Unable to burn 820 mb ish Bin files

[teamplumber]

SO I have an SVCD thats already in BIN and CUE format abd I use an 80 min CD.... I know that usually a Bin file of say 820 mb will still fit on the 80 min disc..... so my problem is that when my computer burns a disc, it always locks up the process because its almost liek the cd runs out of room but the program thinks its still trying to finish writing it... I could let it sit their for 50 hours and it still wouldn't complete the process

anyone else have this problem ? or know what to do. .. I know that I can't overburn but usually this isn't a problem

thanks
-b

[mats.hogberg]

I think you'd have a hard time writing a 820 MB BIN on a 80 min CD. Only option AFAICS is to use 90 min CD-R

/Mats

[DOGLOOP]

I presume you are burning this w/ CDRWIN.
If so, when the *.cue file is loaded & CDRWIN computes the time (in minutes) of your data it simply must match BOTH your cd-rw drives capability & blank media.
I always recommend opening the *.bin & *.cue in CDMAGE 1st, that way you can see the exact layout & contained data + it shows how big the file is in minutes


DogLoop

[fantomlord]

another thing you can try is to mount the image with daemontools, and then do a cd copy

[kitty]

You can't overburn because of your burner not supporting it?

[teamplumber]

correction... the file is too big but in cdrwin it shows it to be just under a few seconds of the cd capacity... Chances are it was designed that way, but I think that the extra open/close of the cd is taking up that space and it's unable to close at the end because their is no room left on the cd.... I think ill try doign a disc copy with daemon

thanks

[teamplumber]

Okay I tried that and and it does the same thing, it locks up , wild writign the readout track in CDRWIN... CDRWIN hasn't frozern up either, ....

the only thing i can think of trying is to use a mpeg editor and get rid of somethign on the vid ....

[Bongo]

On that topic, I've just fallen foul of the same problem. Got an 800 MB file which wont fit on my CD-RW. So I have two questions:-

Is there an easy way of hacking out some of the file - or do I need to go back right to the start of the whole process and split the avi up in to smaller chunks?

Secondly, is there a way of knowing in advance how big the file is going to be, so that I dont make the same mistake again?

Cheers,
Bongo