Answers.Body: <p>Well, the short answer is, you can't. </p>
  
  <p>The longer answer: DVD uses MPEG2 compression, which is a lot less efficient than MPEG4 (aka h.264). In other words it can't get the same quality from the same file size as MPEG4 does. </p>
  
  <p>So you can choose: similar file size, or similar quality, but not both.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: 'MPEG4' is likely part 2 (xvid), rather than part 10 (h.264), but your point still stands
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Body: <p>I want to encode a group of low-quality MPEG-4 video files to DVD format (to eventually burn to a DVD).</p>
  
  <p>The problem is that when I encode the video, the resulting files are often 2-3x as large as the original video files.</p>
  
  <p>How can I encode the video files so that they are in DVD format, roughly the same quality, and roughly the same file size as the originals?</p>
  
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Title: Encode MPEG-4 to DVD Format Without Doubling File Size
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ThreadText: # Encode MPEG-4 to DVD Format Without Doubling File Size
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2012-02-07)
  
  I want to encode a group of low-quality MPEG-4 video files to DVD format (to eventually burn to a DVD).
  
  The problem is that when I encode the video, the resulting files are often 2-3x as large as the original video files.
  
  How can I encode the video files so that they are in DVD format, roughly the same quality, and roughly the same file size as the originals?
  
  **Tags:** file-formats
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2012-02-07. Score: 3
  
  Well, the short answer is, you can't.
  
  The longer answer: DVD uses MPEG2 compression, which is a lot less efficient than MPEG4 (aka h.264). In other words it can't get the same quality from the same file size as MPEG4 does.
  
  So you can choose: similar file size, or similar quality, but not both.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: 'MPEG4' is likely part 2 (xvid), rather than part 10 (h.264), but your point still stands  
  
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