icw Posted August 29, 2008 Report Share Posted August 29, 2008 HiI have a collection of training videos (wmv) files. Which amount to Just over 1GB in sizeI am going to sell them to users. the idea is that i will send them a CD.What's the best way to deal with this? I know that a CD will probably only handle about 700MB of data.Should I zip them all up , would that help?Ideally I'd like the CD to autorun into an HTML page where users can run the videos so I guess zipping is not going to helpOr maybe put them on 2 disks.I would like the user to see something that looks a little bit "professional" and not just a cd with a bunch of zipped files.Hope I am making sense. Sorry I don't have any experience in this area.Many thanks in advance for any helpful ideas or suggestions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
machiner Posted November 13, 2008 Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 I have made some pretty fancy-schmancy dvds in the past pretty simply on my Debian box...Auto running, fancy menus, effects, all that. The old folks were pretty impressed with my schwanky stuff -- lol. I don't know what you would use in that alternative operating system (Windows ;) ) or if you could get your hands on any authoring and or layout packages for free...legally. dvdwizard and dvdstyler were pretty simple and there is also mandvd. I tried others, too. Honestly, I don't remember which program I actually used as I tried a few and just made the dvds as I tried different programs. Oof -- I have no idea which program I liked the best or which dvd I made with which program. Wait a moment -- dvdstyler is cross-platform -- check itAlso, check this older article out. lol. I think I read that when I was doing this project, too. That's about the time I made them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luis 2012 Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 Try free DVD creator (just google it) Its free and pretty good. I've made a couple of DVD's with it and you have many options. I'm not very good with all the different video files (ex wmv, avi, divx, mp4) but you should be able to find a converter that can shrink the files so they will fit into one CD. If you have some extra time i think WIndows Movie Make can compress them for you here's a link on HowTo http://www.cashforbloggers.com/2007/09/how...th-windows.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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