How to break 786mb file to burn on 2 cd's???

[Troyboy]

I'm downloading a 786mb motorcycle film right now and want to burn it to a disc to free the room on my hd. How can I split the file to fit it on 2 CD's. I've got Adaptec Easy CD Creator.

I went to Best Buy with some wishful thinking in search of cd's with more than 700mb to no avail.

Thanks,

Troy

[46Tbird]

www.winzip.com

[Troyboy]

Thanks 46bird, but I want to be able to play the disc in my DVD player. Will I be able to if it is compressed? I looked at the site and couldn't find anything to let me know.

[46Tbird]

I guess I should qualify that. You can create a spanned volume with WinZip, but you won't be able to view the 'film' again until you re-copy it to a hard drive and recreate the volume.

[AbecX]

you'll need to load up a movie editor and cut and paste halfway through, save the cut part into another divx/mpeg file.



Help:
http://www.divx-digest.com/articles/divx2vcd.html

[Troyboy]

I'm somewhat computer illiterate...are you saying that I compress it with WinZip, burn it, reload it to HD, and burn the smaller file???

Sorry if this is a stupid?

[Troyboy]

ABEC- thanks, that sounds like it may be better for me. I'll see if I can figure it all out when I finish downloading the film.

Troy

[Yellowstang]

http://www.tmpgenc.net/
http://www.vcdhelp.com/

A friend sent me these two links to compress video files to burn to CD's. It is supposed to work well, just sort of slow if you don't have a fast system.

[8mpg]

well, im guessing its vcd which therefor means the file type is mpg...

CHECK HERE FOR TUTORIAL AND PROGRAM TO DO IT (http://www.dvdrhelp.com/tmpgencedit.htm)

[Kenny_Stang]

I've used this app before Easy Video Splitter (http://www.doeasier.org/splitter/) and it works fine. Only bad thing is that it's trialware, so after 5 days it will not work.