Software advice

[wondering why]

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]

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

[Ferral]

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]

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]

Yes, The quote below is from Wikipedia

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.

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]

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]

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

[Ferral]

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]

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.....