"neil f" wrote in message
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":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'.


Yes, but what is the software then trying to do with that data, are
you sure that you are asking to burn it as *data files* and not as an
disc image or DVD?

I assume you are not trying to put a 5.4GB file onto a 4.7GB disc, if
you are any burning program will either reject the burn request or
recompress the file(s) to fit the disc....