5 hours on one DVD

For what it is worth (Maybe I should have started a new post).
I had a client that just wanted the five hours of mini DV just to have as a record of the their wedding. Not interested in editing. So after captureing in PP2 I then went into Encore 2.o and put them on the timeline and just burned the DVD. No graphics, chapters or anything. When put into a set top dvd player one had "pretend" there were chapters and click on the remote "Chapter" button.
I let Encore fit the five hours on the DVD.
What surprised me was that not only did I get five hours on a single layer DVD-R, but that the quality was very good on my 35inch tv in the family room.
5 hours and good quality.
Now I my next test is to do a very simple title and five chapters labled only as to "tape one of five" and so on.
Yours,
Tom

5 hours.
This = 300 Minutes, = 18,000 seconds.
Available space on a DVD5 - 4,700,000,000*8 = 37,600,000,000 /1,000,000 = 37,600 Megabits of total space available.
Lose 4% overhead = 36,000 approx.
Audio.
Assuming Dolby Digital at 0.192 Mbits/second.
= 3,456 Megabits.
Subtract this from the total gives us a remainder of 32,544 Megabits.
32554 / 18,000 = 1.805 Megabits of actual Video Bitrate.
It is going to look appalling.
You must override to a CBR encode, and hope like heck the built-in transcoder will even allow such a painfully low bitrate to encode.
Quality is going to be worse than a cross of telephone camera footage encoded to Flash & uploaded to YouTube.
It will make that look like high quality.
Why bother?
You're throwing out so much quality it will be completely unwatchable.

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