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hey all,
I've got a dvd burner (on mac os x) and i have blank dvds, except all my dvds that i downloaded are like 7 gb, and thats to big. How to i burn them on to my DVD.

THANX!

Before you do anything take a hammer and smash that piece of crap mac into tiny little pieces. Then split the file and make several dvd's

two words: dvd shrink

google it!

Did you or has anyone tried "DVD Shrink"? Does it work? Does it lose a lot of quality? Thanx

No, you don't lose much of the quality, I use it all the time.

INKA.

dvdshrink is great unless you compress too much, but the dude was using a mac so for him the answer is dvd2one

I use DVD Shrink a lot and never had an issue. I usually strip out foriegn languages to help with compression though

Hey i have some tv shows episodes download from bittornado and i want to make a dvd with then but since they are all .avi or .mpeg files i really don;t know which software to use.

What is the best way to make a dvd from a .avi file?
thanks
esossai

its probably meant for dual layer DVDS they can do 8.6 gigs i believe.

Dvd Shrink is great for anyone watching their movie on a television.

If you have a big huge projector though, it will be noticeablly reduced quality.

Now thats flamebait if I ever saw it.

esossai, there is a great program that will let you convert .avi Divx/Xvid files to DVD. That is VSO DivXtoDVD. It doesn't do much other than convert avi to dvd. But it is a great program and it works fast. And the best thing is that it is free. At least for now, I believe that any later versions of this program will cost you, so get it now while its free.

http://www.vso-software.fr/divxtodvd/divxtodvd.htm

Hey Modroneman
Thanks a lot for you help. That is right what i needed.
esossai

well i've downloaded a movie, and i got a file converter so i could burn a VCD, but my torrent is not an AVI file? i have no idea how to convert this to a burnable format? help please!!??

[quote="esossai"]Hey i have some tv shows episodes download from bittornado and i want to make a dvd with then but since they are all .avi or .mpeg files i really don;t know which software to use.

What is the best way to make a dvd from a .avi file?
thanks
esossai[/quote]

I hope you downloaded a non copyrighted or public domain program, otherwise this would be wrong- so don't_do_it.
However, it is possible to do what your asking, though the process is involved. Doom9.net is a great website dedicated to this and other video questions. They also have many public domain or GPL applications for video conversion tasks.