How can you fit a 698mb avi file onto a 700mb cdr?

[keeganskylar]

Anyone know how to copy a 698MB avi movie file onto a 700MB CDR? (Actually the 80min CDR only lets you put 650MB onto the CDR) what do you do? Is there a way to break up the avi file? or a trick to get it to copy onto the CDR because it wont let me copy the file using Adaptec Direct CD do I have to spilt up the avi file if so how ?

Very frustrating because my 700mb (80min) CDR says it will take 700mb but really it will only accept 650mb once you use EasyCDCreator. So what do I do? I have no clue how to spilt up the avi file Any help would be appreciated.

[PhArAoH]

There must be something wrong with your media because 80 minutes CDR can take up to 702 MB.

PhArAoH

[Fred©]

It seems that you formatted your media using UDF standard... UDF has a different way to format the CD, to act like a huge diskette...

try reformatting your CD-RW as ISO9660.... it will not work as a diskette, without the drag and drop capabitilite, but I think you will be able to put the whole file in the CD...

Fred©

[athrak]

Switch to aheads's Nero Burning Rom program. Some earlier versions of NEro won't support 700 meg media, and it's much more stable/reliable.

It is possible of course, that your CD-Burner doesn't support 700 media.. as mine won't support 800 meg media. Go to the manufacturers website, and see if they have a firmware update to let it support 700 meg CDs, (if Nero won't recognise your CDs as 700 megs either). You get can the demo from www.ahead.de - it's about a 12 meg download, but well worth it, as it can burn VCDs with simple menus, SVCDS, and about a billion other options.

[keeganskylar]

Thanks for all the great advice .... I wanted to let everyone know the trick that worked for me was using Nero! Easy CD Creator would not let me burn a 698mb file onto my 700mb CDR but Nero did! Thanks everyone for the excellent help!!