Need help with burning files

[CrackedButter]

I have this 500 meg avi file and i want to make a VCD out of it. If i select VCD its says i need 800megs of disk space, so with that i insert a DVD and select DVD-video but now its says i need 4.8 GB's of space...how come? This is confusing and annoying because i want to have this movie on disk.

However, if i burn this 500 meg on a data disk it fits on fine on either CD or DVD.

I'm using Toast btw.

[irmongoose]

Basically Toast sucks at converting the file. Use ffmpeg (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/15473) to convert the avi to either an MPEG-1(VCD) or MPEG-2(DVD) file, and then burn that file with Toast.



irmongoose

[CrackedButter]

What difference does it make?

[irmongoose]

You can set the file size of the resulting MPEG file, so it will actually fit on a CD or DVD.



irmongoose

[CrackedButter]

ah thankyou, i have already encoded a file and i am burning it now, hopefully it will work. Just doing a test at the moment however.