Shrinking SVCD/AVI

Sorry if this is in the wrong section but I belive its more of a software problem than a tv/movies question.

The problem I have is after I have extracted the mpg from a movie that comes on 2 or more svcd disks and put them into nero in order to burn, if the size is over the 4.7gb and I change it to long play or reduce the frame rate in order for it to fit on the dvd-r, the sound is always out of sync.

I download dvd-r's of movies that I could not get to fit myself from other sources eg I had to put the Aviator on 2 dvd's but have recently got the screener on 1 dvd so what am I doing wrong.

Any help would be very much apprieciated.

merge the 2 mpeg files then convert them to DVD (.vob files)

Thanks I will give that a go now I have never tried to change svcd to vob, however I have just merged 2 avi files (chiity Chitty Bang Bang for the sprog) and changed that to vob files with winavi, this produced two files (disk 0 & disk 1) with most vob files in disk 0 file, I merged both sets of vob files with dvdlab and it comes to about 5.5gb is there anyway I can shrink that? The film is about 2 and a half hours long.

there is a free prog called dvd shrink that might help you here is a link to there site.

http://www.dvdshrink.org/

I have tried to shrink the file afterwards with dvdshrink but I get the message...

DVD Shrink encountered an error and cannot continue

Invalid data in file "C\where ever I have put the vob files"

I've downloaded movies that consisted of 2 parts, both in an .avi format.

I use WinAvi to convert to Mpeg2, then use TMPGEnc to merge the 2, then use
WinAvi again to convert to DVD format. Finally I use Nero to burn the DVD files.

Without using Dual layer DVDs(I have this capability), this seems to be the best method I could come up
with and still keep the DVD files under 4.7G. The quality is still there and it doesn't take hours and hours to complete.

If I convert the .avi files directly to DVD format than I must author the DVD.
This is more time consuming, less reliable, and the results are more likely to not fit onto a 4.7g blank DVD.

I have yet to try any other tools though.

my .02¢

edit: check out www.videhelp.com for tutorials on various methods.

Instead of converting to svcd try converting to kvcd.It can fit at least 120 minutes of good video with the right resolution.

That is what i am getting @ least, Check my info or go to www.kvcd.net

I dont have a dvd burner, so I dont know about that part.