Klarinet Archive - Posting 000203.txt from 2005/05

From: Tom Wood <n4cid1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Video Creation (OT)
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 20:53:42 -0400


Karl Krelove wrote:

>I'm trying to transfer a VHS recording of a school production of several
>years ago to DVDs to distribute among this summer's staff. I managed to
>capture the entire tape into an MPG on my hard drive. As an MPG it won't fit
>on a DVD (it's a little over 9 GB). Neither the Roxio software I own nor the
>native WinXP DVD burning software (which is cut-down Roxio) seems able to do
>anything with the file to change it to a standard DVD format (reducing its
>size in the process) and the MPG is just too big to do anything with. Can
>anyone tell me how (I'm sure it can be done) to duplicate this tape as a
>video DVD. Can I do it from the MPG I already have captured or do I need to
>recapture it by some other method?
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
>
Karl you could break the MPG file up into 2 MPG files and then burn it
onto 2 DVD discs. Another option is to burn it
to a double layer DVD disc. (Which you probably do not have)!

Tom

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