[poison]

I have some movies that are 701 mb big and when i try to burn em toast says that the movie is too big. ive got a g4 876 quicksilver with the standard cd-rw. Is there any software that allows overburning or any other software with which i can slice divx movies. so i can cut the last 5 mins of the cast etc.

Most of the movies i get from my friends are 701 mb large and fit on theyre cds... Ohh , and why does toast make this .ds_store file ? Its quite big .. about 3-4 mb


any ideas ? I checked for some programs on versiontracker.com and found only one -sliceme is the name (i thinks?!) and it didnt work for me.


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[VEGAN]

you don't need to slice it.
I'm using unix/linux tool named `mkisofs' and I make a "plain vanilla" ISO image and then use DiskCopy.app to burn it.

I have burned, many, many data CDs with over 700M. I think last week I burned something like 704M CD...

The "disadvantage" of `mkisofs' I use, is that it's CLI tool [you need to use Terminal.app].

But it's very simple.

Make a folder with the file/files you want to burn [let's name it "myCD" in the Movies folder]. So, this is the command you need to use:

mkisofs -l -x .DS_* -V MYCD01 -o mycd.iso ~/Muvies/myCD

That's it, sit back, relax, and it's done.

["-l" allows "long" file names... but be careful with funny names, coz "["-s and stuff will be made into "_"]
[-x .DS_* will exclude files that start with ".DS_", you know those annoying hidden files]
[-V sets the Volume name]

If you have `fink' installed, it's easy to install `mkisofs'

PS. Hold on a sec, I'll check if there are any "Mac friendly" ports of this applicatio so you don't have to worry about the Terminal.app

I can't find any, but here is a `mkisofs' binary [so you don't need to install `fink' `mkisofs' at versiontracker.com

If you have questions how to use it, ask me, or the guys at the UNIX forum!

[Uncle Skeleton]

...nor do you need to use unix. In Toast, select ISO9660 as the format. This will eliminate all that useless HFS+ formatting and allow you to get about 702.5 MB on a disk, depending on the brand name

For those without Toast, you can probably make a 701 MB disk image with Disk Copy (copy your file to it of course) and burn the image. But I've never tried that.