avi on cd to cd to play on DVD

[dp600]

I am trying to put an avi file of 698 MB to a cd of 700MB to play on my dvd player using nero express.But the programe tells me ther is not enough space on the cd .Can you please help or must i split the avi file.

Thank you Dave

[theDruid]

The size of the file in mb has nothing to do with the size of the file as a MPEG.

When you ask Nero to burn the movie to disc 'to play on your DVD player' - you must be trying to convert it to VCD or SVCD.

All that matters in terms of the end product's size is the length of the video (in mins/secs), and the bitrate it is encoded at.

VCD has a fixed video bitrate of 1150 kbit/sec in MPEG-1, and audio at 224 kbit/sec.

This is likely to be higher than the bitrate of your avi on file (which I'd guess is a DivX, and probably has a combined A/V bitrate of 800kbps or so).

A higher bitrate (more bits per second) means a bigger file for a given length of audio/video stream.

So, I'd recommend you read some of the guides on this site, and try and do the conversion with some proper tools. Nero is good as a burning app, but it's not up to much as a video encoder.

A very popular, and effective, method of making VCD's from avi's is:

* (optional) - Split audio / frameserve with VirtualDub
* Encode with TMPGEnc
* Author with VCDEasy
* Burn with Nero.

You already have the only of the tools above which is not available as freeware.

Typically, you do have to split movies over 2 or more (S)VCDs.

cheers,
mcdruid.

[dp600]

Thank you .Dave