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I'm playing around with this one at the moment. It looks like you can avoid having to fumble with the audio mixing during the .bik re-coding if you select the 'compress audio' option in the compression options. To keep it from sounding bad I put a value of '0' in the field, and leaving the other fields empty/unselected in the 'compress audio' section.
I just did a full compress of the gamedata (everything except the FMV folder) and it came out to 5,580 mb in the inno script with compression=lzma/ultra64, meaning if it's to go on one dvd9 the video would have to be compressed at 40% to packed into the install with no compression. At 40% compression the video looks pretty bad though, especially on my widescreen monitor.
Doing a video compression test, it looks like .bik videos compress at a 90% ratio on average.
So, this means that a video folder of 6.3 gb can be compressed using Rad Video Tools @ 50% down to 3.15gb, which is then compressed using inno's lzma/ultra64 down to 2.8 gb.
2.8gb videos + 5.6 gb gamedata = 8.4gb, fitting on a dvd9
This is all just preliminary testing I did in the last hour or so, so these are all calculations in progress. Just thought I'd share my findings with the community.
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