Message: 8 Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 00:38:42 +0530 From: "Iqbal Dehlvi" iqbal_linux@softhome.net Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Compressing CD-ROMS To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Message-ID: 000e01c4798d$4e5a31e0$0399fea9@in Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
I have a lot of files, which are ranged from 735mb to 1.5 gigabytes. I´d like to burn each of those files to a single cd, but they exceed the capacity of every cd(700mb max).
I would be thankful if you can help me knowing any special softwares for this ....
I´ve had several ideas of how to achieve this:
- Re-encode the ones that are video files: Several of them are, but
re-encoding is very time consuming and i need to free hard disk space often, plus I´m not an expert encoder and it would take time for me to learn how not to degrade the quality while re-encoding. Re-encoding is not an option.
- Compress the ones that are data files or databases: but if I use zip
software, in order to read em from the cd, it extracts the whole file to a temporary directory on my hard drive, which is time consuming. I want to be able to read the files on the fly, just like every "NORMAL" cd.
So any one can guide me in this.
Regards
ID
Hi You want the files to fit in your cd of 700 MB but you also want them to be readable on the cd. These two requirements seem to be conflicting each other.
I dont really think this is possible.
regards Abhijeet D Mhatre