Hi again mel, yes burning as data will produce a disc that is playable on your pc, but most probably wont play on your dvd player in the living room. If your using nero to burn disk run start smart fisrst, at the top of which youl c that it says either cd or dvd change to cd, then select burn a data disk from the options,or if prefered select burn a video cd from the same options, this will produce a disc playable on both pc and stand alone dvd players, most dvd players support vcd format now. If burning as data youl need to burn the whole file yes, if burning as vcd nero will let you split the file if need be, tho again this adds time to the process.