Video file spanned over multiple DVD's

[SLCentral]

If I have a movie (.ts HDTV file) that spans over 3 DVD's because of it's size, is there any way for me to put all three disks in three seperate DVD drives in my system, and play them all seamlessly from one disk to another, without having to deal with playlists, etc?

 

[CalvinHobbes]

Why not play them from the HD? You could do that seamlessly.

 

[yadda]

He probably wants to play them on his HT off his big screen. That is why he is possibly trying to put them on DVD give them to someone else????

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[SunSamurai]

lol... The art of compression is lost on some people.

 

[SLCentral]

Originally posted by: aeternitas
lol... The art of compression is lost on some people.

I've already tried compressing in XVid. When you have a 2560x1600 30" screen, compression shows. I'm already upconverting 1080i HD streams to view.

 

[GimpyFuzznut]

Try compressing 12 gig 1080i HD movie to a single DVD without serious quality loss. Maybe on your crappy 20inch CRT screen, you won't notice anything.

 

[Markbnj]

I'm all about high quality, but why can't you just put the video on a big hard disk and stream it from there? It's the 3 DVD drives part that I'm not getting. Do you want to be able to play it from three seperate dedicated DVD players, i.e. no HTPC and no hard drive available?

Buy a six-disc changer and put up with a little delay from disk to disk? I don't know, I'm still not getting something here.

 

[SLCentral]

Originally posted by: Markbnj
I'm all about high quality, but why can't you just put the video on a big hard disk and stream it from there? It's the 3 DVD drives part that I'm not getting. Do you want to be able to play it from three seperate dedicated DVD players, i.e. no HTPC and no hard drive available?

Buy a six-disc changer and put up with a little delay from disk to disk? I don't know, I'm still not getting something here.

I want to play it from a HTPC, but I don't want to spend hundreds of dollars on hard drives. 27 cents per DVD is much cheaper.

 

[Markbnj]

You can get a couple of hundred gigs of disk for the cost of 3 DVD drives, I bet. Anyway, this doesn't make much sense to me, but good luck with it.

 

[SLCentral]

Originally posted by: Markbnj
You can get a couple of hundred gigs of disk for the cost of 3 DVD drives, I bet. Anyway, this doesn't make much sense to me, but good luck with it.

A DVD drive can be found for $30. That's $90. You can maybe get around 200GB for that, which'll fit about 15-20 movies, and that's it.