Shrinking a DivX file

[Wizard Zorander]

Occasionally I'll run across a DivX file which the creator decided would be a pleasant joke to make it just above 700 mbs, so it won't fit on a cd. Is there anyway to take a DivX file like that and reencode it with a slightly lower bitrate to make it fit on a CD? and If there is what is the magnitude of quality loss involved?

[Mordant]

There would be a great deal of quality loss, because you would be encoding from an already compressed format.

If a file is over 700 it still will usually fit by overburning the CD...and if not then you can cut some of the end credits in hopes that it will then fit.

Or, you can simply split the film into 2 parts and burn each half on a CD.

[Wizard Zorander]

how do you overburn?

[banjazzer]

The usual way to overburn is with Nero. And the reason they sometimes are a few MB over 700MB is that if you try to encode at the highest quality, you try to fill the CD, and it is impossible to predict the final size with that degree of accuracy. As it takes a long while to encode to DivX, the creator is unlikely to re-encode because it was a few MB over.

If you download a small utility called GSpot http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ you can see what bitrate the audio is. You can then save out the audio to an uncompressed wav using Virtualdub and then recode the audio with a lesser bitrate, creating a slightly smaller DivX.

[Supernova 2k]

Ive found that if you make the divx into a zip it will knock about 10mb's off, even after that if its 712mb it still seems to fit on a disc.