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[gessler]

hi
im trying to put a few tv shows on one dvd4.7gig , the shows are 350MB each, but when i add one, it straight away says that its used up 4100MB of space . The files i am adding are avi files. What am i doing wrong?

[NickM]

gessler, on Aug 29 2006, 06:07 AM, said:

hi
im trying to put a few tv shows on one dvd4.7gig , the shows are 350MB each, but when i add one, it straight away says that its used up 4100MB of space . The files i am adding are avi files. What am i doing wrong?

I'm pretty new at this but discovered the same thing.  I believe the file has to be encoded to be viewable on a DVD.  The file size for the DVD encoding is much larger than an AVI file.  I believe I read that you can get up to 1 hr of video on a DVD.  I tried using "fit to disc" as a project setting thinking it would "shrink" it to fit, but haven't got that to work (I asked about it in another thread).

[Beerman]

gessler, on Aug 29 2006, 09:07 AM, said:

hi
im trying to put a few tv shows on one dvd4.7gig , the shows are 350MB each, but when i add one, it straight away says that its used up 4100MB of space . The files i am adding are avi files. What am i doing wrong?

AVI files are not DVD compliant and need to be made so.  Your files are obviously divx or xvid or some variation and are seriously compressed and the time and space are 2 different things.  Time is everything.  The best way to do waht you want is to add up to 2 hours of files which will give you a good quality.  If you add more, quality will decrease somewhat. Then, make your dvd and burn to an image file then use Disc Copier to burn to disc.  Even if your finished size is 7 or so GB, Disc Copier will transcode to best quality to fit to disc.