Posted by Peter Brown on 03/23/06 12:54

by the copy wizard i meant right clicking on the file and selecting copy
to... everytime i try it takes about 20 minutes to copy and at the end i get
an error message saying "copy wizard has failed to copy" or words to that
effect.Would NERO etc succeed where regular copying has failed??

Peter


"Oldus Fartus" <denisand@iiNOSPAMnet.net.au> wrote in message
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> Peter Brown wrote:
>> I've got AVIs that I need to copy to CD-RW and then play in my DVD
>> player.
>> I've translated the AVIs into MPEG-1 (thus saving space), but everytime I
>> use the Windows XP standard copying wizard it doesn't burn the MPGs. The
>> size of the file is about 600mb, which should easily fit onto a blank
>> CD-RW
>> (capacity about 700mb).
>>
>> a) Is there a better way to copy the files?
>> b) Should I have converted the AVI's into MPG-2 files? But then would
>> this
>> have made any difference? And how do I do this? There are plenty of
>> freeware
>> program to convert to MPG1, but none for mpg2
>>
>> Would welcome any help
>>
>
> Not sure what you mean by XP's copy wizard, but you are probably better
> off using Nero or one of the other burning programs and burning a Video CD
> if you require them to play in a standard DVD player.
>
> MPEG2 will give better quality, but will take up much more space, so your
> video will probably require 2 cds.
>
>
> --
> Cheers
> Oldus Fartus

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