Here's the situation. I have video file which is avi and takes up a good 692mb. My computers speakers need repairing so I want to play the video on a VCD on a my tv via my DVD player. But when I opened up Nero to burn the video all the extra files that need to be put on to the cd in order to make it a VCD make it so that around 800mb are needed. I need to know is there a way to decrease the size with out the quality being rubbish? E.g. Different file type or compression.

P.S. The file uses the DIVX codec.

Thanks for any help.

well... playing it on your tv means you can pretty bigtime reduce your size, because tv only supports 400x300 or so... really small, because tv is drawn vectorial, not pixelated.... Might give making the size smaller... though I'm not for sure on this! so keep a backup!

If you're going to be watching it on a TV, you dont really need very high quality. Another option would be to split it into two parts.

Or you can get yourself a nice DVD player which plays Divx files, so no conversion is needed. You can get one for under $50 >> http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Pr...feed.CBY+DVD626.

Cheers for the help guys. I never really considered cutting the video into 2 parts so good idea. I think I'll try that. I have loads of cd's to spare anyway so if that doesn't work I'll try getting a Divx player.

Thanks again.