AVI Files

[ssaamm]

I am trying to burn 250-300mb avi files to a dvd disk. But as soon as i put them on there files sizes expand, up to 1.5gb-ish. Is there anyways that i can stop this from happenig so i can fit more on the same disk?? Thanks in advance

[poisondeathray]

If they are DivX/XviD files, and your dvd player is DivX compatible, you can burn them as data files, instead of converting to DVD-Video. That way they will be the same quality and filesize

If your DVD player doesn't have this capability, you have to convert to DVD-Video. You can use a lower bitrate , but the quality will deteriorate. MPEG2 is not as compressed as MPEG4-ASP, so you need a higher bitrate/filesize to compensate ( Filesize = Bitrate x Running Time)

[Ai Haibara]

Are you trying to create a DVD-Video disc, or a data DVD?

[ssaamm]

How am i supposed to know if my dvd player is divx compatible??? And if i do need to convert the avi file, what software do i use?

And I trying to burn a dvd video disk.

[AlanHK]

I am trying to burn 250-300mb avi files to a dvd disk. But as soon as i put them on there files sizes expand, up to 1.5gb-ish. Is there anyways that i can stop this from happenig so i can fit more on the same disk?? Thanks in advance

You are probably using a "helpful" burning+encoding application. It thinks you want to make a normal MPEG video, which is rather less compact than an AVI file of the same quality.

If you can tell it to make a data disc, it should just copy the files to the DVD, which will take minutes rather than hours to convert first.
(If you can't work that out, get ImgBurn, which can do this easily.)
That's assuming your player can play AVI files.
If it has something like "DivX Certified" on it it probably can.

Otherwise you will have to convert your files to play them.

[Baldrick]

This is avi to DVD and not DVD to avi. Moving you.

[ssaamm]

i have no idea what your on about. Sorry but i do not have a great understanding of this burning process. I am using nero as the software to burn.