Copy Big WMV File to CD

[S1L1Y1]

I have a WMV file which is 632MB. I am trying to copy it to a CD but the cd
is only 700MB and when you format the disk I am left with only 571MB of free
space. Does anybody have any suggestions what I can do?
Sol

 

[Galen Somerville]

"S1L1Y1" <s1l1y1@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:elrQU8mFIHA.5360@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> I have a WMV file which is 632MB. I am trying to copy it to a CD but the cd
> is only 700MB and when you format the disk I am left with only 571MB of free
> space. Does anybody have any suggestions what I can do?
> Sol
>
>
If you have to format it, it sounds like a CD-RW instead of a CDR

Galen

 

[S1L1Y1]

Thank you for the reply. You mean the disk? Yes the disk I have is a CD-RW,
now if I use a CDR disk I will be left with 700MB free space?
Sol
"Galen Somerville" <galen@surewest.net> wrote in message
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>
> "S1L1Y1" <s1l1y1@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:elrQU8mFIHA.5360@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> > I have a WMV file which is 632MB. I am trying to copy it to a CD but the
cd
> > is only 700MB and when you format the disk I am left with only 571MB of
free
> > space. Does anybody have any suggestions what I can do?
> > Sol
> >
> >
> If you have to format it, it sounds like a CD-RW instead of a CDR
>
> Galen
>

 

[Tim Slattery]

"S1L1Y1" <s1l1y1@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Thank you for the reply. You mean the disk? Yes the disk I have is a CD-RW,
>now if I use a CDR disk I will be left with 700MB free space?

Yes. If you use your CD-RW disk as a CD-R, I think you'll get the same
result. Fire up your CD recorder software and tell it to burn the
disk, just as if it weren't rewritable.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)
Slattery_T@bls.gov
http://members.cox.net/slatteryt

 

[teebo]

> I have a WMV file which is 632MB. I am trying to copy it to a CD but the
> cd
> is only 700MB and when you format the disk I am left with only 571MB of
> free
> space. Does anybody have any suggestions what I can do?

I'm not sure what you are wanting to do with the 'formatting' of the cd...
...is it a CD-RW and you are using it 'as a floppy' so to speak?

Instead if you just want to save you 632MB file on a cd, you should
use a normal cd-burning program (like Nero Burning ROM) that writes
the file to the cd and then (optionally) closes the cd.

On a "700MB cd" you should be able to write 702MB files
(or 5-10MB more if you enable overburn)


Note: if you instead of saving the file to the cd, want to be able
to play the movie in you WMV-file with a TV-dvd-player, then you have to
select Video CD or Super Video CD instead. I guess the movie will be
reencoded then, but I don't know how much will fit because I don't
have any TV and have never tried that kind of cd-burning.

 

[AlmostBob]

what program creates a FAT on a cd that occupies 129MB, so I know not to use
it
formatting is wasteful,
try a different program
Nero fits 721MB on a 700MB disk with my particular LG burner in overburn
mode


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"S1L1Y1" <s1l1y1@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:elrQU8mFIHA.5360@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> I have a WMV file which is 632MB. I am trying to copy it to a CD but the
cd
> is only 700MB and when you format the disk I am left with only 571MB of
free
> space. Does anybody have any suggestions what I can do?
> Sol
>
>