Toasting vcd's

[scottian]

Im trying to create a vcd of a family holiday movie. it was quite large so i used various tools to reduce the size below 700mb. Tis took ages but finally got down to 640mb. now im trying to burn a vcd with toast, but when i try i get a message stating

"there's not enough free space on this disk: 441236 sectors (861.8 mb) are needed, 359849 sectors (702.8mb) are available"

Now, i may be a bit thick, but surely Toast knows that CD's are only 700mb anyway. So why doesnt it convert the file to fit the CD?

Does anyone know of any apps that can do this. Ive tried iVCD but it doesnt support the CD writer in my G5. Im running 10.3.9 by the way.

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[jimoblak]

Is that 700 MB file in MPG1 format (required for a VCD)? If not, Toast will re-encode whatever codec and format you have in that 700 MB file into the VCD format of MPG1. MPG1 may present a much larger file size than what you have now.

Consider converting whatever you have to a VCD-compliant MPG1 file. Then use a file splitter utility to cut it into 700 MB segments.