9 gig limit

[dkelly701]

I got an error while encoding that said that I exceeded the nine gig limit. I was burning to the hard drive at the time. Any explanations and any way to get around it?

[Nilfennasion]

1) What program are you encoding with?

2) What is your procedure?

3) Are you aware that 9 GB to a computer OS and 9 GB to DVD manufacturers are two different things? You see, the people who make DVD+R DL discs will tell you that 9,000,000,000 (I think) bytes is 9 GB. It's actually more like 7.9 GB, because there are 1024 bytes to the kilobyte and so on.

[dkelly701]

I am using Windows XP Media Edition 2005. I recorded from TV a movie 3 hours and 45 minutes. (Gods and Generals) Recordings in Media Edition are recorded in a format call DVR-MS and this file is listed in windows as 11,674,0800 kb. I used TMPGEnc 3.0 Express to encode it to mpeg, set it to fit on 1 DVD and it reduced it to a mpeg file of 4,278,929 kb. Sonic RecordNow and Sonic MYDVD came on my system so I used MyDVD to “make a DVD folder” on the hard drive. (the burner on my brand new Dell computer doesn’t work so dell is sending me a new one) At the very end of this process I got the “you have exceeded the 9 gig limit” error. How did my movie go from a 4,278,929 kb mpeg to over 9 gigs during this process? I was wondering if this is a limit in the Sonic software. It is double layer DVD compatible so they might have it set to a limit of 9 gigs for that reason. It seems if I am writing to the hard drive this error should not apply. My main concern is why it went from a 4 gig mpeg to over the 9 gig limit. Any thoughts?

[bugster]

Sonic MYDVD came on my system so I used MyDVD to “make a DVD folder” on the hard drive.

At the very end of this process I got the “you have exceeded the 9 gig limit” error. How did my movie go from a 4,278,929 kb mpeg to over 9 gigs during this process?

How long from pressing start to the error message?
My guess would be that Sonic is re-encoding, it seems to like to do that even with some DVD-compliant mpegs.

9 Gigs is the maximium size that any DVD cane be authored as it is the space available on a DL DVD.

I suggest you try a different authoring package. TmpGenc DVD author is simple to use and has a 30-day free trial. DVD-Lab is more complex, a bit more expensive but much more flexible. There are plenty of others to choose from too.

[dkelly701]

I believe that it was at the stage where it was about to start writing the files to disk. Maybe it is at this point after it finishes processing and checks to see what it has done that it sees it is over 9 gigs. I am very new at this and admit I don't understand exactly what is happening during these processes. Even if Sonic is encoding again, why would it go from a little over 4 gigs to over 9 gigs in this process. When it is authored for reading by a DVD player, isn't it still mpeg files, just structured a little different? I have done this only a few times but I don’t remember this part of the process doubling the size of the project.

[bugster]

Even if Sonic is encoding again, why would it go from a little over 4 gigs to over 9 gigs in this process.

IF Sonic is re-encoding again, it is probably using a higher bitrate than the original, maybe changing the resolution, possibly using CBR encoding and probably converting the audio to uncompressed PCM.

Use a different authoring package, one that does not inlcude an ecoder.

[dkelly701]

I was planning on getting TMPGEnc DVD Author. Do you know if this software would sove my problem? Thanks for you patience.

[cd090580]

Try with the trial version. It's fully functional for 21 days.

[bugster]

I was planning on getting TMPGEnc DVD Author. Do you know if this software would sove my problem? Thanks for you patience.

Well, it won't re-encode the video, and it won't convert the audio to PCM, (but it will convert the audio to 2Ch Ac3 if you also get the AC3 plugin). If that solves your problem, then the answer is Yes, it will.

[dkelly701]

Thank you. As soon as my new CPU gets here, I will download the trial version and try it out. Thanks again.