[airtas]

I am using the divx to DVD option, I have an AVI file its 718 mb is that taken up the whole DVD size or do I have 3 more gigs I could fit?


the green bar on bottom also says excellent, why?

[Brendon]

A 700 MB AVI file will comfortably hold a 90 - 120 minute movie, because it is compressed video.
A movie that size will fill up a DVD when you expand it back to full size to put it on DVD.

The quality bar at the bottom will say excellent if the movie will fit on the DVD without having to be recompressed. It turns a different color if the film needs to be compressed to fit, and finally goes red and refuses to work if the film is so big that extreme compression is needed.

[airtas]

A 700 MB AVI file will comfortably hold a 90 - 120 minute movie, because it is compressed video.
A movie that size will fill up a DVD when you expand it back to full size to put it on DVD.

The quality bar at the bottom will say excellent if the movie will fit on the DVD without having to be recompressed. It turns a different color if the film needs to be compressed to fit, and finally goes red and refuses to work if the film is so big that extreme compression is needed.

Ok so I was playing around and added the same movie 6 times and it still stayed green and said excellent after 15 hours of buring I got a buffer under run error......what exactly happened and what didnt the Video Compliation program tell me im assuming the error was the project was too large?

[Brendon]

What exactly happened? I think you did something silly and got an appropriate result.

You obviously have a lot more time to spare playing around than I do, so I'll leave you to it. Good luck.

[airtas]

What exactly happened? I think you did something silly and got an appropriate result.

You obviously have a lot more time to spare playing around than I do, so I'll leave you to it. Good luck.

the problem is it doesnt tell me how close I am to filling a disc

[sknis]

the problem is it doesnt tell me how close I am to filling a disc

Why do you want to ?

One hour of video on a playable DVD (not data disc). Up to two hours on a DVD if you reduce the quality. You should have an idea on how long the video are. No one should rely on a computer program over commom sense.

Since you want to put as much as you can on a DVD, stick with the DivX format and go out and buy a player that will handle DivX format.

It surprises me how many people want to save a few bucks to cram full a DVD since they are pretty inexpensive when boought on-line in larger quantities or buy the cheapest DVD blanks available. These are the same people who complain that they can't watch a DVD because of scratches and other damage they or their kids inflict on the disc or because they put important videos on the cheapest discs they can buy.

Is it really worth it?