Wee bit OT (PapaJohn?)

A friend of mine has a 100 MB AVI but she has failed in all attempts so save
it to DVD. DVD Burner is OK - or so it would seem...

I thought DVD had a much larger limit (academic now - but should be c.4.7
GB)

She just wants to burn an old AVI to DVD to watch on TV.

Thoughts from the experts?.....

print_maker
Sun Apr 30 21:50:12 CDT 2006

Burning a DVD (a Video DVD, not a Data DVD) means space is constrained by
duration more than by data. Bitrate is involved in determining how many
minutes fit - but filesize of the source file is less relevant. It matters
for quality, but not for quantity that gets onto the DVD.

How many minutes long is this AVI video?
What software is she using to burn the DVD?
Can Windows Media Player play the AVI successfully?

"Mac" <mac@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:uLJauhLbGHA.3812@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>A friend of mine has a 100 MB AVI but she has failed in all attempts so
>save it to DVD. DVD Burner is OK - or so it would seem...
>
> I thought DVD had a much larger limit (academic now - but should be c.4.7
> GB)
>
> She just wants to burn an old AVI to DVD to watch on TV.
>
> Thoughts from the experts?.....
>

PapaJohn
Sun Apr 30 22:14:58 CDT 2006

my rule of thumb is that, when using entry level DVD software, an hour of
video fits on a DVD... and you can add more with higher level software...

the rule of thumb is because of what print_maker is saying....
--
PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 website - http://www.papajohn.org

"Mac" <mac@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:uLJauhLbGHA.3812@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>A friend of mine has a 100 MB AVI but she has failed in all attempts so
>save it to DVD. DVD Burner is OK - or so it would seem...
>
> I thought DVD had a much larger limit (academic now - but should be c.4.7
> GB)
>
> She just wants to burn an old AVI to DVD to watch on TV.
>
> Thoughts from the experts?.....
>

Wojo
Mon May 01 16:32:20 CDT 2006

The other two are absolutely correct and answers to print_maker's questions
will help determine the issue here.
One more question of my own is what exactly happens when your friend tries
to burn the DVD. How/where/when does it fail?
-Wojo

"Mac" <mac@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:uLJauhLbGHA.3812@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>A friend of mine has a 100 MB AVI but she has failed in all attempts so
>save it to DVD. DVD Burner is OK - or so it would seem...
>
> I thought DVD had a much larger limit (academic now - but should be c.4.7
> GB)
>
> She just wants to burn an old AVI to DVD to watch on TV.
>
> Thoughts from the experts?.....
>

jd
Tue May 02 18:43:31 CDT 2006


"Mac" <mac@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:uLJauhLbGHA.3812@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>A friend of mine has a 100 MB AVI but she has failed in all attempts so
>save it to DVD. DVD Burner is OK - or so it would seem...
>
> I thought DVD had a much larger limit (academic now - but should be c.4.7
> GB)
>
> She just wants to burn an old AVI to DVD to watch on TV.
>
> Thoughts from the experts?.....
>

One idea is to get a DVD player that plays AVI and burn it as is without the
transfer, you'll lose some quality anytime compress or change format.