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Posted by axm2064 on Jul-10-2003 17:44:

CD Burning issues....help!

ok guys i need some help.....I have a plextor external CD writer that I use for burning my stuff. I have a few divx movies that I would like to burn to CDs. The problem is that these files are on average 750 MB, larger than what a 700 MB CD can hold. Is there anything I can do to compress the files maybe without loosing any clarity or quality of the movies? Is there a way to make the files smaller so that they can fit onto a CD? thanks...

Posted by Turbonium on Jul-11-2003 02:38:

ZIP them maybe? Never tried to myself...

Posted by sym on Jul-11-2003 03:19:

Ya either zip or rar them, or use a file splitter and split it into two? Than burn on two cds.

Posted by moncster on Jul-11-2003 05:03:

Overburning?

Posted by AussieTrance on Jul-11-2003 05:06:

Re: CD Burning issues....help!

quote:
Originally posted by axm2064
ok guys i need some help.....I have a plextor external CD writer that I use for burning my stuff. I have a few divx movies that I would like to burn to CDs. The problem is that these files are on average 750 MB, larger than what a 700 MB CD can hold. Is there anything I can do to compress the files maybe without loosing any clarity or quality of the movies? Is there a way to make the files smaller so that they can fit onto a CD? thanks...

You can buy larger cd's (800MB last time I checked, which was about 12 months ago ), but they're apparently hard to find and your burner must support them.
Apart from that, try winRAR to RaR them up, or split the movie into two and burn them separately
AFAIK, overburn wont burn an extra 50MB, but hey, ive never tried that much, so yeah, could work

Posted by BigDil on Jul-11-2003 09:19:

are you sure they're divx and not just .mpg's? divx files are usually encoded to 699-700 MB.
mpg files can be larger on your hard disk, but you can burn them in VCD format, which allows more data (actually, it's just less error protection than on a "regular" data cd).

Posted by DJ Mikey Mike on Jul-11-2003 09:25:

quote:
Originally posted by moncster
Overburning?

U cant get an extra 50mb by overburning

I think rarring that ****** is ur best option

Posted by sash on Jul-11-2003 09:35:

you could split them into smaller files, so it'll span over two discs

Posted by Intense_Sounds on Jul-11-2003 11:48:

GigaRec, Plextor Premium

Posted by SRP-ReAlign on Jul-11-2003 12:07:

Compressing that file with WinRAR or WinZIP will not do it, cause the DivX codec itself is a compression tool. It just has the advantage that you can see the movie in real time without the need to decompress it before. So I think you must split that file into two parts. I would recommend the tool "Virtual Dub". It is very easy to handle.

a little explaination for splitting movies with VirtualDub:

1. file->open video file (chose the movie u want to split)
2. edit->set selection start
3. move the bar to the point that you want the first part to end (the bar is directly under the movie window)
4. edit->set selection end
5. video->direct stream copy
6. audio->direct stream copy
7. file->save segmented avi

The same with the 2nd part, but of course you must set selection start at the point the 1st part ended.

Done.