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DavidS7

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Sep 16, 2008
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Hello, I've encountered with a problem here.
Months ago I wanted to burn a DVD, but first I had to make it an image. Its file size is 7.3 GB and my DVD's are of 4.7 GB (as usual).
Does any of you know how to split a disk image to burn into 2 DVDs?

Here's some information you might need:
Kind: DVD/CD-R Master Image
Size: 7.35 GB on disk (7,887,960,064 bytes)

Please help me out!
 
Can anyone explain me a little more?
Will the movie run well if I just split the files as ChrisA told me?
 
I believe he was responding with the thought that it was a data disk, in which individual files could be separated into two groups sized to fit a single layer disk.

As for movies, no that won't work (assuming it is normally ripped and has a VIDEO_TS folder). The original rip appears to have been from a Double Layer disk, so your choices are to either burn it back onto a double layer disk with no compression necessary, or to compress the video to a single layer disk size with Toast or other compression utilities such as DVD2oneX, etc.
 
I believe he was responding with the thought that it was a data disk, in which individual files could be separated into two groups sized to fit a single layer disk.

As for movies, no that won't work (assuming it is normally ripped and has a VIDEO_TS folder). The original rip appears to have been from a Double Layer disk, so your choices are to either burn it back onto a double layer disk with no compression necessary, or to compress the video to a single layer disk size with Toast or other compression utilities such as DVD2oneX, etc.

But I've only got the disk image on my desktop. Look what I've got is THE_MOVIE.cdr and inside there appears the VIDEO_TS folder as you mentioned.
So, what do I have to do now to put it in DVD(s) to be able to see it?
 
Buy a blank dual layer DVD and then copy the image to the DVD. Or you can use Toast to compress it to fit on a single layer DVD. The image quality will be worse than using a dual layer DVD. However, it will not be that bad. I would suggest using the dual layer DVD, as no compression will be necessary.
 
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