MPEG 4 to DVD....
How many hours can you put on a dvd with an mpeg 4 file?
A data DVD or video DVD?
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It is video of a deposition so you may have 4-7 hours of footage.....and it would be for archiving said deposition......Does that help you answer?
Thanks Russ H....
A DVD holds about 4.3GB of data on a single layer 4.7GB disk. What fits depends on what you're doing.
An MPEG-4 file is not DVD encoding. Not for one like a commercial movie, or a similar disk you'd create yourself that is. If you put an MP4 file on a data disk, many newer players can be told to read and play such files back, just as they can a bunch of static JPEG images as a slide show.
If you mean you want a standard movie DVD, then you need a way to author and create such a DVD. Those will always be MPEG-2. How much tI've fits all depends on the bit rate you set, if you have the option to choose your own. Higher bit rates mean better quality, but less run time that will fit. Lower bit rates means choppier video, but longer movies that will fit on the same disk.
So it sounds like a data disk – something that would deb be played in QuickTime on(or from) a computer – is what you need.
The MP4 standard def preset in Compressor is 1000 Kb per second. That works out to about 450 MB per hour. So you should be able to fit 9 hours on one DVD comfortably,
Russ
MPEG 4 to DVD....