Sectors Error While Burning

[rckowal]

I just tried burning three video clip episodes to a DVD5 using DVD Flick & ImgBurn v.2.5.4. The total playing time for the clips is about 1hr. 20mins. Flick ran through it's steps OK then ImgBurn started up. Some where around that point, an error message popped up saying (best I can recall) that there was not enough sectors available to burn the disc. It asked if I wanted to proceed anyway, so I clicked yes. After awhile, the disc was burned but would not finalize. ImgBurn hung so I had to force it to close using the Windows Task Manager. When I played the disc on my PC, the first two clips played OK but the third one got to 18 minutes (clip is 27 mins.) where it stopped & hung.

Although I know my way around DVD Flick, DVD burning, etc. I don't know anything about disc sectors. From what I'm seeing, it appears (right or wrong?) that the space needed to burn the clips to the DVD was greater than what was available on the DVD disc. Is this so?

What went wrong here & how can I avoid repeating this on future burns? Do I need to shorten the video project time? If so, can you estimate how much?

[DB83]

Not used DVD Flick for a long time now but is there a bitrate setting or a 'automatically fit to disk' setting ?.

Seems that your bit rate was too high e,g 1 hr 20 at 8000 kbps would exceed the capacity for a DVD5. 6000 kbps is somewhat closer.

"The disk would not finalise". And it played on your PC?? Me confused or what !!!!!!!

[rckowal]

Not used DVD Flick for a long time now but is there a bitrate setting or a 'automatically fit to disk' setting ?.

Seems that your bit rate was too high e,g 1 hr 20 at 8000 kbps would exceed the capacity for a DVD5. 6000 kbps is somewhat closer.

"The disk would not finalise". And it played on your PC?? Me confused or what !!!!!!!

Thanks for the reply. DVD Flick has both bit-rate options - automatic or custom. In this case, I used automatic (8000kps). Since posting, I found that the finished DVD (ts) file was actually 5.1GB, which agrees with your comments.

I've also learned that ImgBurn has an assessment feature which showed me that the 5.136Gb (ts) file needed 2,629,920 Sectors yet a DVD5 only has 2295,104 (4.482Gb).

No you're not confused. As I said, ImgBurn did not confirm that the disc was finalized but when I played it with Media Player Classic, it played OK (until it hung). One thing I did notice however was that the lip sync trailed the sound by a fraction of a second (audio sync of the master was good). I don't know if there is any connection between these conditions or not. What do you think?

[hech54]

Under normal circumstances DVDFlick will easily compile decent quality clips into a watchable DVD. Without knowing what these mystery clips were to begin with(or what type/brand DVD blanks you are using) it would be impossible for anyone to pinpoint any other reason except "User Wishful Thinking".

[rckowal]

Under normal circumstances DVDFlick will easily compile decent quality clips into a watchable DVD. Without knowing what these mystery clips were to begin with(or what type/brand DVD blanks you are using) it would be impossible for anyone to pinpoint any other reason except "User Wishful Thinking".

In this case, it didn't matter. Problem was solved by simply reducing default bitrate. Now making excellent DVDs.