burning oversize files

[mikc]

I have downloaded a movie of 900meg, and when I try to burn it I am told that it will not fit onto a CD. How can I make the machine understand that I want it on 2 CDs in the normal way? The download software appears to be called Drag'n Drop. For movies under 700meg it works well. Thanks.

[isus]

And why did you make two threads about this?

[silentscream]

u will have to split the file...

which may cause sync errors...

which is nice

get a dvd writer or only get 700 meg films

simple :)

[zpman]

How are you wishing to view this? What type of file is this? Will it be VCD? Please specify when asking questions. Also, one thread is more than enough.

[TiaKo]

Are you trying to burn an MPEG file (i.e. a S/K/VCD)? Because if you are there are ways to do it.... even if you have 700Mb CDs.

[Dark Messenger]

Are you trying to burn an MPEG file (i.e. a S/K/VCD)? Because if you are there are ways to do it.... even if you have 700Mb CDs.

I wouldn't mind knowing this....please share the details and since we're at it I had a 3.7gigabyte mp2 file (mpg2 video capture with ATI Rage Pro 128 card) and I can't burn it to a standard capacity dvd-r because it says the file is too big and tells me to try burning it as udf(sound familiar) anyway tried that and it also failed. Running windows 98se.

Anybody got any info on how to do this....thought I'd post it here instead of making a new thread. thanks.

-Darkman-X

[shawners]

actually a 900 meg file can not be burnt onto a 700 cd.. I think its up to 800 megs that are done by blocks and burnt on.. I would use iso buster and extract the MPEG file out.. and do that to the second disk.. Then use nerovision express 3 to create a dvd.. which you put the two mpeg files on there to convert to dvd.. After that you have TS files which you can view on pc or burn to dvd.

[zarquon]

Use virtualdub and created and split it at the 700mb interval. Couldn't be easier

[mikc]

I posted 2 threads, thanks to those who asked, because I am very stupid.

How do I go about splitting the file?

Thanks again.

[zarquon]

I posted 2 threads, thanks to those who asked, because I am very stupid.

How do I go about splitting the file?

Thanks again.

ARe you using virtualdub?

[DigitalJunkie]

Dark Messenger,

Since it is a mpg file, go get TMPGEnc Studio. It includes mpg tools & DVD authoring tools!

[DigitalJunkie]

mikc,

If your movie is a AVI file, use VirtualDub as zarquon suggested.

If your downloaded moviie is MPG or VOB files, get TMPGEnc Studio mentioned above.

[Dark Messenger]

Thanks DigitalJunkie I will give that a go. btw I'm impressed with ATI's capture performance. I think I've got version 7.0 of MMC and it makes beautiful mpg captures even on an old 500mhz system like mine with windows 98 and plenty of harddrive space.

I'm thinking I may be better off upgrading to windows xp because I hear there are file size limitation in windows 98/se/me that either won't allow individual file sizes of greater than 2 gigabytes and or recognise partitions larger than 4gigabytes correctly.

Any tips tricks or tweaks to bypass these limitations short of upgrading? any patches out there I'm not aware of or anything or is ntfs truly the way to go...and one more thing can win98se use ntfs I was wondering if I could change my fat32 to ntfs using Patition Magic so I wouldn't lose data...anyone know if win98se could read it? I swear I thought there was an option to use ntfs with win98se but its possible I'm mistaken.

thanks for the tip though it helps.

[mikc]

It's AVI. How do I get it onto VirtualDub in order to cut it up?
M

[zarquon]

It's AVI. How do I get it onto VirtualDub in order to cut it up?
M

file -> open. !!!!!!