Portable has a slow responce to Disc Why?

[gotfrag]

I just got a Toshiba portable disc player and it says it can read divx, compact disc, and some other types of movies. So, I converted some movies to Divx using the converter that came with the software. I then put one of the movies onto a Memorex CD-RW compact disc. When I put the disc into the portable disc player and press play it took forever for the portable to read the movie. I was wondering did I do something wrong? Or maybe leave the movie as a avi file? Or all movies that are put onto a disc are slow to read?

Second, this kind of relates to the topic of the last question. All dvds, or CD discs only hold about 2 hours of movie space or the quality will drop. I was wondering are there discs only made for the purpose of adding video? Then, I could put all my movies onto one disc without the quality of them dropping.

[guns1inger]

You can fit 3 - 6 Divx encoded movies to a DVD, depending on how big the files are. Burn them as data using Imgburn. Use better quality media to improve read times a little. Some hardware players have to scan all the way through a file to check the index before loading it, which can take a little while. Added to that the fact that most portable units use low quality laptop drives and you get delays.

[gotfrag]

yeah, but after two hours of video the quality goes down. I don't want the quality to the movie to go down or get worse.

Which is what you said in my first thread.

[Ai Haibara]

That's only if you're encoding the videos to a true DVD-Video disc. In this case, you would simply be creating a data DVD - you can fit as many videos as you want on a data disc (or rather, as many as will fit on the disc ), and their quality will not change.

[guns1inger]

yeah, but after two hours of video the quality goes down. I don't want the quality to the movie to go down or get worse.

Which is what you said in my first thread.

You didn't read my post at all, did you ?

Burn the files as data, not as a DVD Video. No conversion, no quality loss.

Use Imgburn.

[gotfrag]

I have nero shouldn't I use that over imgburn?

[guns1inger]

Nope. I can't think of a good reason to even install Nero, frankly.

[gotfrag]

Why is imgburn beter to use than Nero? Is it becasue the software is made for writing movies onto dvds?

[guns1inger]

It is smaller, smarter, and does a far better job than Nero without needing all the crap that Nero comes with. For DVD Video is actually knows how to write files to meet the DVD specification, something Nero doesn't do.

It also doesn't try to re-encode video because it has no encoder or authoring tools built in. It does one thing (burns discs) and does it damn well.

And it is free.

[gotfrag]

kk well, thanks for all the help