avi mpg too long

[jbod66]

Hi, yes this might sound silly,,,, but i have download a film and want to put it on vcd svcd dvd. i have a dvd burner. and am using nero. even if i choose dvd 4.7gb when i got to burn it say there is not enough space on the disc. the downloaded file is app 700mb. what am i doing wrong? ta jane

[KM]

vcd, svcd, and dvd are 3 different types of disk

vcd and svcd are formats that fit on a normal CD, dvd is... well, a DVD

if you burn as a VCD or SVCD then it will likely need splitting because its not the file size in the current format that matters - its the file size after its been converted to a VCD or SVCD that matters (those formats dont have very good compression compared to the common codecs used for AVI files)

[dap OLD werewolf]

You cannot make a vcd or svcd per say on a DVD, i.e. you cannot burn it AS a vcd or svcd. Hence why they're called Video CD or Super Video CD. The only way you can burn a vcd or svcd onto a dvd is as data, or convert to dvd format, and to do that I wouldn't choose to use a burning application, as you will probably need to shrink it as well. So either burn the vcd/svcd onto a cd if you want it to play on a standard stand-alone player, or else burn it as data and buy an mpeg4 (avi-compatible) standalone dvd player which will play.

KM, I wish you'd stay out of this section, you talk a bunch of nonsense.

[dap OLD werewolf]

Btw, you can burn 800+ mb vcd/svcd files on 700 mb cdrs.

http://www.rita.LT/video_tools/help/bytes.htm

[KM]

KM, I wish you'd stay out of this section, you talk a bunch of nonsense.

i was giving a perfectly valid response to the question... explaining what DVD, VCD, and SVCD where - ad the fact that only DVD's go on DVD's