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thedockson <thedockson@lavabit.com> wrote in
news:0d9e01cc-2ed7-452e-9220-50d5fe78742a@z33g2000vbb.googlegroups.com: 

> Hello, I have to give some dvds to a client later or tomorrow and was
> going to use 7zip to create dvd sized chunks of files from a 25 gig
> folder, with thousand of files, but it wouldn't work, It would act
> like it's working but nothing gets created.
> 
> Tried to just highlight approx dvd size of files to be burned with
> win7 and that gave errors of size.
> 
> So I need a dvd program that will automatically size files to be
> burned to dvd and prompt for the next dvd until the process is
> finished.
> 
> A linux app would be doable if I installed linux or if a live cd would
> have an app that would be nice, but a free windows app would be
> better.
> 
> Thanks for suggestions.
> 
What exactly are you planning to write these files to? you *might* get a
5% reduction in size at most, just coppying the DVD's themselves is
just as good. Certainly you won't waste any time compressing files that
won't compress any more and dealing with running out of hard drive space
- which almost certainly is your problem. The only thing you're saving here
per DVD is the difference between the maximum capacity for a DVD - 4.3 GB
(if not blue ray) and the actual average size of these movies.

Most video and picture files *are* compressed. Any attempt to do more
will just waste peoples time and processor usage. DVD's are mpeg2
compression, jpeg's use lossy compression - more than you're ever likely
to get any other way. 

If you want to use this wasted space, use winrar with no compression. You'll
take less time, only lose at most 5% of compression and use all the disk
space on each DVD. And make them close session disks too BTW. Open session
disks are the most tempermental badly performing things in the entire
computer field.
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