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Old 09-25-2005
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is it possible to burn movies without a dvd-rw drive? I was thinking, couldnt you just save the movie file onto a regular cd or floppy drive, and then play it on ur computer whenever u wanted? Or is there some other way to burn a movie without dvd-rw? I just want to be able to watch them on my computer, but i dont want them taking up so much space.
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hum you would have to make a ISO and IF it fits on a CD....
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You make whats called a "VCD", which as you would guess, would be a lower quality movie then compared to a DVD.

You'd have to re-encode it to fit a CD, and since most DVD players don't play DivX, XviD, you have to burn it uncompressed. Which means you can only fit about 30 minutes of watchable video per CD

goto http://www.vcdhelp.com for some tutorials
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I rent movies.. watch them... copy and burn them on dvd.. I have like 50 burned dvds just from renting movies lol
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If you like wasting time, or if you have a dual core processor, converting DivX AVIs to DVD-R format and burning them to discs can be a lot of fun.

A better solution is to simply burn the DivX AVI to the DVD or CD (if less than 740mb) directly. If your DVD player can't play it, so what? That's why you have a desktop/laptop computer.

I've found by this simple mathematical model, that converting DivX AVIs to DVD-R format is definitely not worth the time.


subtotaltime = encodingtime + burningtime

totaltime = subtotaltime * 2 = subtotaltime + (time I spent watching cartoons while waiting)

cost = totaltime * average worth per rate of time + cost of CPU electricity

cost > retail price of DVD
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A better solution is to simply burn the DivX AVI to the DVD or CD (if less than 740mb) directly. If your DVD player can't play it, so what? That's why you have a desktop/laptop computer.
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this is exactly what i want to do, however i dont have dvd burner so i was going to use a cd, but they say they only run 80 minutes, is this for audio, video, or both?
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Thats uncompressed audio. Uncompressed video, you can only hold at max about 30-45 minutes.
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