How do I get and estimate of the final .iso file size.

[Shaba1]

Ok after reading the guides here and searching the web. I ALMOST got a dvd burned. I have several .mpg1 files that I want to burn onto dvd. I finally came across DivXtoDVD. I picked two mpg files that are.2.056GB and 1.836GB To combine onto on DVD with no menus or chapters. When I ran DivXtoDVD on those to files it gave me a VIDEO_TS folder with a bunch of ifo,vob and bup file. So far so good. Then I started ImgTools Classic and chose as the souce folder the folder ABOVE that VIDEO_TS file. I picked my output folder and the lable that I wanted that dvd to have and clicked Image.

Well Imgtools told me that the final .iso file was going to be 5.218GB which is larger then a single layer dvd could hold. So after all that work it seems I must start from the beginning and chose a single file in DivXtoDVD So be it.

But would there be anyway of estimating before I started the size of the final .iso file?? other then adding up the file sizes of the individual .mpg files? I did that in this case and it came out to about 3.942GB which is much smaller then the 4.3GB a single layer dvd-r can hold. For some reason after all the processing that final iso was going to be 5.21 GB???

[manono]

Hi-

Something's wrong somewhere. ImgTool Classic gives me an ISO or IMG file about 1 MB larger than the contents of the VIDEO_TS file.

[Krispy Kritter]

The image is getting larger because your input files are being converted to dvd spec mpeg2, thus the size is changing.

You could import your created files into dvdshrink and allow it to shrink the files to fit onto a single layer dvd.