Not enough room on the dvd-r media

[ansberry]

I used MacTheRipper to rip a dvd that i just bought. The resulting TS file was 5.2 gigs of info. How did they get that much info on the disk? I'm wanting to burn it with Toast, but there isn't enough room on the blank media. I can't seem to find any settings in Toast that will allow me to sacrifice quality to get more info on the disk either. The original disk does not appear to be two sided. Is there bigger capacity blank media out there? Any ideas as to what I could do?

By the way, thanks to all those who helped me get through my previous project- burning videos of my son to dvd. I finally got it all to work.

[Frobozz]

Most commercial DVDs are dual-layer (not two sided) This nearly doubles the capacity of the DVD. A major reason applications such as DVD2OneX and Popcorn exist is to "requantize" the video from dual-layer DVDs to fit on single-layer media. So you need to get one of those applications.

[ansberry]

I am trying this again with a music dvd that I recently purchased. It is too big for the dvd, but it only has 60 minutes of video on it. But it is taking up 4.9 gigs. It has a lot of extra junk like interviews and biography junk. I thought maybe I could just pull the files related to the unwanted junk off and burn the rest, but now it tells me there isn't enough memory. I'm running over a gig of ram on OS10.2.8. I can't find a way to allocate more ram to the program. I thought OSX allocated what was needed. Does this have something to do with the files being linked into a menu or something? Is it possible to edit TS files down by just dumping unwanted files?

thanks-Mike

[destreaga]

I am trying this again with a music dvd that I recently purchased. It is too big for the dvd, but it only has 60 minutes of video on it. But it is taking up 4.9 gigs. It has a lot of extra junk like interviews and biography junk. I thought maybe I could just pull the files related to the unwanted junk off and burn the rest, but now it tells me there isn't enough memory. I'm running over a gig of ram on OS10.2.8. I can't find a way to allocate more ram to the program. I thought OSX allocated what was needed. Does this have something to do with the files being linked into a menu or something? Is it possible to edit TS files down by just dumping unwanted files?

thanks-Mike

Get a copy of DVD2oneX and select the language you want. Its that simple. It will compress the video enough so that it fits on a 4.7GB DVD (usually to 4.37). If you have the bucks and a Dual Layer burner you can use dual layer discs that usually hold 8.5GB of info, but are a bit pricey and the video quality to most viewers is the same. One more thing I always do a whole disc copy but, you can do a movie only with MTR this may strip way some unneeded clutter.

[galactica]

Other option would be to get a dual layer burner and some dual layer dvds The prices of these have dropped significantly

sooon there will be no need for dvd2onex

[noconclusion]

There are pleanty of guides about too. If you read some of them lots of your questions will be answered. You can also search the forums,

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=272980&highlight=

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[tgpo]

https://www.videohelp.com/~tgpo/dvd2one.html

[GreyDeath]

You also might have a PCM uncompressed audio track on the DVD that can take up to a Gig of space. If it does have the PCM track, you can get rid of it if you don't want to sacrifice any video quality and aren't going to be playing it on an uber sound system.

[terryj]

In short Mike, without a re-quantimizer like
DVD2ONEX or PopCorn, you can't get it onto a
DVD-R using Toast, without either

(a) going back to MTR and ripping movie only, but
be warned that if all you have is PCM audio, you still
could end up with a big file and be stuck.

(b) investing in a Dual Layer DVD drive and
EXPENSIVE dual layer blanks.

All you need is just that one missing piece of software
and you are set, with your current equiptment.
We reccommend DVD2ONEX, but Popcorn is just as good.
Your choice...


and ps. :
OSX does allocate swap memory from the main
(boot) HD, but if the dang thing is full, it can't
pull any swap memory to do the job of running
the OS and MTR...
You should keep a mim of 20% of your drive free
for swap. Seeing as you have only one HD,
and its 80GB, that means you should keep free a mim
of 16GB. Do you have that much free space?

if not, that's why OS X is telling you not enough memory.....

[ansberry]

Once again, thanks for all the help. I did go back and read the previous applicable posts before I got into this again. I have the DVD2ONE demo, but haven't purchased the full version. I am trying to decide whether or not to get a dual layered DVD.

Using MTR to pull out just the feature seems to have worked. I got the file and it is small enough. I haven't burned it yet.

Again, thanks for the help!

[noconclusion]

Glad you got everything as you'd like. I didn't mean my tone to suggest you shouldn't post but I was just trying to say that you can often find very useful info out there, and sometimes quicker than posting,

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