TMpgEnc DVD Author Error???

[untouchableflowz]

I have created a project, in which the total size of the project was 4071mb, but every time the project finishes making the files, it only comes out to be 3.0gb... I tried to burn the files using Nero, and the burning tool through TMPGEnc, and they both failed! Please help me...

[DereX888]

Just a hint:
Perhaps you've used some files stored on a remote/networked drive? TMPGEnc DVD Author will remember in its project all file sizes and settings, even if you have moved the file or renamed it, thus the final image will not include the 'm,issing' file and would be much less than what it was shown in the project.

[untouchableflowz]

No, everything is on the main hard drive, and all of the files are in their original places...

[overloaded_ide]

That is a strange one

So have you tried making a few new projects and see if they are turning out wrong also or just working with that one still?

I never had the finished DVD turn out about 1gig less like is happening to you. And also the only time I had a disk not burn properly or play properly using Tmpgenc DVD Author was because of a bad drive. I made 4 coasters 2 did not burn correctly and aborted, 2 seemed to burn ok but then could not be recognized or used at all in anything.
Lite-on Tech support (on a sunday night even) said it was a defective drive and return to store for exchange or refund.

I think we would need more info, and you should try making a new DVD with other files. Maybe even copy the same files to a new folder and try those agian too from that folder.

One thing I wonder about that has not yet happend to me, is what if the files could not be read for some reason? Say you have a bad sector on your drive, or the file is corupt in one part ect...
I think if the file itself was written to a bad spot on your drive it could not be read and would fail. However I am not sure what happens if you have say 4 files to make up the DVD with and only 1 file cannot be read? Will it abort, give an error, or continue and use the 3 files that can be read and just skip the one file that cannot be read? Since I do not know that answer, I am partly thinking maybe you have a 1 gig file not being read for some reason but the DVD is still created using the rest of the files.
Or as another thought on the same area, perhaps all your source files are being read for making the DVD but then a 1gig VOB is being written to a bad area of a drive, and then that one VOB is not being counted as part of the total when you are ready to burn, thus you are 1 gig short on file size (missing the 1 gig VOB) and also the reason the disk does not play?

Just geussing a bit on the above, but I would use windows explorer to make a new folder on your drive (or better yet a different drive if you have more than one) then copy each created vob to the new folder. See if you have any errors cannot copy file. Also do same with your source files.
I suggest leaving the original files and using copy to make a second set, if you delete the first set and there was a drive error at that location something may be written there again, but leaving the files where they are uses that space still and nothing wil be written there.

I hope you do not have a bad drive, but it does happen.

[untouchableflowz]

I created a couple of other DVD projects, and I added 7 tracks each time... All of the other tracks are created just fine, but the first track keeps coming out to be 6.18mb, when the video file that I use for it is 600mb??? The other videos come out fine... Could there be a problem with my TMPGEnc DVD Author? I use TMPGEnc to encode the files. I tried burning this project to a DVD, but it keeps failing at 11%... I know its because the 1st video track in the compilation, but I do not know why its messing up...

I know it isn't a bad drive, because both of the drives are brand new, and they are NEC-2500... It burns other dvds, but the corrupt projects from DVD Author...

[overloaded_ide]

Are you saying the other DVDs burn fine.
Just one track is turning out the wrong size all the time on this DVD, and that's the only one the DVD crashes durring burning?

If so I would seriously look at the source file for that one track, as it sounds like that's the only time your having trouble.

Been a long night, I'm half asleep now, and maybe I read that wrong.

Can you forget about adding that track and burn the disk with the other 6 and see if it works? Maybe have to re-author the DVD with just the other 6 tracks, and burn that. If it works then you have a bad track for some reason. If it still fails or the first track still comes out as a 6mb file before burning then I don't have any idea.

I never had a problem myself with the program, one of the best most stable programs I ever used for anything it seems! Of course different systems may have other results with it?

But if you can narrow it down to just one file always being the problem, then that's a file problem! Try useing a different file as the first track. Leave out the file that is now the first track and don't use it at all. Then if that works, maybe use this first track as the forth track with all the other same tracks and see if it still works or if it has a problem elsewhere like 33%.
If you can see that one file is not turning out the correct size but all the rest are, and you know the disk is crashing about the time it tries burning the one bad sized file, then I would look at the sizes and move things around re-authoring a few times in other arrangements. I would not try burning and waisting disks anymore If I saw the file size turns out wrong.