Evening all, seem to be having a slight problem with a bunch of DivX files I'm trying to turn into a DVD. I've tried two bits of software with the same result (DVDit 6 Pro and Ulead DVD MovieFactory). I have 25 x 350mb files, and I'm trying to put as many as possible onto a DVD with a static menu, small audio loop, nothing too fancy. The problem comes when adding the files to the disc. Although they are 350mb, when they are added they show as over 2gb each! I haven't got a clue why this is, although I am new to DVD authoring so I'm hoping somebody will tell me I'm doing something very simple very wrong! Any help, greatly appreciated...
If you have a DivX capable player, then you can just burn them as data. What's happening to you though, is the files are being encoded to mpeg-2, which is necessary for DVD. You're not doing anything wrong Because mpeg-2 compression is nowhere near as high as DivX, the files "grow". Filesize has almost nothing to do with how much fits on a disk, when using avi's. The final bitrate of the mpeg determines filesize. Higher bitrate, bigger files.
Blimey, I didn't know that about bitrate determining space on the disc as opposed to the original size. As for the DivX capable player, I do have one, but the parents don't, :rollyeyes: sigh! Cheers for that.
