eh?

[matchless]

how come when I download a film it says it's 700 odd MB yet when I go to burn it onto a DVD it says it's 4 odd GB?, so just how much have I downloaded, is it 700MB or 4 GB?

[RobDickinson]

What have you downloaded, what format, and how are you burning it?

An image file will likely fill the whole disk, yet be smaller...

[mcflurry]

Is it an ISO image, and instead of burning to cdr you have burnt to dvdr?
or the copying software has converted it from divx to vob?




>> Edited by mcflurry on Thursday 26th January 22:25

[matchless]

I have for example downloaded monty pythons life of Brian in AVI format and it says it is 701MB, yet when I added to burn in nero it said it was about 4GB, is this as it adds something to enable playback on a DVD player?

[jimmyjimjim]

Your burning software has transcoded from the original avi/mpg to the dvd format files. Personally, I'd have a look at the dvd player you intend to play the disk on, and see if it supports anything other than dvd's - it might do video cd's, or support divx movies, in which case you should just be able to tell your dvd burning software to burn a data dvd instead, and same time and space.