":Jerry:" wrote in message
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| "neil f" wrote in message
| news | Hi folks.
|
| I recently transferred a bunch of Super 8 sound home movies to
| video, using
| wall projection and firewire from a Sony video camera. The final
| results
| (after many trials and experiments) seem excellent to my eye. I'm
| keen to
| copy the films onto DVDs and spread them around various family
| households
| for viewing and safe keeping. However, whenever I try to save the
| uncompressed AVI files to DVD they end up much smaller than the
| original in
| file size (and therefore probably lower resolution) and I get an
| error about
| an unknown codec when I attempt to playback.
|
| I did all my editing and flicker removal etc in VirtualDub and
| always saved
| as 'uncompressed AVI'. Each 3 minute film is therefore about 5.4GB
| in size.
| I was thinking of getting a dual layer Blu-ray drive so I could save
| a
| number of films to each DVD. But unless I can find a way to save the
| files
| to disc uncompressed and in a readable format I might as well save
| my money.
| What I really want the system to do is save a byte-for-byte copy of
| the
| original without any mangling along the way. Is this possible - if
| so how -
| and are there any free-ish programs that will achieve this?
|
|
| Skipping over the vagaries of archiving on optical discs, this issue
| has been discussed (argued) many times here and elsewhere over the
| years...
|
| Strange, if you have a DVD of enough capacity you should be able to
| save the file(s) without any further work, it sounds like you're
| trying to save as a DVD (in other words a DVD for a DVD player) rather
| than as *data* files on a optical disc that happens to be a DVD.
|
| As another person asked, what are you using to burn the discs and how?

I've tried a number of DVD burning programs, including Burn4Free and a
version of Nero Lite. I'm burning on a standard PC running XP and the Sata
DVD drive is a two year old Sony.

I drag my files to the program's window and click on 'Burn Data'.