What ho guys and gals,

I want to put a number of animation files, formatted as avi / flv / mpg files onto a DVD. To date, the total size is less than 4.7gb (it is actually about 4.4gb) but I have found the if the total size is about 4.4gb, I get a disk full message before I can burn the disk.

The answer is simple, reduce the size of the largest avi file, which is currently 762,968kb to around 600,000kb would be fine.

But how? I have a number of conversion programs, and even VLC, but everything I do, the file is either about the same size or larger. None of the programs give an estimated output size that I can see. Also, I know I can change the bit rate, output size, etc, etc. but I don't know what any of these actually is doing to the quality. A couple of the films are about 1.5 hours long, the file is about 270,000kb and the quality looks just fine on my 22" monitor. Not perfect but good enough for a late night watch.

how do I reduce the file by just a little bit?

Thanks and toodle pip

Rex