how to convert *avi to *bin/cue?

[AlphaIVT]

does this usually make the file smaller if you convert it to bin/cue?

 

[ThisIsMatt]

no, so for your question what's the point?

 

[AlphaIVT]

what do you mean? i asked how do i convert avi to bin. and does it make the file smaller so i can burn it onto a CD.

 

[Sugadaddy]

nope, it'll probably be bigger... Bin/cue is like ISO, it's an image meant to be burned and can't be played directly, so it wouldn't make sense.

 

[Napalm381]

Actually, my experience is converting groups of files to a bin/cue format has the tendancy to make them take up MORE space.

 

[AlphaIVT]

ohh.... then i guess i'll have to cut the avi file smaller, thanks for the help ThisIsMatt... NOT! LOL! thanks SugaDaddy

 

[Sugadaddy]

if you make a bin/cue file with it, once you burn it it'll appear as an AVI file still.

If you want to compress it, I think winrar is the best.

 

[AlphaIVT]

what settings should i use to compress it using WinRAR?

 

[Killbat]

Compression: best. Are you totally helpless, Alf?

 

[ThisIsMatt]

Sorry AlphaIVT...if you make it bin/cue, you're just making a cd image file (not really sure how you'd do this w/o putting it onto cd then ripping it off to bin/cue). Winrar will probably only be able to compress it <1% seeing avi is already compressed (and don't you think they'd compress it more if they knew how? ie winrar?). If it really is just standard AVI, maybe you could compress it to DIVX, but I'm guessing that's what it already is. You can d/l DIVX splitters though...

did that help?

 

[AlphaIVT]

hhmmm... thanks for the heads up, i didn't wantt o wait 56minutes to compress it