More than 700mb on a CD??

Factual Questions
1

I have an avi that I want to burn onto a CDR but it’s 723mb.
Is there any way to get it onto a normal 80min disk?

2

Do you want to be able to play it directly from the CD? - I’m thinking that Winzip might be able to compress it a little (although avi is already compressed, so it might not work- it may even get bigger)

3

split it into 2 files
cut off parts (end credits or intro)
reduce quality

some cd burners can do somehting called overburning to get a few extra megs out of it but it could damage another cd drive that you try to play it on if it’s not able to overburn.

4

If it isn’t in that format already, you might be able to convert the file from a standard AVI to a DIVX file. Should save a few MBs.

I’m sure there’s a convertor out there somewhere if you Google for it.

5

Is it a movie or something. Unless it’s some sort of a computer file, you could probably just chop 23 megs off the beginning or the end, and just lose a couple of seconds of credits.

6

Yes, it’s a movie and it’s DivX. Um, and I suppose that it had to get on my computer somehow and it wasn’t on a CD…

Okay, I downloaded it. Sorry world.
But someone MUST have had it on a CD at some point - Does Roxio Easy CD 5 overburn? What software should I use to top and tail it?

7

Technically, it didn’t have to have been on a CD previously. It could have been ripped from a DVD. My CD burner program makes references to a 99 minute CD, but I’ve never seen one of those.

8

Then why rip a DVD that /nearly/ fits on a CD unless it was destined to be on one. I’ll have to lop off the end I suppose.

Hmmm. 99 mins eh?

9

Somebody’s got Star Wars! Somebody’s got Star Wars!

10

There are 900MB CDs available; check www.pricewatch.com

11

Yeah, pretty cool. They were going to come out with 1000Mb cd’s but decided that DVD are the once and future kings, so it was dropped.

12

There’s a format in the works called XCD (details at www.doom9.org, in the "other A/V formats forum). Plans are to implement a new error correction method to save space on a CD, thus allowing for more than 700MB per 80minute disc. An 80min disc actually has a capacity of 800MB, just 100MB is taken up by error correction (so if the CD is scratched, the file isn’t unplayable). Unfortunately, this won’t work to fix your problem yet. I’d suggest you try overburning, as suggested, to squeeze the extra 24MB onto the disc.

13

1.3 GB CD-R from Dabs.com

14

Blast. It’s a CD-RW actually.

15

Coincidence probably, before the days of high speed internet, moving those 3mb files was a real bitch. (they almost fit on a floppy)

16
  • The problem with overburning is usually that (as far as regular music CD’s are concerned) some radio/CD players will not play the whole CD… - DougC
17

I should add a disclaimer to my earlier link to the Sony 1.3 GB CD-RW disc.

To use it you must be using the right Sony drive, it’s a proprietary format. I should have guessed it would be, being a Sony product.