Nero tells me "cache file too small" -??

[heathermcnaughton]

I've successfully copied a movie onto a Sony DVD+RW using DVD Decrypter, Ifoedit and Nero (I have a Sony DRU 500A burner). I've used cheaper DVD-Rs and had varying degrees of success, and finally managed to get my local shop to order Sony DVD+Rs for me. But, Nero is telling me the cache file is too small. What does this mean, and what can I do? The film definitely fits on a blank DVD - I'm spending a fortune here on blank DVDs and not getting anywhere fast.

Thanks

Heather

[garryheather]

I think you will find it's complaining about a lack of free disk space, it's got nothing to do with the size of a film vs. the blank, unless of course having the DVD content on your hard disk has filled it up, of course.

Your writer will probably have some sort of cache on it - that's a load of memory to help maintain a constant flow of data to the writer in case the PC slows down for a while for some reason (like a fragmented hard disk).

Nero - and a lot of other packages, also have a cache, where they allocate themselves some of your free disk space where it "reads ahead" and then retrieves data from the cache instead, acting as another buffer. This is good news if you ever decide to burn a CD at 48x from source material on a floppy disk that peaks at transfer rate of 150K a second, for example.

If Nero is complaining it can't allocate the cache it wants, check in the settings that you haven't specified a larger cache than you have free disk space and I think you will be OK - but having never seen this error before I could be talking absolute rot !!

Hope that helps.