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Mikey64
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_ 		22. October 2006 @ 10:14 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hey, I'm new here so I think I'll start with a question.
I'm in the process of making a DVD out of a bunch of TV clips. They are all AVI clips and they are all ~176mb in size "on my hard disk". But when I add them to my video creation using Roxio Videowave 7, They jump up to over 1.5 GB each! And I have ALLOT of these clips (about 50 or so) that I would like to fit on only a few discs (at the most 4-5). So I'm guessing that the AVI files are compressed when on my disk, but when I add them to the DVD, the software un-extracts them so that they will play on the DVD player. Is that right? And does anyone know how I can make these file smaller on the DVD but still be playable on a player (and preferably still have all the cool menu stuff)? Buying a new software is definitely doable for me, if the case leads to it.
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mangpepe
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_ 		31. October 2006 @ 08:04 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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how I can make these file smaller on the DVD but still they will play on the DVD player
Yes you can, Use DVDshrink it compresses the file then plays in most DVDplayers.
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ashroy01
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_ 		31. October 2006 @ 11:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
When you convert from AVI format to dvd-video format, the file is always going to end up exponentially bigger. That's a given.

A way around would be to buy a dvd player that can play avi's. Then, you don't have to convert.
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