Burn DVD with audio tracks.

[crissrudd4554]

What was the final filesize you ended up with?

The bitrate calculator is an approximation and I have had to bump up the bitrate by a little bit before to fully fill out an DVD5 or DVD9.

And as far as the quality... Yeah, that's why I wrote in the beginning, that with some footage the "two-pass - average bitrate" option will give better results, but NOT always.

Also, if you are aiming for DVD5, then having two audio streams at 1509kbps is really not leaving you much room for video, hence the low quality and then it doesn't matter what method/software/etc you use as the result will always be about the same

Yeah I had a feeling that would be the case since I am using a DVD5. One method I'm considering using is using this video converter to make the video essentially DVD quality and do the tracks separately then run everything through ConvertX again. Perhaps with the file being so big the program has a quality overwrite that results in the overly reduced quality. If I can make it smaller perhaps I'll get something better. I know it sounds like a stretch but what do I got to lose???

[crissrudd4554]

Heres what Ive come down to. I used a program called FreeMake to convert the mkv to an MPEG. I now have a 5gb video to work with as opposed to a 16gb video. Quality wasnt reduced too bad. It may be noticable in some scenes but it looks ok. Since the mkv Im trying to burn only has two audio streams I just converted the other stream as a separate track. Tomorrow Im gonna take another shot at burning this through ConvertX. Im hoping that since I have a file thats much less gb than before, albeit still somewhat above the limitations of a DVD-5, it will hopefully result in better quality. I know that sounds like wishful thinking but like I said before what do I got to lose????

[jerryshadoe]

If you got a 5GB video, then that is already TOO BIG to fit on a DVD5 and that doesn't even include the audio yet. Technically, you can only fit around 4.35GB on a DVD5 !!!

So, that 5gb video file is USELESS if you wish to burn this to DVD5 and using it to re-encode into a smaller file is also pointless, because you are re-encoding a lossy encode into another lossy encode at an even lower bitrate which will result in more compression artifacts, macroblocking, and a generally worse looking picture quality. You want to use the highest quality source when doing a re-encode.

I'm happy to do the transcode for you if you tell me what you are trying to convert

[crissrudd4554]

I do have dual layer DVDs that I haven't tried yet

[jerryshadoe]

Well, for DVD9, technically the actual size is about 7.95GB, in which case your video could probably be about 6GB instead of 5, which would result in an even better picture quality than what you have now. If going for DVD9, then you might as well fill out the disc

[crissrudd4554]

Aren't they 8.5?? That's what the labels on mine say.

[crissrudd4554]

Greetings everyone! Yep using the dual disc worked. Here's what I did. I used an mpeg version of the mkv file I converted through Nero and then converted my extra audio track to an MP3 file using FreeMake. I burnt everything to a dual DVD disc using ConvertX. The video file I used was actually a 7.85 gb so the quality came out better than had I used the 5gb file. Happy with the results.

[jerryshadoe]

Happy it worked out for you

[crissrudd4554]

I found a third way as well although it's along the lines of what I did before. Basically I used a program called Wondershare and converted the file to a different format, converted the audio tracks to AAC, burnt everything to a dual layered disc through ConvertX. The results were pretty good.

[jerryshadoe]

yeah, maybe so but that means that your DVD was a re-encode of a re-encode of a re-encode of a bluray... The video might still be watchable because you are "downrez'ing" from HD to SD, but the audio HAS to be pretty degraded at this point.

To me, this would be unacceptable, but I'm happy that it works for you