DVD-Lab problem - Oversize DVDs

[Reality]

I have been using DVD-Lab successfully and have transcoded several movies from Divx using Canopus ProCoder and then authoring them using DVD-Lab and burning using Nero.

I have a consistent problem when I author a DVD that is bigger than the capacity of a DVDr. My intention is to author an oversize DVD and then split it into 2 disks with DVD shrink.

OK - here is the problem. The DVDs I author go to completion without error but they won't play past a certain point. It seems that DVD-Lab truncates the DVD.

When I try opening the DVD in DVD shrink it gets an error saying it couldn't find the next VOB file indicating that DVD-Lab truncated it for some reason.

Will DVD-Lab not compile an oversized DVD? Is there a setting somewhere I am missing?

How do you author an oversize DVD if you can't do it with DVD-Lab?

[Reality]

I just checked the size of the DVD-Lab output files and they are exactly 4GB according to windows explorer. I wonder if this problem is caused by using a Fat-32 drive for the temp drive and an NTSF drive for the output?

Do you have to use NTSF for both?

[Reality]

Ok that was the problem.

Even though the authored DVD does not have any files larger than 1 GB it seems the temp file has to be the size of the whole project which was over 6 GB.

You can't create a file greater than 4gb in Fat32 so it was stopping after 4 GB. Some sort of error message would have been nice!

I used the WinXP convert ustility to convert the drive I was using as temp to NTSF and it worked fine.

[rcb]

Glad we could Help !!

Just kidding... seriously, was good to see that you "closed" your thread with your own solution - always helps others with similar problems.

[sfalcon]

DVD Lab does a good job, I think. Even if the DVD files are bigger than 4.3Gb, you can use Instant Copy or DVDShrink to place yr work on a DVD empty record, apparently with no problems.
But I have a little problem that you might be able to help me: some commercial DVD's have a poor sound quality and sometimes I try to edit the sound track and re-author the whole DVD. I extract wav files from the VOB's using VirtualDub and then I equalize those files with CoolEdit Pro. I would like to convert the wav's back to AC3 5.1 or DTS before remuxing with DVDLab. I don't know what program to use for that purpose.
Can anyone help me pls?
Tks a lot!
sfalcon

PS.: Using the edited wav files to remux, I found that the result was not so perfect, there were some gaps (??)

[Jynks]

I am having this same problem... When I try to compile my DVDr, DVDlab just stops at 8.38GB every time...

The temp dir and the project dir on the same drive, witch is a Xp NTFS drive. DVDlab reports that the Tempory Space = 3.56GB and the estimated DVD size is 11.1GB.

I wish to to build the dvd then use dvd rebuilder and cce to get it all to fit on one disk, so I do not have to go nuts playing around with encoding options, just encode everything oversize high rez and then shrink it.

Even though the authored DVD does not have any files larger than 1 GB it seems the temp file has to be the size of the whole project which was over 6 GB.

How do you set the temp file?