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splitting DVD's into youtube chunks

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pretty self-explanatory....I'm looking to put various bits of my work on youtube, but need advice on how to split a DVD up into manageable sizes

FINISHED:
The Sith Revealed - A Scrapbook
Episode III The Video Game - The Movie
24: The Missing Day
Star Wars - The Interactive Board Game DVD
Battlefront - Journal of the 501st
The Clones Revealed

email me for details daveytod AT btinternet DOT com

 

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What's a manageable size?

I know YouTube resizes to 320x240 and re-encodes anything you upload into FLV format, but I don't know what formats they accept or what size/time constraints they have on uploads (as I've never actually uploaded anything to YouTube myself). I assume they won't accept raw VOB sections split straight out of your DVD source?

You can probably help things along by doing the resizing yourself, but from what I understand the site will alway re-encode your video, even if you submit it in FLV to begin with. To begin with I'd try submitting a 320x240 Xvid AVI file and see how that looks.

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they have suggestions on the site on how to get the best quality. they will resize to 320x240 and also i believe there is a 100mb max. i think i have heard people say to reencode it yourself to an xvid at 320x240 and get it as close to 100MB as possible. the less youtube has to do to the file, the better.

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The limit is 100MB and 10 minutes. Therefore a 1 hour piece would need cutting into 6 or 7 chunks.
"YouTube accepts video files from most digital cameras, camcorders, and cell phones in the .WMV, .AVI, .MOV, and .MPG file formats."

So you could upload mpeg2 files but then the 100MB limit would mean short clips.

http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/topic.py?topic=10524 for your answers.
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Is that 100 MB or MiB?

The sums work out at a maximum total bitrate of 1300-1400kbps. The easiest approach is probably to encode the entire length to an AVI, with MP3 audio at 192kbps and Xvid video, all quality options enabled, at 1100kbps (which is more than enough for video at 320x240). Then use something like Nandub or AVI-Mux GUI to conveniently split the AVI into 100MB chunks.

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