Need help fitting 120 minutes on a DVD

[ColinSouthern]

Really need some help with this folks ...

I've captured exactly 120 minutes (of a complete basketball game) - although the estimate for this is around 4GB, Roxio DVD Builder warns that this is an estimate only, and may not fit.

To be safe, I wrote the output to an ISO file - and was relieved to see it only came to 3.7GB - but when I tried to create the disk from the ISO image, it said there wasn't enough space available etc - I'm confused!

I did notice however that in addition to creating the 3.7GB ISO file, another file ( a .001 file) of 1.3GB was created in the same location.

I took the source AVI file - ran and produced a MPG file by running it through TPMGenc (with TPMGenc set to reduce it to 80%) - but when I imported the MPG file into DVD Builder and wrote another ISO file it was still 3.7GB, although the size of the correcponding '.001' file dropped to around 1GB (still wouldn't fit though)

Can anyone tell me ...

1. What are these '.001' files that get created when I create an ISO image

2. Do they get written to the disk as well?

3. What can I use to get the smaller MPG file used on a DVD and have it all fit?

Thanks,
Colin

[Richard_G]

What operating system are you using? It might be that you are using a FAT32 hard drive and the finished file would be greater than 4Gb so your software is splitting it. Instead of saving as iso, if you save as DVD ifo, bup and vob, no individual file will be greater than about 1Gb.

If you want to get the file size down, change the bitrate so you end up with the required file size. For capture from TV, I would suggest you capture at 1/2 D1 (352 x 480 NTSC or 352 x 576 PAL) and drop your bitrate down to 4Mbs. That will give you nearly 3 hours on a DVD.