What is the best DVD software for burning large compilations?

[Jony65]

Basically I have downloaded all the episodes of Terminator:Sarah Connor Chronicles from Amazon, which would be too large to fit onto a normal DVD. So I'm looking for software which will be able to compress the files to fit on 1 DVD for viewing on my DVD player.

[nullbyte]

If you have a lot of time to spend archiving, compress them using KGB Archiver homepage

[Jordan]

Moved to correct forum. What possessed you to ask a non-programming question such as this one in "Software Development tools" under the General programming section?

[WingedPanther]

It is likely that what you want to do is not possible. My DVD player, at least, can only read normal DVDs/CDs, which have a very limited number of expected encodings. My DVD player can't even read a burned audio CD, which is pretty annoying. Also, DVD files don't compress overly well, so depending on the number of episodes, getting them into an MPEG format may not fit on a DVD.

[morefood2001]

dvds use a standard, however using a utility like tmpegenc, the mpeg encoder, you can shrink the filesize down considerably and fit 8 or 16 hours onto a single disk, but you need to research tools that do this, there is no simple one in all program that does this elegantly. Also when I do it this way, I have problems with some dvd players that don't like the audiots folder present and others that require it to be present. Experiment and you will likely get it to work

[Xav]

My DVD player can't even read a burned audio CD, which is pretty annoying.

That is odd; you could always buy an audio streamer for your TV.

[WingedPanther]

My TV is OLD. Ancient old. Like from the 1990's old. No audio inputs old.

[Xav]

Surely it can accept a SCART input, no?

[WingedPanther]

nope. I told you, the thing is ancient.

[Xav]

Wow. Perhaps you can use your contest prize money of $100 to contribute to a new TV.