On 19 May 2006, at 15:16, Chris Olson wrote: >> On May 19, 2006, at 5:33 AM, Dr Trevor J. Hutley wrote: >> Is there a better alternative, to put a 1Gb program on to a CD-RW? > > encode the video to the iPod format - H.264. (MPEG-4 Part 10) > The quality is excellent .....on our 60" big screen TV Chris - I now see that there many options available for the H264 encoding process. Which parameters do you use, to get such high quality? Even with 700 data rate, 30 fps and HD movie size, the H264 seems to offer a very small file (about 1/2 of what I had before) ! The time for encoding is not reduced, just the file size, from my first experiments. regards, Trevor