Well I found the limit for Tmpgenc DVD author, it seems to be DVD9 size or about 9gigs authored!

First I'll say I was experimenting to see how something would work, not that I normally do this

I captured 2 tapes, about a 3 hr movie at 8,000bps
Yes you guessed it, I got about 6 gigs per tape for a total of 12gigs for the 3 hr movie

Now I was able to open them both just fine and set up my DVD with Tmpgenc DVD author. When I got to actually createing the DVD files to the hard drive of course I got the same standard error of not compliant, becuase of size of course. As I have done before I ignored the error and began creating my files. All was well about 15-20minutes, then boing, I got that ding sound. Rats, it failed! The error said something about unable to create more files due to size.

Ok, I closed the box and looked with explorer, sure enough my folder had 9gigs showing for files! I double clicked a couple and they opened and played just fine except for the last one, VOB9 or Vob10. It opened and played a few seconds, no sound, then it crashed.

Well for those wanting to create over sized DVDs let this be a lesson, about 9gigs is tops!
I really hope they fix this problem before my BLUE RAY gets here

Anway I have created over sized DVDs just fine in the past, up to about 6gigs, just ingore the error box you get and all is fine. Then you can play them off the Hard drive or use DVDshrink or DVD2one to reduce the size if you want to burn it to disk. However this was my first time trying to create a DVD12 and it failed!

So to some it up, looks like you can author a DVD9 but not above!

On a side note on this subject, I have created the first tape as a 6.30gig DVD with no problem! I am creating the second tapes DVD now.
I will then see what happens runing DVDshrink 3beta5 on these. If that turns decent results, I will have a 2 disk set.

After I burn those two disks I plan to either join them with shrink, or open all the Vob files with Tmpgenc DVD author then join and author both DVDs as one new 8gig DVD. This should be no problem since we have now learned the limit is 9gigs

Once agian, this is a test, only a test, if this had been a real attempt to author a standard DVD you would have been instructed not to do this.