<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.16.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 19:33 -0500, jack wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> I have an avi that is 695Mb and (according to the dvd burner software) will occupy 47% of a 4,7Gb dvd. I have another avi that is 698Mb and (according to the dvd burner software) will occupy 110% of a 4.7Gb dvd. Is this possible? I really don't get it. Anyone know why this could be true ? </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> It may have something to do with the conversion to the MPEG-2 DVD format. Depending on the codec used in the AVI file, you may have to use a much higher bitrate with the MPEG-2 encoding, especially considering it'll be transcoded, to get the same quality on the DVD. This may be why it takes so much more space when converted to DVD format. </BODY> </HTML>