DVD wont burn, file to big, even though its under 4.7gb

[fingerpupet]

i wonder if anyone can help me with another little problem,
i have tried to burn dvd movies which i created using dvd creator and srunk using dvd srink 3.1, when i try to burn the film onto disk using nero it burns ok but wont play in any dvd player, if i try to burn it using dvd creator the complience test is ok but it says the film is to big to fit on the disk even though its only 4.35 gb. i am getting very confused with all of this and hope someone can help me

[sfheath]

Hi fingerpupet, I read you've had a bit of a problem with matching media to your writer. You are using DVD+R? Does your standalone player accept +R? you can check on http://www.dvdrhelp.com./dvdplayers
In Nero, are you selecting DVD compliancy and puting all files into the VIDEO_TS folder on your DVD?

[fingerpupet]

hey sfheath thanks for the reply, i am using dvd+r and my player does play them, as for puting all files in video_ts i was not,
but now that i am this works fine thanks very much for the help.
as for the file being to big i found if you use dvd srink to srink the file and use it again to srink the srunk file it fits on the disk just, its a bit of a longwinded way of doing it but if anyone can recomend a different way that would be great...

[sfheath]

hah! you discovered the trick of Shrinking twice! nice one.
Glad you've succeeded

You can achieve higher levels of compression with MPEG4/DivX/Xvid ... but that's a whole new chapter!