CDs & Music Burning Question

marcus · 15 Jul 2005, 09:13 (Ref:1356050)

Howdy Folks

I have a question about burning stuff onto CD's

I have an avi that is about 680 MB and Ive been trying to put it on a CD-RW disk that is alledgedly 700 MB but when i go to burn it there is not enough disk apce ???

Ive been burning music for years but havent really done alot of movies or film clips.

so am I missing something along the way here or is 700 MB just not a true figure on a CD ???

any help would be appreciated

pirenzo · 24 Jul 2005, 22:10 (Ref:1362386)

My guess is that it's not in fact 680 megs but somewhat more. When you go the avi file properties it should give two files sizes. Check what 'size on disk' is.

Kidzer · 24 Jul 2005, 22:21 (Ref:1362391)

Should size on disk matter? AFAIK that's only there because of your HD's cluster size, its how much it takes up on HD, as opposed to 'File Size' which is the actual size

Dutton · 25 Jul 2005, 06:20 (Ref:1362549)

Although it is addressing the symptom rather than the source, have you tried over-burning as a temporary solution (if it is anything urgent)?

**Dani Filth** · 25 Jul 2005, 08:53 (Ref:1362652)

use Disk at Once DAO .. and enable over burning
.. is it an already used CDRW ?? maybe it has done it's life RW cycles . try a recordable one and not RW

**Aysedasi** · 25 Jul 2005, 11:32 (Ref:1362838)

I doubt you'll get 680 on a 700 disk. When I used to burn to CDs I used to limit myself to about 650 meg. If its a reasonable quality, you're better off conveting to DVD (with something like the excellent WinAVI video converter) and burning a DVD.

**Dani Filth** · 25 Jul 2005, 12:20 (Ref:1362899)

i've burned +720 Mb on a 700Mb disk ..
if u use short lead out option in Nero you can burn an extra 14 Mb if i remember .. plus from overburning ..

**Aysedasi** · 25 Jul 2005, 18:43 (Ref:1363142)

I rarely use cds now. Far easier to burn DVDs.

**Dani Filth** · 26 Jul 2005, 05:19 (Ref:1363441)

you can have the same problems with DVDs .. but with files bigger than 4GB ..

Dutton · 26 Jul 2005, 07:27 (Ref:1363502)

Then you get the compressors into action!

marcus · 26 Jul 2005, 09:12 (Ref:1363583)

wow i'd forgotten about this thread.

thanks for the responses guys but I simply ended up putting it on DVD instead

the problem I think was that yes the file was 680MB but was about 1 hr 45 mins long.

normal disks can only hold about 80mins of footage so Im guessing the length of the clip is more important than megabytes in this case ???

**Dani Filth** · 26 Jul 2005, 11:14 (Ref:1363667)

nope . the 80 mins . is about CD audio lenght
best example .. when burning mp3 .. 700mb of mp3s is about 10h music

marcus · 27 Jul 2005, 08:30 (Ref:1364416)

oh well then I dont know

it must have been just that file because today i made a VCD for my nephew and it fitted perfectly onto 700MB with several little files .

**Aysedasi** · 27 Jul 2005, 12:19 (Ref:1364618)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dani Filth

you can have the same problems with DVDs .. but with files bigger than 4GB ..

How many individual files do you have over 4gig?

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