mpeg2 too big crashing out on tmgenc author

[emored]

i seem to have found a problem when it comes to larger file projects lately , in that after successfully gaining an mpeg2 ( after using procoder ) i then use tmpgenc to author the result , this however seem to spit out the job after maybe 50% of progress saying resulting volume will be too big , i know that the file if completed could be further reduced with another program but tmpgenc will not proceed to give me an end resul ti can work with , is there any other option that dos not involve deleting and reencoding this project ?

[bugster]

TmpGenc DVDA will not author a project where the results is over ~9Gig. If you think about it this makes sense as this is the size of a single sided Dual Layer disk.

If you try to author a project between 4.3G and 9G (approx) it gives a warning but will allow you to continue.

If your source mpeg is > 9Gig, you will need to re-encode or shrink it some other way (cut titles etc if it is close). I am not aware of any DVD authoring program that will allow > 9Gig. Many consumer level programs restrict you to 4.5Gig (single sided, single layer DVD).

[emored]

thanks for the reply , yeah kind of the logical answer i was expecting but not actually wanting to read i was just hoping that eve nif the resulting product was so big that dvdshrink would reduce it down to workable size , i used procoder to encode and i cant see any immediate way to alter the end result in size ... so i cant use the mpeg2 i have saved anyway then ?

[bugster]

Transcoding using DVDshrink or something similiar all the way down from > 9Gigs to ~$Gigs probably would not produce very good results anyway.

Not sure but ReJig may work on mpeg files.

But I woul;d reccomend re-encoding at the corrcet bitrate to get the size to ~4gig. Procoder should be able to do this using you existing mpeg as the source file.