neil f wrote:
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"neil f" wrote in message
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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'.

But are you burning as video DVD or DVD-Rom the later is data and should be
a copy of your data the former will convert the files to a Video DVD for
playback in a DVD player and so doing compress to mpeg 2 and write along
with the necessary files

--
Trev
You can always tell a Yorkshire man,
But you can't tell him much.