Best way to back up large AVI file onto DVDs?

[Sondra]

I want to back up a 19GB AVI file across several DVDs. What I'd really like is something that will make an AVI file that will all reopen in a video program as a single video, but I don't think that exists.

If I use Nero's BackItUp, would "no compression" make a better restored file than "low compression" or "high compression"? I couldn't see how to uncheck "compression", which wouldn't matter if the end result won't be better.

Nero set the burning speed at 16x. What speed is most likely to produce the best result?

 

[mwalt2]

Video files are usually already compressed, so using compression probably won't gain you much (ie not worth the extra time). You can split avi files into smaller video files with a number of programs. Here's a shareware http://www.brizsoft.com/avisplit/ and a freeware http://www.doeasier.org/splitter/. Google avi spliter for more results.

 

[KoolDrew]

ConvertXtoDVD

 

[JackBurton]

Use WinRAR to span it across as many DVDs as you'd like. You'll have to extract it before you can play it though.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Use winrar or 7-zip to make an executable archive split into 5-or-so files (~3.8GB each). Then just burn each part of the archive to a different DVD.

This way when you want to combine the files again you don't have to use any specialized software to do so; just put all the files into the same directory and run the executable.

 

[Injury]

What the hell is the LENGTH of this video file?????


You might be better off re-rendering it in a different format.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: Injury
What the hell is the LENGTH of this video file?????


You might be better off re-rendering it in a different format.

I was kinda assuming it's a RAW-ish format, like AVI-DV.

 

[jjones]

Like others have said, use winrar to chop it up in rar files or you can use vdub to chop up the avi as is and recombine it later. Using direct stream in vdub is very quick and you won't lose any quality.

 

[Sondra]

Thanks for the suggestions. I hadn't wanted to made several separate files because of quality loss, so I'll look into VDub.

It's 85 minutes long, by the way.