I have a DivX video that's 6 MB too big to fit on a CD. Is there any way I can chop off 6 MB from the file and still be able to play it, sans of course the missing end data?

you could if you use winrar.

either that or edit some stuff out of the movie, like the credits or something along those lines, but that requires effert.

Originally posted by interactive
you could if you use winrar.

I tried that, it still was 1 MB over (grr!)

Use VirtualDub (www.virtualdub.org) to mark the in and out points of the video file and set it to write to a new file without recompression (direct stream copy).

Originally posted by Lippy
either that or edit some stuff out of the movie, like the credits or something along those lines, but that requires effert.

I could do that but also the problem is when I re-encode it it will loose more quality and start to look pretty bad :(

Start all over again from scratch, this time reduce a few minutes from the final piece.

.edit. Or get yourself a DVD recorder. :)

Originally posted by parawing742
Use VirtualDub (www.virtualdub.org) to mark the in and out points of the video file and set it to write to a new file without recompression (direct stream copy).

Ah, good idea :) Trying now...

Nope, VirtualDub just introduced a 12 sec audio lag/lead so that's not working...

Is it possible to just remove the last actual 6 MB of the file itself and have the rest of the video still play?

no, AVIs will not play with missing data. Though there is a program called Divx Fix or something like that, it rebuilds the divx file's index. Might want to check out Divx.com (http://www.divx.com) for ideas as they are the creators and have a great forum to help with problems like this.

is this including overburn? Most drives are capable of overburning slightly.. but if you are already taking that into account, guess it won't help.

Never tried overburning...any links?

overburning can be dangerous on older writers, it basically forces the laser further across the CD than its meant to go.

virtualdub will do exactly what you need, just cut a minute of the credits off.

And if you can't get it under the size limit, just split it in half and put it on two cd's with virtualdub.

VirtualDub messes up the audio.

avichop

you can dl it here.. because i am not sure where to find it
www.teamsquirrels.com/downloads/AviChop.exe (~32k)

Well, I've never had an audio problem, heh.

you just need to resynch the audio :)

just posting so that in future if anyone do a search, then can find out more.

There is a how-to for VirtualDub here - http://www.divx-digest.com/articles/cutavi.html

Also AviChop can be downloaded here - http://www.divx-digest.tv/software/cutjoin/avichop02.zip
:)