DVD authoring on Win 98SE / Fat32

[Beavis]

Does anyone know if any of the DVD authoring programs will allow you to completely fill a DVD-R under Fat32? (ie they make the individual files for the disc on the fly rather than creating one big temp file first- avoiding the 4 gig limit). Moving up to NTFS isn't really an option at this point.

[Schmendrick]

If you only produce the DVD structure as IFO-, BUP- and VOB-files within an VIDEO_TS folder and use an appropriate burning program like NERO than you can completely fill a DVD+-R without exceeding the 4 GB-limit.
Otherwise you can obtain an NTFS-utility to install and use an NTFS-partition within WIN98SE so that you only need to have a 4,38 GB partition to receive the disc image.

I am using IfoEdit and DVDMaker obtained from www.vitecmm.com .


CU

Schmendrick

[wulf109]

The 4Gb limit simply is not a problem in DVD authoring. Retail DVD's are in 1 Gb chunks. Even if you use an m2v and ac3 file it's really not a problem. A 2 hour movie is going to use 400MB's for the audio stream and if you use 4GB's for the video you have 4400MB's,the capacity of a DVD-R is 4482MB's.

[Beavis]

The 4Gb limit simply is not a problem in DVD authoring. Retail DVD's are in 1 Gb chunks.

Yes, the final DVD won't have any >4gig files, but apparently it IS a problem with some authoring packages. I know that users of DVD-Lab complain about the fact that this particular program compiles one big temp file the size of the final disc, and then writes the individual VOB's, etc. that will be burned to the DVD after that. Thus, if your total size is greater than the 4 gig limit you're going to have a problem when it makes that temp file. Many other authoring packages don't mention Win98SE as supported at all.

Can anyone tell me any automatic authoring programs that they definitely know will allow me to fill up an entire DVD-R (and therefore DON'T work the same way that DVD-lab does). TMPGenc DVD author perhaps? Thanks.

[Gazorgan]

TAD doesn't do temp files. That is When I hit 'The Button' I can watch it write the vobs sequentially. But then again it's not doing any audio converting most of the time (not that it would matter anyway, I never drop a 4.3 GB MPEG2 into it).

[randytsuch]

I was running win98se until a little while ago, and used DVD-lab, Movie Factory 2, Power producer and Roxio to make DVD's, probably one or two others that I was playing with, and had no problems filling up a DVD, even with the 2 gig file limit.

DVD-lab and Movie factory, and probably others have 30 day trials, so you can make sure they will work for you.

Randy