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burning a 6.54gig video file on DVD's?

Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 8:41 pm
by ToxicBug
How can I do this? Is it possible to split it into two parts?

Re: burning a 6.54gig video file on DVD's?

Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 10:07 pm
by Therac-25
If it's just a video file, instead of DVD files or an iso, you could just split it and author your own DVD with one file on each (assuming you want to use it as a DVD and not just as storage).

You could also reencode it with lower quality so it fits.

Or you could not be cheap and buy some dual layer DVD-Rs.

Re: burning a 6.54gig video file on DVD's?

Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 10:44 pm
by ToxicBug
I have DL DVD-R but they're at my parent's house :)

Its a .mkv file, I don't want to re-encode it, but I was wondering if nero can split it so that it will fit on 2 disks? I'm going to be using it on the computer, not with a DVD player.

Re: burning a 6.54gig video file on DVD's?

Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:15 pm
by obsidian
I don't know if Nero will split it up into separate files, but it can re-encode it. If it's just to transfer the files to another computer to be put together again on the harddrive, try using 7zip or WinRAR to split the file into separate archives.

Re: burning a 6.54gig video file on DVD's?

Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:23 pm
by ToxicBug
Bah, whatever, I'll just burn it onto a DL when I get them from my parents.

Re: burning a 6.54gig video file on DVD's?

Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:56 pm
by Therac-25
For mkv files, there should be something here to split them up.

Re: burning a 6.54gig video file on DVD's?

Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:27 pm
by YourGrandpa
Have you tried DVD Shrink?

Re: burning a 6.54gig video file on DVD's?

Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 12:36 am
by obsidian
He doesn't want to compress the video, so no to DVD Shrink.

Re: burning a 6.54gig video file on DVD's?

Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 4:53 am
by Fender
I did just a little searching, but can't tell if my burner supports burning dual layers. I have an Optiarc DVD+RW AD-7604S ATA. Any help?

Re: burning a 6.54gig video file on DVD's?

Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 5:25 am
by Therac-25
Fender wrote:I did just a little searching, but can't tell if my burner supports burning dual layers. I have an Optiarc DVD+RW AD-7604S ATA. Any help?

Closest model number i can find. All the Optiarcs appear to do DL, so you should be good. My internal drive is five years old, and it burns DL with no issues. Unless you bought yours just as DVD burners were starting to exist, you're fine.

Re: burning a 6.54gig video file on DVD's?

Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 4:49 pm
by Fender
nice, thanks
time to get some DL disks