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Chat am I cooked? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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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[-] retro@infosec.pub 48 points 3 days ago

You have two options:

  1. 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
  2. Buy DVD 9 Double layer discs that will actually fit the contents

Suprise 3rd option: Split the ISO over multiple discs /s

[-] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 days ago

Suprise 3rd option: Split the ISO over multiple discs

If I have to make myself an unnavigable evil lair, can I hire you?

[-] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] Davel23@fedia.io 30 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[-] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

You need a drive that supports burning those double layer disks

[-] tophneal@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

But they are real! And work!

Source: had appropriate drive/disks in the beforetime

[-] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 22 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] velummortis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 days ago

I'll have to ask if the home theater system plays USB I guess

[-] shane@feddit.nl 11 points 2 days ago

A lot of TV have a USB port and can play directly from that.

[-] workgood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

dont use a dvd use a usb drive

[-] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago

How necessary are the DVDs? Could share them peer to peer over something like soulseek, or set up an sftp server, or a shared drive accessed via Tailscale?

[-] velummortis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

She loves the Y2K aesthetic but didn't have internet growing up, so it's between this and the USB drives

You can split them and just have twice as many disks, bit of work though

[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] velummortis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

None of her computers have optical drives unfortunately, she just has the home theater system from 15 years ago

[-] cenzorrll@piefed.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Connect her computer to the theater system or TV. Give thumb drive.

Alternatively, get am HDMI to rca output adapter if things are real bad for the theater system

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