Ok guys need help total newbie. I have bought a DVD burner and am wondering how to go about backing up my movies. For instance have a movie that is 6.5 gb as reported by windows explorer, obviously my drive can only burn 4.7 Gb how do we go about doing this?

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DVD2SVCD (from www.dvd2svcd.org ) is the simple solution if you want the movie only. Works for me.

http://www.dvd2dvdr.com/index.htm
http://www.doom9.org

Here is my proble. I have a hp dvd writer 200i and can burn mp3's and misc. but i want to burn movies. i am having a disc size issue. disc's are to smaal and do not have enough room to burn. is there a program or programs i can acquire to be able to burn my dvd movies?
HELP!!!!



tyvm: Paladin197

Welcome to the forum.

If the movie is to big to fit to a std DVDR disk, then it has to be re-encoded to a slightly lower bitrate (hence a smaller file), re-authored and burnt. Have a read of this tut, its intended for DivX to DVDR but load the dvd ifo file in instead. http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread....threadid=61142

Then there is the program dvdxcopy from 321 Studios (see advert above), iI havent tried it yet but it appears it can split a large DVD to fit to 2 DVDR's.

to make dvd=>dvd-r look the tutorials that are here

http://doom9.org/

go to
THE GUIDES => DVD AND MINI DVD GUIDES => BASIC GUIDE (under IFOEDIT GUIDES)

Try the "DVD9 to 2xDVD5" (or maybe it's "DVD9 to 2xDVD-R") guide from Doom9 if you don't want to have to re-encode and lose quality. It shows you how to split the movie to 2 discs. Also, depending on how many different audio and sub streams there are, you could use the VOB Extras function of IFOEdit to remove the unwanted streams and see if that makes the movie fit on 1 DVD (but without the special features if there are any).

(I had one yesterday that was about 5.5 gigs with 5.1 audio and a commentary track, no subs. I ripped out the commentary and wound up about 100 megs too big for a DVD-R. Talk about frustrating...)

which DVD2SVCD files do i need to down load and will i be able to fit a 7.9 GB movie on a 4.9GB disc?



tyvm: paladin197

DVD2SVCD, just get the latest from its home page at www.dvd2svcd.org You will also need an encoder such as TMPGenc or Cinema Craft Encoder v 2.50