Single layer or double layer DVDs?

Right now when I burn a movie to a single layer dvd in dvd format to be played in regular dvd players, windows media center says there is not enough space and quality will be lost. If I buy dual layer dvd+Rs, will my video quality increase?

Can most dvd players read dvd+r DL dvds?

My burner is a lightscribe DVD+RW DL, so I'm pretty sure it can burn dual layer dvds.

Thanks

 

In my opinion on my 720P tv at home, I cannot see the difference to a degree of comment. With a standard hour and a half movie, the file is about 5 GB +/-, and on a DVD you get about 4GB+ after encoding without a menu. When I last looked, dual layer dvd's were almost a dollar a piece and regular dvd's were about a quarter a pop. If this is for a professional or HD buff, then yes...but in my opinion save your money.

 

DL is usually $30-35 for 50 right now on most deals. As far as copies the DVDs will be exact copies when using DL. Yes all DVD players can read a DL as all real DVD movies are DL. And yes your burner can burn DL.

 

I burn movies using both. Dual layer are more expensive but I watch for sales and buy them when on sale. For the most part if you just copy the main movie then there should be very little compression. I have never had a problem with any machine reading either regular dvd or dual layer.

Sometimes I want to completely copy the movie without compression because I know I will be watching it several times. To be honest most times the there is not much of a difference using the dual layer. I use a program called DVDFAB that lets me select what I want to watch and and discard the rest such a movie trailers and the like.

 

BOTH!!!! You will find with the right tools you can "Shrink" a dual layer movie to a single layer disc in no time and keep full resolution. I use VoBBlanker to cut out all the extras, previews, and long credits at the end of the movie and more often than not, after running it through Nero, keep 100% resolution. Just the movie and menus are all that are left. You can even cut out the spanish audio tracks that you will never use. Check out afterdawn.com dvd-r for newbies to get started. (For huge movies like the Lord of The Rings, I use dual layer discs.)

 

what are you watching the movies on?
when I used to watch movies on a tiny, tube TV in my dorm-room, compressing a movie onto a single-layer disc (while cutting out extraneous audio tracks and whatnot) was OK. When I upgraded to a high-res display, you could tell a difference in the quality between an original and a copy. Now, I do all my movies on DL media, which allows for retention of bonus features, extra audio tracks, etc. (although I still cut out foreign-language tracks to cut down encoding time).

 

I'm watching on a regular late 1990s 32 inch TV.

Can Alcohol 120% do all this removing of garbage like previes and spanish subtitles?

Thanks

 

Lol that's why you don't scratch the disc..

 

If you want the menus, extras, 5.1 sound, and all the subtitle options, then dual layer will yield a noticeable difference in picture quality. If you only want the movie itself, in stereo, single layer is the way to go.

 

Software like DVD Shrink does not really compress the movie, instead it remove picture quality from the movie. Professional recoders like CCE actually recompress the entire movie with lower bitrate so it could fit a 4.7GB disk.
Personally I have never used DL-disks. I remove all the extras and leave only the English audio, the subtitles I leave them since those don't occupy lot's of space on the disc.
If you want to use SL disks then recoding the whole movie is your best choice.

 

Alcohol 120% is used mostly to back up games. Dvd Shrink is OLD. Nero recode was written by the same author as DVD Shrink and is much better. With Nero you can choose your audio tracks and subtitles. It will show you the % of original resolution before recoding. You can choose which part of the disc is alloted more bitrate and down grade the extras if you want. If I can't keep 80% resolution of the movie I use a dual layer disc. Though t30power is correct a CCE encoder is the best way to go.

 

Any program that uses the VSO software transcoder is best, in my opinion.