MPG2 TO BIG

[CORRY20]

I have A MPG2 file its 6.12 GB.How to make this smaller to put on my external hard drive.

[SLICK RICK]

Why are you not able to transfer it to your external hard drive with it being 6.12GB?

SLICK RICK

[CORRY20]

I don't know I have pleny of room but it says the file is to large.I got a 80gig hard drive.Can I make this file smaller.

[FOO]

Is your external hard drive a FAT32 system ?

[SLICK RICK]

If it is FAT32 it can not handle anything more than 4GB.

SLICK RICK

[CORRY20]

Even its a 80 gig hard drive? How can I make this file smaller?

[SLICK RICK]

How did you get the MPEG-2 file? Did you encode it from another source?

SLICK RICK

[housepig]

Even its a 80 gig hard drive? How can I make this file smaller?

it doesn't matter if it's a 300Gb hard drive, if it's formatted as a FAT32 file system, it will not accept a file that is larger than 4Gb. It's a limitation in that filesystem.

If you want files that are bigger than 4Gb, you need to format the drive with an NTFS file system, it has no limit on file size.

As for your second question, reencode the file with a lower bit rate.

[CORRY20]

I got it from a VHS tape.

[SLICK RICK]

All you have to do is what housepig said "reencode the file with a lower bit rate."

SLICK RICK

[Vejita-sama]

Corry20 - you really need to provide more info when you post these things. It also helps if you fill out your profile so people know what kind of system your running. Background info about: where you go the file, what you want to do with the file, and your final goal with the file, etc. is always helpful.

So you captured the file from a VHS tape (appearantly directly to MPEG) on a system that's formated for NTSC. But you have an ext HD that you want to transfer it to.

Unless you're running an OS from that ext HD, just reformat it for NTFS (you can try to upgrade to NTFS but several people have problems with that). Based on the (little bit of) info you posted that should work without having to re-encode/capture your MPEG file Good luck...

[FOO]

Of course there is not much use for a 6G mpeg file is there ?