Overburning

[adamthole]

What is the most that you have ever over burned successfully? And can someone explain the over burning process to me? like how it can do that? I'm just curious. Thanks.

[harrymj3]

I have burned 88+ min on a reg 80 min prime peripherals cdr using VCDEasy and sefy's SEVCD template. It worked great in Apex 500 and RCA 5240 but the sound was choppy in my Pioneer players. Just ck the allow overburn box in VCDEasy and let her buck. Have fun and HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!

[adamthole]

Sorry, I should have been more specific, I know how to burn, but what actually happens on the cd, that gets it to overburn? Thanks.

[Sefy]

What happens is that the burner uses the most outter rings of the CDR media but this doesn't work on all CDR's and not all CD-ROM's are capable of handling it.

[gangsterusa]

Sorry to horn in your thread but mine got deleted somehow. Can someone tell me where the "overbrning" option is on Nreo. I'm trying to burn an SVCD of a 795.778mb DVD MPEG-2 file onto a Sony 80min CD and Nero is telling me that the CD-R doesn't have the capacity to burn this SVCD.

What to do??

[Sefy]

The overburning option is located in the File / Preferences / Extra, just tell it the maximum size of the overburning your CDRW can do, and that's about it

PS: for 795mb you don't need overburning, you should be able to burn it in VideoCD mode without a problem.

[vitualis]

As what Sefy said.

At the beginning of a CD-R/W disc, it has some information that only the CD-R/W burning drive can read -- including how many sectors that the disc contains (e.g., 74 minutes or 80 minutes). Most discs, however, will actually have more sectors than specifically stated. Burning more than the stated amount is "overburning" and how much you can do reliably depends on both your media and your drive.

@ harrymj3: we don't know how much you've actually overburnt!! For anything other than standard VCD (e.g., XVCD, SVCD or XSVCD), the play length of the disc means nothing -- rather, it is the size of the file that is important.

Regards.

[fantomlord]

The overburning option is located in the File / Preferences / Extra, just tell it the maximum size of the overburning your CDRW can do, and that's about it

PS: for 795mb you don't need overburning, you should be able to burn it in VideoCD mode without a problem.

I seem to be running into the same problem as gangsterusa above...I've got a 779MB mpeg-2 file, and Nero is saying that it is ~817MB. I tried making an image with VCDeasy, but the image ends up being 892MB
is there something I'm missing?

[Sefy]

Don't forget that ontop of the movie, Nero (or any other authoring) adds some extra files, and they take space too, not that much, but some.

Now, file size can be calculated by 1024 or 1048, some even calculate using 1000 (like HDD), so i'm not too worried about what Nero says about filesize.

Try using TSCV, i've seen it calculate filesize much more accuratly.

[fantomlord]

Don't forget that ontop of the movie, Nero (or any other authoring) adds some extra files, and they take space too, not that much, but some.

Now, file size can be calculated by 1024 or 1048, some even calculate using 1000 (like HDD), so i'm not too worried about what Nero says about filesize.

Try using TSCV, i've seen it calculate filesize much more accuratly.

I didn't worry too much, I tried to burn(overburn), but it gave an error.
I did try VCDeasy to make an image, and the 779mb mpeg became a 892MB image!! that's the part that's really got me stumped--I've seen Nero give very large sizes for mpegs before, but always burned just fine when the mpeg was less than 800MB.

[Sefy]

This is just a hunch, it is a possibility, that something in the encoding of the file causes the programs to fill in the "blanks" and create a much larger file.

Have you tried to Demuplex and then Multiplex as Non-Standard and then burn it ?

[fantomlord]

This is just a hunch, it is a possibility, that something in the encoding of the file causes the programs to fill in the "blanks" and create a much larger file.

Have you tried to Demuplex and then Multiplex as Non-Standard and then burn it ?

I haven't tried that yet...when I encoded, though, I used Tmpg for video only, and besweet for audio only, and muxed in Tmpg. Is there a better program for muxing? I still have the .m2v and .mp2 files...should I try muxing with a different program?
thanks for the help

[Sefy]

Just about any MPEG encoder
I'd recommand bbMPEG, i've heard from the experts (vitualis) that it's good at that specific task.