Making a DVD with more than 4gig of vobs

[Chud]

Hi all

I want to make a music DVD containing many different video clips BUT when added together they are more than 4gig in size.

Can I just use TMPGEnc DVD Author to make the OUTPUT FILE and then use DVD Shrink to shrink that file to fit onto a 4gig DVD-R disc?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Many thanks.

[Chunky Chicken]

Yep1

[andyp1]

When TDA says it's too big just click ignore , and it will create your oversized project. Then Shrink to fit.

A DVD-R can hold almost 4.38GB.

[bugster]

When TDA says it's too big just click ignore , and it will create your oversized project. Then Shrink to fit.
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TDA will create projects up to the size of a Dual layer DVD (~9Gigs), but not more. Shrinking anything that big to a DVDr would probably look like s**t anyway.

[steptoe]

You'll have a hell of a job trying to sqeeze down anything that big to fit on a single DVD, I tried fitting 6 50 minute epsiodes on a single DVD

Your right about TMPGenc DVD Author, just ignore the warning, and it will author that oversized DVD, then run it through a transcoder

I tried DVD2One 1.4 and Intervideo DVD Copy 2, neither could transcode about 9-10GB of data down to the size needed for burning to a single DVD-R

They both nearly managed it, but not quite, about 500MB over, so had to put 4 episodes per DVD, plus I wanted to see just how far I could push the software


Reason : I'm just too tight



So, you're looking at about a maximum of 4 1/2 to 5 hours of whatever (movies, episodes, etc, etc) DVD ripped stuff to make sure it fits on a single DVD-R

This is where dual layer media will come in handy !!


Apparently the next release of TMPGenc DVD Author will support duel layer. I assume they mean author and burning in one software package




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