Paging video-editing/burning-isti: Variable bitrate .avi compression

Hi,

[background]

I'm trying to burn a bunch of .avi files to a DVD-R. It's the final disc of
the final series of a seven season show. So I *really* want the episodes to
fit onto a single disc. Nero[1] informs me that I can fit 4490Mb on the DVD,
and the 12 files together are 4492Mb, a poxy 2Mb over.

If it were a CDR, I would just overburn it, and I tried to do the same with
this. However, whilst Nero (allegedly) supports DVD overburning, it won't
work. After I select overburn, it then spits the disc back out and won't do
it.

Normally in this situation, I break out my favourite tool for the job,
VirtualDub, and just chop 2 seconds off the end of the credits for each
file, re-save and job done. But in this case, every audio track has been
recorded using variable bitrate audio, and virtualdub gets upset. Says I
have to decompress the entire audio track and re-encode using constant
bitrate, or it will skew the audio out of sync.

FFS! All I want to do is shave off about 10Mb from about 4,500, not recode
the sodding lot!

Anyone got any ideas? Any other tool I can use to do the job quickly?

TIA

[1] Full version, paid for any everything!

 

<SNIP?

Write your DVD to a virtual image on hard drive
then load this http://www.dvdshrink.org/ and use it to fit contents to disk.

Thats what I do

 

http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/showsoftware_virtualdub_346.html - right down the bottom "VirtualDub with MP3 VBR
support"

Tom

 

Top man! Will give it a go, cheers.

 

Hmm, yeah. I suppose. But it goes back to the whole point of not wanting to
spend ages recoding 12 video files in order to shave off something like 0.2%
of the file length.