Can it really take almost 9 gigs to create one dvd.

[Greg12]

I have about 2.5 gigs worth of video files in mpeg format.

I"m making MPEG 1 For DVD with AC3 Audio. It says 8.85 gigabytes is not enough.

I don't believe this.

[Greg12]

nobody knows if it's normal for a dvd that will be about 4.0 gigs, to require 9 gigs of hard drive space to make.



I'm using MPEG 1 for DVD with 128k Dolby Digital Sound.

[The village idiot]

Absolutely. Mostly depends on how the program works. Many need to create the DVD folders, and then create the dsik image before burning. That would be double your mpeg size.

And yes, it does suck. That very problem is what made me go and buy another hard drive.

[musher70]

they sell 120g wd hd at circuit city for 100bucks
only 5400rpm though,buffer sucks probably also
but u'd have lots of space

[vitualis]

@ Greg12: as what the others have stated. Making a DVD is probably something that can't be done reliably "on-the-fly" (like CD-ROMs or Audio-CDs) so the authoring proggy makes an intermediary image first.

Thus, you will need disc space equal to the amount for the image (e.g., if you have 4 Gb of files, you will most probably need approx. another 4 Gb of space).

This is a similar situation to some VCD authoring proggies (e.g., VCDEasy / VCDImager). Rather than making and burning the VCD on the fly, it creates an image first (in this case, in CUE/BIN format). Obviously, the scale is a little bit different (~800MB vs. 4.5 Gb free space).

Regards.

[Greg12]

2.33 gigs was the size of the dvd, something's not right, gonna use DVD+RW to see if it's all their



I overode the warning and it made the DVD just fine.


I wish a 120 gig laptop hdd was 100 dollars.

[The village idiot]

Are you using DVD Workshop? I find that it wants about 3 times the size of the mpeg. For some reason it likes to make a new temporary mpeg (after demux/remux) plus the files and then plus the image. I don't use it much because I often don't bother with chapters and such. Too lazy, just want to watch the movie.

As far as hard drives go, you could always get one in/put it in a firewire enclosure. You can get 60 or 80 GB for around $170.00.