For 250 minutes on a DVD9 your bit rate would be 4.1mbps for the video assuming you're using .ac3 for the audio.
That's pretty low for compressor even running VBR with a wide range, so you might want to run some test clips to make sure that what you're getting looks decent enough for the client.  
If you want to get the most out of Compressor (and you're doing this often enough to justify spending $800) I'd recommend the Cinemacraft CCE-MP plug in. It does a really nice job at the lower bit rates where Compressor often falls down.
-Andrius Simutis

On Jul 30, 2012, at 8:42 AM, Michael Hazarian wrote:

Yea, 250 minutes should be doable with mpeg2, particularly if there is a good amount of synthetic footage. I was just providing a bit of an aside.

Mike Hazarian

On 7/30/2012 3:38 AM, Jonathan Penzner wrote:

Good day to everyone.

A client wants to jam around 250 minutes of video into a standard DVD. Is that even possible or will the result just look like such crap that it becomes pointless? It's a combination of of footage, graphics and audio – VO over a bed, in most cases. Just wondering what the accepted wisdom is here. Perhaps a dual layered DVD is the answer. But will that play in standard players?

Thanks in advance.

Jonathan

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