanks guys, Ill just stick to the 2 episodes per disc until next week when i get paid at which point ill buy some rw's.

If your DVD player supports Divx files (many older models do, not real sure about new ones) you can create mpeg3 Divx .avi's and it will play them. You can shrink them significantly that way because mpeg3 supports i and p frames, b frames, motion estimation and other compression standards that mpeg2 doesn't. That's why DVD burning programs don't really have any quality settings other than interlacing. It is pretty much "run what you brung".