DIVX file size problem

[sitlet]

hey. i just got DSL like a couple of weeks ago and have started to download high quality divx movies. THe resolution is like 720x480. i dont want to burn them to a vcd because that takes too long. i just want to put the divx file on a cd so i can watch them on my computer. the problem is that most of the high quality movies out there are like 710-730mb. which basically is just a little too much to burn onto a 700mb cd. is there any quick way to get rid of the extra size without re-encoding or cutting a part out? i dont want to take the time to convert or anything like that. does anybody know the fastest way to do this???

[Dauid]

No offence, but some people might look at how many kb a movie is and think that the file is bigger than it actually is.

735 000 kb is not the same as 735 mb, its actually somewhere around 700 mb.

If your files actually are 710-730 mb big, you might try to overburn the cd. Search for a tutorial about it on the web.

[sitlet]

i tried that and it didnt work too well.

i was wondering about zipping it with winzip to get rid of the extra 15mb. but will zipping it and then unzipping it make the movie loose quality?

[Mirror_Image]

This may not apply to your movie, but whenever I capture letterboxed movies from cable TV, I always use Virtual Dub, TMPGenc or whatever to crop off the letterbox areas and then re-add pure black in place of the areas i just cropped (to maintain aspect ratio), and then I encode.

Why?

It often makes the file noticeably smaller. From frame to frame the areas that look black aren't always perfectly black all the time (cable TV captures), and that's more analog garbage being rendered for no reason eating up bandwidth better used for drawing the actual movie (for CBR) or not used and so reducing the overall file size (for VBR).

Take it or leave it, it works for me.

[Davey]

Virtual Dub is a good AVI splitter.