how do i fit 700 mb + file on a 700 mb cd-r?

[e-z-e]

i tried with ulead to fit a 784 mb svcd file on a 700 mb cdr and it was very choppy. i have heard that you can fit 800 mb on an 80 minute cd, so how do i do this and what program is best for it? my cd-rs and burner do support overburning.

[Baldrick]

any overburning is not necassary because vcd and svcd are burnt in mode 2 form2 and then you can store about 800 mb on a 80 min cd.
http://www.vcdhelp.com/faq.htm#740
you could try with cdrw or maybe has the svcd too high bitrate that make it choppy.

[e-z-e]

so do i have to use any special options if i burn with nero 5.5, or does it automatically do what it needs to do to fit more than 700 mb

[ratt794]

The actual capacity of a VCD / SVCD is 846 Mb for an 80 minute CD. Since the data is written in Audio Mode without the extra layer of error correction. 80 minutes x 10.584 Mb per minute = 846 Mb is the Limit.
(1 Mb = 1,000,000 Bytes)

I do not recomend overburning - 80 minute CD's are allready overburns by 6 minutes as the design standard fro a CD is 74. They squeeze 80 by placing the pits closer together on the disc. I have never personaly overburned but I would not recomend it. Bit error rate will skyrocket beyond the 80 minute point.

Regards,

Rob

[e-z-e]

so when i drag the mpg in nero and drop it in the burning thing i shouldnt worry about it if it exceeds 700 or even 800 mb? will it even burn if i do this?

[ratt794]

Yes - Nero Will do this. I just remembered I did one a while back that was about 830 Mb - or just below the 80 minute limit. This was in SVCD mode. I think it was 78:56 total time out of 80:00

Nero will tell you if your file is too big also. Just remeber the rule of 10.584 million bytes per minute times 80 minutes and then subtract about 1 Mb for directories / menus. This is the absolute limit. To be safe stay under 845,000,000 file size (actual Bytes).

[e-z-e]

i burned it, and low and behold, it worked. on the first disc though i noticed a few errors. is this probably an error in the mpeg-2 file, an error caused by me burning it at 8x, or an error caused by the lack of error protection when burning a 800 mb+ file?