My laptop doesn't support dvd writting.
and my movies size are almost 730MB...whereas the cd's allow 700mb storage. Flash drives are pricy, external dvd writers are soo expensive. What can i do to reduce my movies size...
2006-10-11 00:52:51 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
You can connect your laptop in a network and write DVDs with a DVD-RW installed on another computer with the permission of the owner.
If you reduce movies size your will reduce their quality too!
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2006-10-11 10:06:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Download a free Divx converter. Then install a divx codec onto Windows Media Player/Or any media player OR download a free Divx player. Using the Divx converter you can convert your movies to a smaller size. Another solution is to download a free program that will 'split' the movies into 2 or more seperate files. Good Luck.... P.S. You can get a dvd burner for 50 bucks now. Also, if you have a CD burner, then you can use Windows Movie Maker (it's already on your computer) and put your movies onto VCD, which is just a blank cd but will play in most dvd players only at video quality, not dvd quality... ;-)
2006-10-11 02:09:12 · answer #2 · answered by Army Of Machines (Wi-Semper-Fi)! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't do anything to reduce the size of your movies as they are already highly compressed.
Your best bet is to buy an external (USB) hard-drive. I have no idea where you live but in the UK the cheapest external hard-drives you can buy work out at about 25 pence per gigabyte. The drive may seem initially expensive to purchase but the price-per-gig is very good value, plus external drives are much less messing around (and more reliable) than using DVD media.
2006-10-11 00:56:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you want to store files that big, you'll need a DVD writer. You can also get a large hard disk drive (400 Gigabyte drives are readily available now), but the DVD writer is the least expensive option.
2006-10-11 00:55:29 · answer #4 · answered by Jerry 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use a external Wester Digital mybook hard drive 500GB for about $200 at costco.
2006-10-11 01:27:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dont even think to decrease the movies quality. < its not a threatment
You can try to store the movies in another home pc. Ant connect there by network.
2006-10-11 00:58:00 · answer #6 · answered by Nervjaga 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can try to encode it in rmvb format...that's the smallest format available at quality is quite good too...
2006-10-11 01:00:59 · answer #7 · answered by KingRichard 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋