Trying to record some video files onto DVD

[janlafata]

I have all 24 epsiodes from a TV program called Space Above & Beyond which I downloaded off KaZaA. I'm pretty sure most of them are in DivX format and most of them are average in size anywhere from 80 to 150 MB. They are also in AVI format (I don't know if you can do both - DivX and AVI or not)

I've been trying to put them on DVD with either Nero or Roxio but every time I get to part before a burn it reads them all as being about 47 MB in size for all of them, which of course is way too big for a DVD.

I'm wondering what the heck is going on. I added the sizes up for all 24 episodes and my total came out somewhere around 4.12 GB or something like that, well under the size limit for a DVD. So why are Nero and Roxio reading them as these huge files? My only theory so far is that maybe because they have been DivX compressed the software is reading them at their original pre-DivX size?

Any thoughts?
Jan LaFata
Tucson

[reboot]

Avi is compressed. DVD mpeg-2 is a different compression, requiring WAY more space.
Either buy a player that will play divx, or learn to encode avi to mpeg-2.
Start with tmpgenc and kdvd templates (or Tmpgenc Xpress 3 and Xdvd settings).