Software advice

wondering why · #1 February 26th, 2006

Hi guys...
Has anyone got any advice on what program I could use to cut an AVI file in half, so it can be burnt onto dvd...The file size is currently 1.10Gb in size....
Many Thanks......

Grandpa · #2 February 26th, 2006

Not sure what you are wanting to do most DVD's will hold 3 gigs

Ferral · #3 February 26th, 2006

AVcutty
http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=AVCutty
should do what you want. Have not tried it though, I work with Mpeg2 format mostly, just happened to read the blurb, and download it "just in case"!

wondering why · #4 February 26th, 2006

Hey Guys...
Well you see a freind sent me a movie and its 1.10GB and usually the movies I download are between 600 and 700 mbs, so I thought that size would be to big to fit onto dvd...
Now Im confused lol...
Grandpa so it doesn't have to be shrunk down and it will fit onto a dvd is that what your saying......

Grandpa · #5 February 26th, 2006

Yes, The quote below is from Wikipedia

Quote:

DVDs are made from a 0.6 mm thick disc of polycarbonate plastic coated with a much thinner reflective layer of aluminium or gold. Two such discs are glued together to form a 1.2 mm disc that can be designed to be read from one side (single sided) or both sides (double sided). The substrates are half as thick as a CD to make it possible to use a lens with a higher numerical aperture and therefore use smaller pits and narrower tracks. Discs commonly come in 8cm or 12cm diameters.

Quote:

A single-layer DVD can store 4.7 GB (4.38 GiB), which is around seven times as much as a standard CD-ROM. By employing a red laser at 650 nm wavelength (compared to 780 nm for CD) and a numerical aperture of 0.6 (compared to 0.45 for CD), the read-out resolution is increased by a factor 1.65. This holds for two dimensions, so that the actual physical data density increases by a factor of 3.5. DVD uses a more efficient coding method in the physical layer. CD's error correction, CIRC, is replaced by a powerful Reed-Solomon product code, RS-PC; Eight-to-Fourteen Modulation (EFM) is replaced by a more efficient version, EFMPlus, which uses eight-to-sixteen modulation. There is no subcode as in CD. As a result, the DVD format is 47 percent more efficient with respect to CD-ROM, which uses a "third" error correction layer.

wondering why · #6 February 26th, 2006

Now whos the Goose, I just looked on the dvd and it does say 4.7GB, I've just sent the file to dvd shrink and the dycrypter to burn and all along I could of just used my dvdsanta....

I will cancel it and use santa instead...
Thanks for your time...
Cheers

wondering why · #7 February 26th, 2006

BTW thanks Ferral for the heads up on the software, it seems a handy tool to have.....

Ferral · #8 February 26th, 2006

No worries, if your converting back from AVI to mpeg2 or DVD, about 1.3 or 1.4gig is probably as big as you would want to go for converting to 1 std 4.3gig DVD, without getting unecessary quality loss.

wondering why · #9 February 26th, 2006

Cool thanks for that, I dont know what I was thinking, probably because the files I usually deal with are a bit smaller or they come in 2 parts.....

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