movie downloads
 

I've never tried to download a movie do I have to shrink it or anything. If not after I watch the movie can I delete it from my hard drive.

Best way to do it with the highest quality is to buy/borrow the movie. I say that b/c most movies you'll find to dwnld will have already been dramatically reduced in size. Consider most dvd movies take up b'w 6-8 GB & you dwnld a movie less than 1 GB or less than 700 MB then how much quality do you really expect. Watch it & toss it! It will have already been reduced in size so much I'm sure it won't look 'that' great compared to the original on a TV in particular! (but then again the ways the average non-digital tv works maybe will have a smoothing/almost blurring fx that'll trick the eye!) You deinitely won't need to reduce it in size & wouldn't be recommended.)

I think you'd be struggling to backup a 750 Mb movie to 700MB or less using any normal file compression technique in any case. Video doesn't & never has compressed very much or very safely using techniques such as zip/sit/other similar format. Video, to my experience & training is the most easily corrupted transporting & of course takes the most strain of the processor & ram when processing (let's leave 3d aside for a moment.) Personally I'v persistently had problems transporting video (particularly if it was on a cd as a back up.)

Prless: I'm sure it can be decent. But many factors can play a part. And how many out there really have the knowledge/finetuning exp to make it a reasonable output (not to mention the apps they use good/crappy.)

I've never attempted to overburn a disk. How much xtra (potentially) can you fit on. It just sounds risky to me, particularly if its reliability depends on the quality/abilities of the particular device it's played back on. I suppose/guess that's the risk you take - if it plays on some (particulrly one you have) it's worthwhile.

Yes better know what your doing :)

I would use dvd shrink, there is alot of program you can use today as well. They also make a 800mb disk as well.

Learn more here, they have lots of guides to learn to do it your self ;) I also Mod there but not as much as I would like to, just don't know every single program and don't have like all the time in the world to learn them all lol.

click here to goto Dvd-guides

Nice to see you've added a Mac section to the Dvd-guides forum. And it sits near the top of the list. Good stuff. But it seems to be missing quite a number of alternative tools in the sticky 'Mac Tools useful for Video and Audio' which surprises me galore. Great idea though.

More is going to be added in time. Afonic is in need of good help with people that know about many of these programs. So if anyone would like to help out and become one of the MOD team there and help out. Tell them
PostMaster Sent you to help out :D

:)