On Sunday 22 February 2009 03:02:34 pm John Detwiler wrote:
> 2. I've been following the workflow in the Cinelerra manual for
> publishing to DVD, and it works just fine.  That is:
>
>         - render to foo.ac3 and foo.m2v from Cinelerra
>         - ffmpeg -i foo.ac3 -i foo.m2v -target ntsc-dvd foo.mpg
>         - dvdauthor (with appropriate XML for multiple 'chapters')
>         - mkisofs
>         - burn to DVD (standard utility)
>
> 3. Standard DVD+R have 4.7 GB capacity, and hold about half an hour of
> mpg's.  My finished project (including 'feature' and 'extras') will be
> at least 60-90 minutes altogether.

John, 
I follow pretty much the same work flow you describe above and can easily get 
100+ 
minutes of video on a standard DVD.  It depends on the size/rate of the final 
rendered 
foo.mpg file(s).

I usually use dvdstyler for creating Menus, Chapters, etc, and the iso, then 
burn the 
iso with k3b. dvdstyler seems to handle some non-dvd compliant file formats, 
converting them to what is needed( e.g. bitrate, frame rate-NTSC/PAL, etc)

This method works well for me, allowing me to check menu operations, etc with 
dvdstyler preview mode using Xine and seeing the size of the final iso file.  
If its 
too large, you can consider using k9copy to shrink the file to fit on a single 
dvd.
HTH
Ron
-- 
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