I use Roxio 6 software and it takes almost all night long for the movie to "encode".  And then, even though the movie (in mpeg, DivX, or other format) will fit perfectly on a CD at 700 MB, its suddenly too large for a 4.7 GB DVD??!!  What am I doing wrong?\n\nI am using XP Home Edition\nIntel Celeron CPU 2.20 GHz\n512 MB of RAM\nNearly 15 GB of free space left on my hard drive (although I could easily get that increased, but I dont think that's the issue).
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first celeron is to slow for media processing\nyou have to check the speed of your dvd rw \nthe problem is that you have to change it to dvd format
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Yes, you can always change the bit-rate down. I can hear the difference at 64kbps. It sucks. My library is backed up at 192 kbps and sounds fine. I have since upgraded to a dual layer dvd burner & have been thinking up re-doing the whole thing to an even higher bit-rate but am unsure when more stops increasing quality. I believe cd quality is referred to by Windows Media Player to be approx. 128 kbps. I think the extra space/size helps when copying or burning. A small blemish taken from a music file 3 times the size will not be as noticeable as one noticeably smaller. Just my opinion.
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Hi,\n\nWhat conradj213 is saying, is to make a backup of a DVD. You don't rip a DVD that way.\n\nSo you want to convert a DVD to a AVI. The .avi format is one file that fits to one cd, if you increase quality it can fit on 2 cds. (thats the standard)\n\nSo now you will tell me, how to do it.\nIf you wish to purchase a product (very cheap)\nhttp://www.imtoo.com/ does the job CORRECTLY and EASILY...\n\nBut if you want to do it free, it requires some steps...\nPlease follow http://www.divx-digest.com/articles/dvd2xvid_gordianknot.html\n\nSearch this website for more tutorials http://www.divx-digest.com/\n\nRemember to follow them AS TOLD! After you rip one dvd the next one will be easy!\n\nIf you need help I could help you on it, but read that website first :)
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The ISO format is compressed. It means when you burn it extracts the file on CD&#92;DVD. 700MB ISO file won't fit on a CD. Even if it fits you still won't be able to play it in DVD player. You have to burn it on DVD. Good luck
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I think you download the movie or video the same as the music and take the same steps, but you need to have a DVD writer......your CDrom has to have the capabilities to download movies.  Don't quote me....I could be wrong.
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why would you want to compress it from 350 to 300 ???  ..  for starters...  you wont be able to compress it using ZIP/RAR/7zip or any other compression method....  and btw.. ISO and BIN are not compressed... they are images only... they dont shrink or compress...     only thing you could try is to convert it to mp4 which might compress it a little more but im not sure since i've never tried it and mp4 is fairly new...     sounds like you might want to compress it to fit on a CDR or DVDR along with other stuff .. if so... then you might have to get rid of some of the other stuff....
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An excellent site to look for the type of program that you require is http://www.download.com  (Type MPEG to DVD in the search box and press Enter, or, if you're sure this is the program for you, enter the name DVDBuilder 2.7)\n\nOn about the fourth page in, I found DVDBuilder v2.7.  I've never used it, but it claims to "Convert DVDs out of MPEG files".\n\nGive it a try and see what you think.\n\nBTW, most of the files I found listed are Shareware, meaning you have to pay for them if you find them useful, but there may be other programs in pages further on.  It says there are 393 pages of 10 items per page (up to 3,930), so that should give you something to do.\n\nBest of luck.\n\nI hope it does it for you.\n\nAdditional Info: I've just installed DVDBuilder v2.7, but it only deals with MPEG-2 files.  I don't know if this is what you've got.  Sorry.
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Win/Avi/Dvd converter\n\nhttp://www.winavi.com/en/products.htm\n\nBut most movies will not fit on a single disk (usually takes 2 regular cdr's), this program cuts the movie at 600megs. This is if you are using cdr's opposed to dvdr. Cdr allows you to create vcd's which are playable on all dvd players but use normal cds. \n\nYou can use nero to add a title screen and chapters too if you want.
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Use NeroVision express..\nThe movie automatically gets compressed according to the requirements with almost zero quality reduction.
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The size does sound a little suspicious.  It's possible it may just not be a complete package.  Hard to tell until you've unzipped it and let the anti-virus software have a look at it.  \n\nI just downloaded the complete Roxio Easy Media Creator 8.0 as a torrent file, and it was over half a gig, packed.
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DVD Shrink will compress your movies to fit on a 4.7GB hard disk.\n\ndivx is good but you need a divx player.
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First at all remembert that it is illegal in the US and in some other countries to "backup" the dvds.\n\nThere is a program call dvd decrypter that you can use to copy the DVD to your PC cracking the protection on them. You can not just copy the dvd to your pc. It is just simple as push a button.\n\nHowever most DVD are 7.2Gb and DVD-R generally are 4.5 Gb, so there is a program dvd-shrink that can be use to reduce to the desired size of the dvd. Here you can decide which part reduce most, you would prefer keep your main movie as the most quality available. You also can skip extras o additional languages to reduce the size.
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First, movie files are big. Get a program called DVD-shrink\nThis program should allow you to put more than one file on a\nDVD, because, as I said, movie files are quite big, the\nprogram will compress them, It depends on how many files you want, the more files, the more compression, the less quality.
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typically dvd's run about 4.7 gigs for one side of a disc\ndivx movies are dvd quality but only take up about 800 meg's\nCrappy low quality movies can be around 100-200 meg's\n\nHope that helps you.  I would go for a 250 gig drive because soon you wont be able to get anything less than 120 gig's.
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Download an excellent program called Super C from erightsoft.com and install to your PC.  (it's clean and free)\n\nFind out what formats your downloaded movies are (avi, mov, mp4, wmv, etc).\n\nUse the program to transcode (select file and drag to the program, then choose DVD as output).\n\nIt might take a while, but that's the case with most transcoders (free or otherwise).\n\nGood luck!
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This operation (ripping and transcoding high quality files) is one of the most demanding, so it's always going to be sort of slow. One way to speed it up is to choose a relatively low quality codec (MPEG1, for example, rather than Divx or WMV).\n\nI've used Magic DVD Ripper and found it quick enough, but then again it was a fast PC with 2GB of RAM.
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the only way to really reduce their  size it to re-encode  them using a different codec that offers a higher compression level. This is a time consuming operation and is often lossy, that is to say you will lose quailty.\n\nMany of the files that you have are probably divx or xvid \nthese are high compression codecs so you would not gain anything by re-encoding them.\n\nIf you had DV video from a digital camcorder however you can save a lot of space by compressing them with divx or xvid.\nbut remember you will lose quality. I would recommend using dvd authoring sotware to make dvd backups of these videos and not compressing them so that you have the highest quailty video. \n\n\nThe main point is that most video that you use has already been compressed and the only way to reduce the file size is by a loss of quailty.\n\nI would recommend you buy a dvd burner or a external hard drive   to store your files and free up space. this is  basically the only way to free up space and keep your files. (uncompressed video excluded)\n\n\nalso- when your zip or rar a compressed video file it is like zipping a file twice. you will see very little improvement if any at all.