2GB movire

[Leody]

Hi, in AutoGK there s a predefined size of video of 2GB, it s mentioned that it s maximum capacity for DVD-R. First, is it a limitaion of "one file" since DVD-Rs accept 4,7GB, and if we do a 2GB XVID video, then is this possible to dump the original menu of the DVD and modify it for it s launching the XVID movie when we choose "play" to read the film ?

Thanks.

[manono]

Hi-

You do know that you won't be able to play an .avi burned to DVD-R in a regular DVD player, don't you? It has to be encoded to MPEG-2 and authored for DVD. .avis can be played in DVD/MPEG-4 players. Anyway, yes, 2 GB is the max size per .avi file to be played in a DVD/MPEG-4 player. And, no, there's no way to use a menu.

[Leody]

OK, I asked this because I got a DVD/MPEG4 player.
A last question :
do little DVD-R exist ? where can we find it ? u know in our cd or dvd players we have a second diameter for little discs, it would be really interesting to burn hihg definition divx or xvid.

[manono]

Aren't those called Mini-DVD? I've never seen one, though. And where I am, the small CDs are more expensive than the regular ones, so maybe the mini-dvds would be too expensive, too. I don't really know, though.

Good going on the MPEG-4 player. I wasn't sure you had one when I first replied. Sorry.

[jggimi]

There are little tiny DVDs available wherever they sell digital camcorders. (I just bought a DV camcorder this week, and saw a few stacks of them right by the camcorders with built in DVD burners.) According to the DV Forum FAQ Q7 (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=30495):Hitachi recently created a camcorder using DVD-RAM as storage medium. The video is stored in MPEG-2 format. A 1.4 GB DVD-RAM is sufficient for 30 minutes recording time.