[macin]

I have roxio toast and I have been burning dvds so I can delete my torrents from my hard drive. My problem is I can only put like 4 tv shows on each dvd I am looking for way to compress the files more, but everything that I see that compresses needs a dvd to be inserted. can someone help me.

[besson3c]

First of all, you can download any file type with a torrent file, so you aren't compressing a torrent, but a video file.

Secondly, while you can compress video files further, are you aware that the quality will worsen the more you compress?

What format are these video files now?

[macin]

they are mostly .avi some are .mov

[Thinine]

I believe there are quality settings in Toast you can adjust. Are you burning single or dual layer disks?

[Gavin]

quicktime pro can compress these - just export from quicktime player

maybe also look at iSquint

[Uncle Skeleton]

The above answers don't seem to realize that you must be burning video DVDs (ones that play in standard DVD players on your TV), which means that whatever your video source is getting converted to MPEG-2, the only format valid for video DVDs. You won't get any better than 2 hours on such a disc, at a watchable quality level.

If you're just going to watch these on your computer (or your TV as a monitor for your computer), you can save lots of space (and time) by burning the avi files as a data DVD. Choose "Data" from the top of the Toast window instead of "Video"

[Chuckit]

Actually, a lot of standalone players support AVI files now too. That's probably worth a try.

[OwlBoy]

avi is a file wrapper, what format are they in?

-Owl