3.8 gig mpg2 80 mins says it's to big?

[donscomp]

I have taken video from say VHS and burned. Although I had to split it as it was 6 + gigs.

However I pulled a program off TV to the computer via an all-in-wonder card.
It is a 80 min file. 3.8 gig. Pulled with these settings.
Mpeg2
640x240 (NTSC) (525)
6.00 Bit/Sec
44.100 Khz 16 Bit Stereo.

I try to bring into Sonic My DVD and the Burn button is NOT lite and if I do a ctrl D it says it is to big.

Like I said. The file is 3.8 gigs and 80 min. Trying it on a DVD-R 4.7 120 min disk.

Kinda new to this and this is the 1st time having this problem.

Thanks all.
Don

[Marco33]

ah... the old "file is small enough to fit on DVDR yet SONIC MY DVD will not burn it.

Sonic MY DVD leads to the dark side.

Translation= Sonic MY DVD converts the audio to PCM this BALOONS the size of the original file.

[Nelson37]

Sonic is using LPCM (wav) for the audio, increasing the size beyond 4.7. To avoid this, use Vdub to save audio as wav, TMPGEnc to demux video, BeSweet to encode audio as AC-3, then remux M2V and AC3 with Tmpgenc. File will be approximately the same size, slightly larger, but will not be further expanded when imported into Sonic.

However, you have additional problems. Audio must be at 48 (MMC 7.7 and above or use SSRC), and you should be capturing at XXX by 480. The only horizontal resolutions I have had accepted by Sonic are 720 and 352. I would also guess you are using constant bitrate rather than variable. Not a huge problem, but very wasteful of bits.

[pestoon]

THat is becuse you have an old windows version. you need WinXP. Anyother window will give an error if file is bigger thatn 3 gigs.

[donscomp]

Huh?
Running Xp Pro.

[vance43211]

use TMPGEnc DVD Author

if you put a 3.8 gig mpeg in

you will get a 3.8 (maybe a little more) gig out

[bri_smit]

Yes, what Nelson37 said. Your resolution and audio bitrate are not dvd compliant. You need to capture a ntsc source at 720x480 (or 352x480 for half D1) and the audio bitrate must be 48khz