Movies without DVD?

[jellydoughnut217]

i was wondering if you can store movies on a regular cd instead of DVD? Couldnt u just save the video file onto a cd? Or couldnt u even save it onto a floppy? Then wouldnt u just have to open up that file from the cd or floppy and it would play in the designated media player?

 

[StardogChampion]

Yes, you could save it onto a CD if the filesize isn't too big. But it would only be viewable on a PC afterwards.

 

[jellydoughnut217]

thats fine with me, i only want to watch them on my pc, but dont want them taking up so much space. If the filesize is to big would it be possible to zip or compress the file, save it to a cd, and then just unzip or uncompress it whenever i want to watch it? O and i was wondering, on regular cds it says it has a 700mb/80 minute limit, so does this mean even tho i have a file thats 700 mb i wouldnt be able to fit it on the cd becuase its longer than 80 minutes?

 

[StardogChampion]

I don't think zipping a movie file will make it much smaller at all. The only real way would be to re-incode it using a different compression codec, like DivX or whatever. It would take a while to compress though for a 700mb file.

Not sure about the 80 minutes thing, but I don't think it matters.

 

[Adabiviak]

Floppy?

 

[Canadian Gunner]

I think the 80 min thing is for audio.

 

[Adabiviak]

Like 1.44MB floppy?

 

[jellydoughnut217]

Like 1.44MB floppy?

yeah im not familiar with floppy at all so idk if u can store video on it or just documents

 

[diluted]

You can put anything on a floppy as long as it fits. But you'd have a little trouble fitting a movie on a 1.44mb disk.
You can make VCDs (Video CD), a lot of DVD players will read VCDs.

 

[jellydoughnut217]

1.4MB..... damn i feel so stupid right now

 

[Asus]

There are a number of ways you can take Video and save a copy to your PC if you have enough space or re-encode it to smaller resolution to put on 2 CDs (VCD @ 60mins, CVD and SVCD @ 35-45mins per disc).

Check out DVDshrink or go to Videohelp.com for some good guides.

 

[PunisherUSA]

AVIs fit on one CD, but for that compression you start to pay the price. Don't bother on TVs, and it comes out slightly grainy on PCs. Works well if you absolutely MUST have it on one CD.
There are millions of programs to use. Finding good free ones is near impossible. If this is a serious project you plan on repeating, shell out the money for a decent program.

 

[Asus]

AVIs fit on one CD, but for that compression you start to pay the price. Don't bother on TVs, and it comes out slightly grainy on PCs. Works well if you absolutely MUST have it on one CD.
There are millions of programs to use. Finding good free ones is near impossible. If this is a serious project you plan on repeating, shell out the money for a decent program.

Yeah, getting them to AVI (divx) might be a good idea for getting it a lot smaller if you just are playing it on a PC.

 

[duffers20]

I'd say that re-encoding them into divx avi's would be the best option here. You can get a DVD rip into a 700/800mb avi file with teh quality looking pretty good for the size of the file.