can't burn 75mins of mpeg onto 80min cdr

[aglips]

Hi. I'm fairly new at this so please be patient.
I was able to rip 8 of my dvd movies but 2 of them, "The patriot" and "Gladiator", I had to use 3 discs for each movie.
I followed Sefy's guide and used smartripper, dvdavi and then TMPGEnc.
Is there a trick to making 2 1/2 movies fit into just 2 cds?

[thenewboy]

aglips,

Have you tried using Sefys' TMPGEnc. template? Download them in the "Tools" section. Says it could fit 85+ min movie into a single CD. Good Luck, Jordan

[MicoMan]

I had a similar Problem with a mpeg rip which was under 80 min after cutting but would go off the scale with Nero?

In the end I de-multiplexed the file and then re-multiplexed and it worked.

I think it may have been something to do with setting it for VCD in TMPGEnc cutter?

Also check to see it the mpeg is VCD compliant

[Sefy]

Sounds a bit weird you can't fit 75min of movie into 80min CDR, you can even fit that into 74min with a bit of overburning, it shouldn't be too much of a problem.

What is the size of your resulting 75min part ? is it 750mb ?

[aglips]

Sefy, I'm not so sure but I think it was over a little over 710 mb and my cd only goes as much as 700mb.
I have a sony 8X8X24 spressa burner.
Is there a way to overburn.
I'm just a newbie at this and any help you can give will be greatly appreciated.

[Sefy]

aglips, even if your file is 710mb, that would mean the play is about 71min, you don't need to overburn, when burning a VideoCD type of file, you can burn 740mb of movie on a 74min CDR.

You just gotta make sure you are using a VideoCD authoring burn program, like Nero for example which has a specific VideoCD and SuperVCD options.

[aglips]

Sefy, I use Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum to burn my vcds.
doesn't it look for MBs rathe than mins. since my disc will only hold 700mb then how can I burn over 700 onto it?
now I'm really confused.

[Sefy]

Kind of a pity you use EZ CD, but that's your choice, anyway, when you burn a VCD/SVCD, you need to select the VideoCD Creator function of your EZ CD software, then in VCD mode, each 1min = 10mb, this is a standard, so you really don't need to worry

[thxkid]

Buy 99min. CD-R's and should be able to get on 2 CD's. Providing your burner can overburn and burn up to 99min. I know HP 9100 and 9200 series can, I know I have one of each.

[Sefy]

thxkid, you sure about that ? HP doesn't tend to support those large capcity media.

[House de Kris]

aglips,

Thanks for mentioning that you are using Sleazy CD Creator 5 Plat. This is the root of your problems. Due to a clever bug in Sleazy, it will refuse to create a VCD greater than 65 minutes without some prodding from you, the user. It would appear that the writers of this program forgot that VCDs are written in a different mode than data discs. It says, "oh, you want to write more than 650M, well this ain't possible." In reality, as stated elsewhere, a 650M data disc holds 740M of music or VCD. Even worse, the Video CD creator doesn't know of the existance of 700M/80minute discs.

The solution is easy, use the Video CD Creator to make a disc image. Close that program then open the (data) CD Creator. Burn a disc from the image. Works for me everytime.

[Sefy]

hmm... that's nice to know! I knew EZ CD sucked, but I didn't know it sucked that much

[aglips]

I copied my nero 5.0.3.1 from my other computer and will try to burn a 79min movie (american pie) w/ it using a 800mb 70min disc.
hope it works.

[aglips]

By the way, as long as the movie is less than 140mins long, I have no problem using easy cd creator. it's quite easy to use.

[Sefy]

Nero 5.031 ? why don't you atleast get 5.048 or 5.564 ? what you have there is really old version, i'd recommand you use a more recent build.