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Hello everybody, this is my second post here, I’m afraid I need some advice. A couple of years ago I used to download movies in .avi format, add subtitles, and turn them into .divX files which then I could play in my DVD player and watch on the TV screen. I used to burn six movies on each DVD; they usually were 700 kilobytes each. I stopped downloading films for two years, and now I find that 99% of the movies I want to see are in .mp4 or .mkv formats –and their average size is 1,500 KB. I’ve turned them into .avi files with Format Factory, and then into .divX, burned the DVDs, but my DVD player won’t play them, I get a message saying they contain too much information. I need to know what program I can use to turn the .mp4 and .mkv files into .avi and most of all how to compress their size to 700 or 750 KB so that I can watch them. Any suggestions about programs, any link or tutorial will be appreciated. Yours,
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Maybe you might want to lighten the load that the DVD takes with the episodes.
In simple English, don't put too many.
Not trying to be pompous, just trying to suggest.
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Here's a guide I found. Can't vouch for whether it works or not.
https://www.dvd-guides.com/guides/all-to...in-one-dvd
I'd suggest that you invest a few bucks and buy a blu-ray player. Many of them can play mp4 and mkv files. I know not everyone can do that, but they are pretty cheap nowadays. And it's much simpler. 
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Nov 26, 2016, 18:34 pm
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(Nov 26, 2016, 00:52 am)RobertX Wrote: Maybe you might want to lighten the load that the DVD takes with the episodes.
In simple English, don't put too many.
Not trying to be pompous, just trying to suggest.
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Hi RobertX
Your suggestion… it’s the obvious solution but it just won’t do, you know. That’s what I’ve already tried –but my DVD player just won’t play anything larger than 1,000 KB. I need to keep burning movies which aren’t larger than 750 or 800 KB. And I need to fuse the subtitles and the video into a .divX file, I’m not an English native speaker and I need the captions (by the way, I also watch a lot of Asian films). Thanks for replying anyways.
(Nov 26, 2016, 06:09 am)joew771 Wrote: Here's a guide I found. Can't vouch for whether it works or not.
https://www.dvd-guides.com/guides/all-to...in-one-dvd
I'd suggest that you invest a few bucks and buy a blu-ray player. Many of them can play mp4 and mkv files. I know not everyone can do that, but they are pretty cheap nowadays. And it's much simpler.
Hi joew771
Thanks for the link, I’ll study the guide. Unfortunately I can’t but a Blue Ray player, at least not now… I’m finding it hard to make ends meet and have many debts. And as I told Robert, I need to fuse the subtitles and the video into a .divX file, I’m not an English native speaker and I need the captions (I also watch a lot of Asian films). At least for the foreseeable future I will have to stick to small-sized .divX files. Thanks anyways.
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you should consider a media player for your tv. for about $100 u.s. you can get a western digital media player and connect it with hdmi to your hdtv. the media player also connects to an external hard drive. you download a video file move it to your external and connect it to your media player and watch bluray files or whatever else you've downloaded. the players also have netflix, youtube and a host of other apps. no more burning or storing the dvds and you can watch almost any video file. if you already have wifi all you need is a mini wifi adapter. years ago i wanted to buy a stand-alone bluray dvd burner and decided upon this option which was better and cheaper. wd also has a 3 terabyte external drive the size of a deck of cards for $94. that's a lot of video storage for a good price and you're not buying blank dvds and the time spent burning vids.
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I use ConvertXtoDVD for my DVD-playing pleasure.
The software has great compression ability and thus is good at putting a lot of files to an extent.
I've tried putting my WWE Smackdown shows archived from the WWE Network, which are roughly 80 minutes on average and great quality, and the software burns them just fine.
Takes time to burn them with the computer I have, which is a Pentium 4. If you have a better computer than that, it should go faster.
I hate the fact that I'm wasting DVDs, but I'm too old-school to switch. 
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Nov 27, 2016, 07:48 am
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did I go in the weird part of the internet again? I would LOVE to see the quality of a movie if it's only 700 kilobytes
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(Nov 27, 2016, 07:48 am)Q91 Wrote: did I go in the weird part of the internet again? I would LOVE to see the quality of a movie if it's only 700 kilobytes
you are so funny. obviously they meant 700mb, but even those are pretty low quality. And honestly, the best advice I can give the op is to buy a blu-ray player. They cost less than $100 a lot of the time. You can get one for $30 or so.
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