not enough room on DVD - lies i tell you

[Reiss]

hi
just finished 8 hours of transcoding a movie within nero vission express2, come to burn the 4.5gb project onto my 4.7gb DVD & the damn thing is telling me that there is not enough room!
i tried a TDK+R & then a Memorex+R DVD on my TDK 420n 4x DVD burner.
why is the damn thing lying to me.

DVD creation is a pain in the arse, i quit.

merry christmas

[pdh]

It needs to be 4.4gig in size.

[rsquirell]

hehehe....it has to do with different ways manufacturers use to calculate GB's so they can "puff" their goods ( it all depends on what is is...). You can only get 4.37GB on a DVD disc.

[Reiss]

rsquirell, you spend too much time in front of your computer - thank you!

these forums are great, dont you ever get fed up of answering the same questions to DVD newbies like me ?

oh, and thanks to pdh,

now i've gone and prepped 4 damn videos to burn, all just under 4.7gb. thats gonna be days worth of re-encoding, but i have the ultimate computer (see attached pic)

happy holidays. its hot as hell here in Miami

[ashy]

Ughh...nero vission express?

Why don't you use a proper encoding program such as TMPG which will give you far superior results (and probably quicker) to the horrid ones Nero will produce unless you like substandard quality results?

[Reiss]

trying TMPGenc to decode avi files.
it got about 3/4 way through and the pic froze, though the program continued to decode the movie but the end result was the movie played fine up to the 3/4 mark then the same image on screen played for about the last 20 mins. hmm
trying same movie again.
...
...
crap - did same again.
it is allot quicker though and doesnt seem to hog my system rescources unlike nero.

good tips guys, thanks.

happy holidays

[ashy]

Click the VFAPI plugins tab in the enviromental settings and raise the priority of the 'direct show file reader' to 2
If that doesn't cure it then download and install FFDSHOW and configure it to decode your AVI then try TMPG again.