Archiving - need to store my captures to. . .

[vhelp]

Hello all,

I'm looking for the best METHOD store my captures to cd-r.
I know, your just waisting CDs, but I get them pretty
cheap though!
I have so many captures and many, many more to come, and
I don't have the HD space to keep them till I encode them
all. And, besides, right now, I'm having many problems
with encoding and stuff. i'd like to be able to encode
them all at a later time, when it's convient for me.
Again, i'm not concirned with waisting so many cd's - at
least give me some pointers or directions - please!!

Thanks all!!

[KingJohn]

So whats the problem ?. Just put them on a cd as files. No point in trying to compress them further. Just make a regular data cd, fit as many as you can on one cd.

[zzyzzx]

I think his problem is that they won't fit on a CD-R. You can break it into smaller files my using Winzip but that takes forever. About the only thing you can do is use a codec like Divx (post recording, take your .AVI file in virtualdub and select the Divx codec and save it and see how much it gets compressed. Haven't tried it myself but I don't see why it wouldn't work.

[BadAsh]

If you want to move large AVIs or any other large files to a CD-R your best bet is to use WinRAR.

You can load WinRAR, select the file or files you wish to archive, select the size of the media volume (650m, etc for CDs) then it will create compressed or optionally uncompressed archives that can fit on your storage media (whether that be floppy, ZIP Disk, CD-R or DVD-R). WinRAR lets you tell it how big to make the archives.

Once the archive is complete (and this can take a while for large files) just burn the individual files to CD or copy to ZIP Disk or whatever you set it up for.

To restore simply copy the contents of each disk to your HD and Extract the file(s).

I use this method when I capture alot of stuff and don't have time or space to deal with it at that time.

Hope that helps.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: BadAsh on 2001-08-13 11:12:55 ]</font>

[vhelp]

hay BadAsh,

I like your idea, and you and I have something in common. We love to capture, but don't have the time to encode it all.

I do have WinRaR, but I just can't remember wehre I read about a Backup app that will backup to CD as well har HD, Zip, etc. I guess I have some more researching to do.

Thanks for your suggestion(s) and I will take it under advisement.!!

[KingJohn]

Yes but using a compression program means your going to spend a lot of time compressing and uncompressing.

There are many programs that can split a file up without compressing !

[vhelp]

letmeinforgodsake,

Welll. . . you could'v shared a few of them w/ us!

...so we can research this apps and what-nots.

I use google for most of my search (head all!).
Any suggestions to better search engines are alway welcomed!

Tanx!

[KingJohn]

Well I dont use them so could not tell you which is the best, but did a search "File split" and found these;

http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10096-108-73494.html?tag=st.dl.10096.upd.10096-108-73494

"File Split Pro is a program that allows you to split up large files into smaller segments, which can then be easily transported to other places (via Floppy disk, email attachment, web download). You can then combine these segments again at the other end. Shell Extension support - more features.

http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/
Now what's the use of a program like HJSplit? Think of a file of 20 Mb, and try to send this to a friend. Using email this does not succeed, it is simply too large, and how to put it onto a floppy? HJSplit will enable you to split the large file into smaller chunks, which can be much more easily sent and stored.


There is millions of them.

[KingJohn]

Oh, "Take Two" that comes with Easy CD Creator also lets you burn across several disks, but you need to have that darn DirectCD running.

Its used for back ups, but you could put all your mpeg's on one hard drive and use it to back that up.

Nah, file split is quicker

[BadAsh]

Don't forget that WinRAR also lets you simply "store" the file(s) (no compression) while also splitting accross volumes.

When it comes to huge files from captures and whatever, you probably don't want to waste time compressing since that could take you all night. Just have WinRAR create an archive with no compression in the correct volume size you want.

Of course if you could get a true "backup" utility then that would handle things for you as well, of course this needs to be a CD-R capable "backup" utility much like what comes with DirectCD.

While I do have DirectCD, I have never used the "backup" utility so I can't tell you anything about that.

Just go with what is best for you.

WinRAR splitting a file accross CD volumes works for me.