703 meg movie, wont fit....

[d3ft0n3s]

yea i just got a new new movie and its divx but its 703 meg and wont fit on any of my cd-r types with nero using overburn. gimmi sum optons

[Krell]

Find AVIchop

Set the size to 700Mb, and a directory to ouput the new movie too.

[FreakinWeasel]

Use virtualdub and cut into two pieces or trim down the credits at the end.

Here is a guide for virtualdub.

http://nickyguides.digital-digest.com/join-split-avi.htm

[cheapprick]

There are probably a 1000 ways to do it easier, but I've always used Virtualdub (http://www.virtualdub.org/) to nip off the last several minutes of the credits.

Just set it under options for direct video dub
do the same for audio

Then select the beginning of the movie for the start and the beginning or so of the credits for the ending and choose save as avi.

It's not perfect and won't work if they did the movie incorrectly, but it's around 90% useful.


* the directions are from memory, my own computer blew up yesterday.

[FreakinWeasel]

Krell, have you used avichop for Divx? The guides say it doesn't work for Divx. But I have NEVER personally used it.

[isamoor]

Haha, I feel dumb.

Yea, I'd try virtual dub, just direct stream it.

Later,

Isamoor

[REDO]

i am just waiting for dvd-burners, and dvd-r's to become cheap enough. Than you will be able to fit the whole movie. They're to expensive right now.

[Krell]

Originally posted by FreakinWeasel
Krell, have you used avichop for Divx? The guides say it doesn't work for Divx. But I have NEVER personally used it.


More often than not, it works just fine. If it DOESNT work, you only wasted 2 minutes as apposed to 30 or so.

Remember that wonderful french film with the beautiful and odd french actress with english subtitles? Its also 703 Mb, and I fixed it in 30 seconds.

[isus]

Originally posted by REDO
i am just waiting for dvd-burners, and dvd-r's to become cheap enough. Than you will be able to fit the whole movie. They're to expensive right now.

i've seen them for $200... how cheap do you want them? you won't see one for $50 like a 52x cd burner in the next year. i promise. might as well just buy one now.

[phalkon30]

I've got two more ways for you

Zip it using the highest compression (I've saved a few hundred k, which was just enough). Then burn that if you can, or use the split function in winzip to make a 700 something meg file, and one that fits on a floppy.

AVI chop is most likely easier though :)

[FreakinWeasel]

Originally posted by isus
i've seen them for $200... how cheap do you want them? you won't see one for $50 like a 52x cd burner in the next year. i promise. might as well just buy one now.

Tiger Direct on clearance for only $129.00 for a 2.4x one. I hear the new 8 speed ones are starting to hit the market so most places are will be blowing out slower inventory and only keeping the 4x and 8x speeds. I saw a 2.4x USB 2.0 external at Office Depot for $150.00, slower one but good deal, the enclosure alone is worth 45-50 bucks.

[d3ft0n3s]

prolly woudl have worked but seeing how as i only have 400 meg left....

this is why i have to continusly burn the stupid thing to cd-r's as they come off the edonkey assembly line.

i have one other movie thats half done so ill prolly burn that and then have enough to chop this one and burn it.

and i dont feel like dicking around with virtualdub again.

PS i got my 52x24x52 cd burner from BTC from frys electronics for 36 $. cant find a cd-r that will go 52 yet, lol.

[HansG]

Have you actually *tried* to burn the file? 703 MB should never be a problem with any brand CD-Rs.
You could always try a 80, 90 or 99 minute CD-R of course.

[Etnies]

Using an 800MB disc you should be able to fit the movie on, they're not really 800MB but allow overburning without damaging you CD drive.

When choosing overburn on nero make sure you also select "disc at once" and not "track at once" in the writing method, as this uses slightly less space so should just about fit on your CD

[phalkon30]

Hans!! Good to see you man, its been a while

[Evil_Dweller_01]

Originally posted by FreakinWeasel
Krell, have you used avichop for Divx? The guides say it doesn't work for Divx. But I have NEVER personally used it.

Ya I dont think it does..AviChop cuts off the sound

I remember I tried using it and I didnt have sound after the cut..although VirtualDub is perfect =)

[HansG]

Hans!! Good to see you man, its been a while Thanks Phalkon! I see you've been busy, man your post count is alarmingly high :)

Not sure how long I'll stay, just came around to see how everything is. And to post a few anti-American posts of course hehe

[markg33uk]

you should be able to burn a 703mb movie to a 700mb disc, have you enabled overburn in the prefs of nero

i've burnt a 712mb film to and 80min (700mb) CDR and it worked with no problems

[Krell]

I can install Nero on a number of systems, and some will overburn, some will not. This depends on the hardware. Sometimes, I can get Overburn to go to 702Mb, but not 703 Mb.

As was mentioned, what format you select also makes a difference. Disc at once or Track at once, . . ISO 1 or ISO 2.

[Foreverboard]

just zip or rar it and it should drop down to 700 or 699. =)

[d3ft0n3s]

hmm fnishe dmy other movie i was downloading and then trie dthe avichop and their was no file size difference. anyway i also noticed that in regular nero it says its 736 meg. so i guess im way over an di only got these 700 meg cd-r's.

im j us tgonan have to have my friend bring ove rmy old HD to get it over to his hosue to watch it then, maybe burn all my cd-r movies over to one dvd using his dvd burner.......but then i dun have a dvd drive... :(

scuse my typo's. its 5 in the morning and im going to bed, enough dickin with this.

[cgfiend]

Originally posted by d3ft0n3s
hmm fnishe dmy other movie i was downloading and then trie dthe avichop and their was no file size difference. anyway i also noticed that in regular nero it says its 736 meg. so i guess im way over an di only got these 700 meg cd-r's.

Actually, the limit for a 700MB CDR is about 734MB. So, if you compress it it will fit.

[The Gauge]

Would definitely use VirtualDub for this. It's a lot more solid and produces good, well constructed AVIs. Not to mention the bad frame scanner you can use to smooth out corrupted frames.

Must say though, I've come across several DivX AVI's that have INCREASED in size when I've done a direct stream copy in VirtualDub. Presumably there was something wrong with the original that VD has had to correct.

[moose head]

:mellow just a quick point use burnatonce go into mastering then choose your avi file then burn it .oh and try using virtual dub mod its a bit more stable .:black