BURNING QUESTION!!!!! burning .avi

[personano58]

hi!!! i have a question and believe me i read a lot before asking but something's not clear yet. I read that if you burn a mpeg file for svcd you can put about 800mb on a 700mb/80 minutes cd-r because you burn in mode 2 etc etc...... Me i don't have to convert cause i can watch burned .avi movies on my dvd player and it is burned in mode 2 too but the first time i tried puting more than 703 mb (it was total data to burn 708 mb ) nero told me there wasn't enough space on the media. Is it me doing something wrong or the fact that i burn a .avi movie limits me to the real maximum capacity of 703mb? Sorry for my english hope you understand what i mean!!!!!!!

[ZippyP.]

Since you are burning your avi on to an ordinary data cd, not a VCD, you are limited to the smaller (700Mb) amount.

[personano58]

can i burn my .avi in any other way to get to the 800mb or is it impossible as soon as you burn .avi you'r limited to 703mb????

[Exothermic]

The reason a disk burned in VCD format can hold more data, is because the data is stored in a separate track using raw mode, storing 2334 bytes instead of the usual 2048. This strips out most of the CD-R error correction overhead (leaving simple CRC error detection), thus making the disk prone to haveing read errors. Most MPEG players are forgiving when errors are encountered so this is not as much of a problem as it is with AVI files. It is possible to fool a burning program to put the AVI on the disk in RAW mode, but will your dvd player still be able to read it. Each sector of a VCD track must allow padding bytes at the begining (and end?) of each sector. VCD mpeg files are processed such that this can happen. In an AVI on the other hand, this would have to be done, some how that retains compatibility with playback.

You can cut the AVI file across multiple disks using the following guides:

http://www.divx-digest.com/articles/cutavi.html
or
http://nickyguides.digital-digest.com/join-split-avi.htm

Exo