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? > then encode the video to the iPod format - H.264. (MPEG-4 Part > 10) The file is much smaller using H.264 Chris - I just encoded a 973Mb TV program from EyeTV using the H.264 codec, and it was completed in about 50 minutes,and produced a 223 Mb file. Quite impressive. All done on my 125 Al-book. That seems to be the way to go in future, for me. Thanks, as always. regards, Trevor