avi files slightly too big for dvd

i have a few seasons of tv shows in xvid avi format. i just wanted to burn them onto a dvd to play in my standalone divx player. the only problem is some of them are barely too big to fit on the dvd and cut a couple of minutes off the last episode. i set overburning to allow it to write all of the data but it just cuts the last part off.


what im wondering is if there is any way to make an image file .iso with power iso of all the avi files at say the 4.7 gigs and then shrink the .iso file a little with something to make it fit to a dvd-5. would this work anyhow, and if so what can i use to do it.

if this doesnt work what is the easiest way to shrink these avis a bit to fit all on 1 dvd?

thanks

 

problem is buddy,converting avi to dvd will increase the size dramatically,and you will never shrink it to the size you need.

 

yeah, i know the size increases if im converting the avis to dvd, but im not converting. i just want to burn the .avi data files to a dvd i have dvd players i can watch them on like that. i have 13 episodes that take up only 100 mb or so more than the dvd holds. i made an iso file out of the files but now i just need to be able to compress it somehow i guess.

 

you wont beable to compress the iso that much

4+gb of converted avi's will be anything around the 15g-20 gb mark i'd guess,and to get that down to less than 4.35gb is just not logical buddy

the only thing i can think of,is chop down some of the avi's,(maybe they got credits or something)
or put them on 2 disks,
or use a dvd-9

 

60 min. of AVI. is one 4.7 disc

 

best thing to do is convert it from avi to dvd an use dvd shrink to shrink it .......might lose quality if u have to shrink it majorly but just something u can try

 

@ rbock

dont that depend on the quality of the avi?,the amount of space it takes up on the dvd.

 

I say that from what i've done with my avi files from my camera some are mov. files converted to avi, some come from my camcorder as avi. the ones from outher sorces I can't tell you only the one I've done first hand

 

I just thought of something convert your AVI to Mov.file nero will burn it to a dvd and should get a lot nore on a disc than just AVI

 

You can also use Auto GK to redo the avi files and set the size smaller.

 

Maybe I don't know enough about this topic to say.......but I compress my AVI's with VirtualDub, xVID MPEG4 codec, and burn to DVD with good enough quality.......works fine for me.

 

If your dvd player is DivX or AVI certified, then your best chance is to burn them as data, meaning put 6 or 7 DivX (AVI) movies and burn them into a 4.7GB DVD-R or DVD+R disc.

If you want to convert any DivX (AVI) into VIDEO_TS (movie files), then any 700MB of DivX (AVI) is roughly 4.7GB or over a single layer DVD-R or DVD+R. That being said, once you've converted into VIDEO_TS or movie files, you'll need either DVD Shrink, Nero Recode 2 to transcode "compress" or DVD-RB Pro to encode, so it'll fit perfectly onto a single layer 4.7 DVD-R/DVD+R disc.

 

Where are all the AVI files comming from downloaded movies? the only ones i get are home movies? (the only way you know something is ask someone who knows)

 

guys....he said he isn't converting to DVD, he simply is trying to burn the avi files directly to dvd to play on his divx player. Therefore he will be burning a data DVD just as mentioned before.

He wants a way to compress the avi files to all fit on one dvd, or batch them together in an iso and compress that.

I wish I knew a way to do this, I was also trying the same thing with the family guy episodes. Good luck, and hopefully someone will actually address your real problem.

 

Here is what I use for AVI. your not going to want to hear this, I got blasted the last time I brought it up. I got this program to record my home VCR tapes of old home movies it turns out to a good program for AVI. files you can do almost anything you want in the edit part. I started with Pinnacle 8 ended up with Pinnacle 10.5 cost about 100.00 bucks but for anyone who wants to deal with AVI files you can't beat it (just kidding) but this is what works for me.

 

You'll have to use VDub (or Pinnacle?? ;-) ) or some other video editing proggy.

Either recompress to a lower bitrate or edit out the opening/ending sequences.

 

As whassup said you'll either have to re-encode (and lose some quality) or trim some credits etc.

 

yeah, what amf0802 said is right i figured that re-encoding the videos was probably going to be the only way, but just wanted to be sure first. i just didnt want to mess with all of the files and hoping there was a way to just compress it as a whole image file. i knew that some people have compressed types of video game isos. i think ill just put all 6 finales on one disc rather than re-encode. thanks for the suggestions though