Hi, Why does a 350 mb AVI tv HDTV episode become a 2.5gb chunk of space on a DVD? I was going to burn my 6 downloaded TV shows in HD AVI format to a single DVD (6x350=2.1gb) so I can get them off my hard drive but when I add the first one to the Nero Burn DVD window it shows as 2.5 gb in space usage. I thought there would be some overhead but not this much. Can anyone explain or point me to a explanation FAQ (I read a bunch of faq's and all tell you how to do something but not the why I'm wondering about). Thank You Gary
AVI files are smaller audio & video files than DVD compliant files. you can burn your AVI files to DVD as a data disk and then run the disk on an AVI player! But the standard for DVD is VOB files and that's a different format than AVI files. So if you want to convert the AVI files to DVD compliant files the files come out larger! AVI files are smaller and DVD compliant files are larger....that's just the way it is. and here is a thread that explains it more than I did (which is in it's simplest terms): http://groups.google.pn/group/rec.v...345ad2d930203/6e953c6072a9c12e?lnk=raot&hl=en
Thanx That makes perfect sense now. I will burn them to DVD then as a data disc. The Google thread also explains it quite well - DVD is Mpeg-2, which has a lower compression than AVI. Thanx Lots Gary
@ggevaert I hope you read what IHoe said. You can burn them to a DVD as a data disc but you have to play them on an AVI player. So that means if you want to play these in your DVD player your Standalone DVD player must be compatible with AVI (Xvid/DivX)files.
