reauthoring DVDR (to change menu) with TMPGEnc DVD Author

[NeonSign]

I'm trying to reauthor a DVD I burned when I first got my drive, as it only has a basic menu on it (one of the default ones created using TMPGEnc DVD Author) and I'd like to make it a little 'prettier.' Now I've ripped the DVDR to my hard drive, the files are 4.35gig.. everything's fine there.

The problem is when I come to use TMPGEnc DVD author. I open a new project, go to "add DVD video" 3 times, to add all three tracks.. and it comes out saying that the size of the DVD is 4.575 gigs, and that it won't fit on the DVDR. What's going on there? I mean, I know there's a guide to reauthor the menu with DVD-lab pro, but it seems like this is something that TMPGEnc should be able to do. So basically I was just wondering if anyone knew why the DVDR is appearing to be over capacity, and if they do.. what could I do about it?

[yoda313]

Hello,

Does it read larger after adding menus?? If so use less chapter marks and don't do motion menus (space hogs).

If it's just a reading error by TDA go ahead and author it anyway. Then go to dvd shrink and open the video_ts folder and shrink it. It should only be a minor quality loss since it almost fits a dvdr.

Kevin

[noki]

"and it comes out saying that the size of the DVD is 4.575 gigs, and that it won't fit on the DVDR. What's going on there?"

That's normal. take that output into any transcoder (DVD Shrink, etc.) for the "fit".

[overloaded_ide]

The DVD shrink after re-authoring does work well.
But no that is not normal I don't think.

I have done this a few times and really it never happen yet. Course maybe your disk and my disks are not filled the same size.

Anyway have you just tried Add DVD video in the program and then let the program copy to the hardrive for you?

It will give you the option to work from disk or copy to drive, let it copy to drive, less chance of errors and it's faster, and if it copies the disk itself seems it should know the size too.

You could also rip the disk as movie only with DVD shrink, then re-author from there. Then you have the old menu stripped out to begin with and should be a smaller size, without shrinking.

SInce your talking about a DVD R and I dought you used a DL disk, there really should be no reason to have to shrink at any time, unless you add stuff!

[noki]

But no that is not normal I don't think.

yes it is if the total size of your project is greater than 4482 Megs. TDA does NOT compress. My projects are always up to 6.0 gigs big. ignore the warnings, create your project, take that output to any program you are comfortable with to compress (encode, transcode, whatever) so the size with fit a DVDR.

[Fragamon]

I encountered a similar problem. TMPGENC reported the DVD was exceeded by a few hundred MB, so I cut out some credits etc to make it fit. After creation however, the total size was only 3.7 GB. Now, I just ignore the warning.