My.. my... ok.. read this.. slow & well.
What u saw was a VCD... meaning... it's a cd written for the purpose of playing in a video player.
Now.. lets see how a VCD is denominated.. in terms of minutes.. say.. 80minutes.
Check out an empty 700MB CD, there'll b a minutes measure of 80minutes. Meaning.. an empty 700MB CD can b burnt as a 80min vcd disc.
So... check out the VCD file in the VCD... that'll definitely be
around 80min if it's a .dat file.
Now.. why did I say
around 80min.. it's because... there is always an xtra measure put in any resource, a lagniappe(if I may term precisely), the baker's dozen. So.. CD makers usually put in an xtra 20 odd MB or 2 odd minutes on ur CD.
Now... in a sentence... if u write ur CD as a data cd (as opposed to a VCD), u can write around 700MB of data into it (20odd MBs too can b written, but under CD & writer risk) & if u burn it as a VCD, u can burn around an 80minute dat file (read mpg/mpeg format) into it (not to forget the +2minutes under CD/CDwriter risk).
That writing/burning of xtra data is termed
overburning.
Simple...
In case u r doubtful of the real capacity of the cd... there r some sw (i suppose in-built in Nero) which measure the actual CD capacity.
But, I suggest not overburn too much.. risky for the writer... put a max of around 10mb xtra.
And.. don't go around saying.. aaj maine do cheez sikhe.. ek ke
lagniappe ka mathlab hai
something xtra.. aur doosra...
baker's dozen maane
thirteen. I just hate that Cadbury Bites ad.. like this one, or the doggie one(much worse)... so stupid
And the bottomline.. as KoolBluez says so... is that u should write the CD as a video cd or copy the whole damn thin as an image & burn again.. what?