only half the movie on DVD+R

[crispycritter911]

I finally got a new system and I also purchased a HP 200e DVD writer, I have been in the VCD scene for about a year+ but new to the DVD scene. I have ripped Scary Movie 2 and encoded it it a DVD compatible format.
The whole movie is on my harddrive, reall good quality, and flawless play back... but when I try burning it with HP's software package I only get at most, half of the video on the disc. The software says it sucessfully copied it to the disc but the DVD+R is only half filled. Whats the deal. . Any help would be greatful. But for any doubt its the computer's fault I'll include the specs:
P4 2.8Ghz
1 Gig. of 1066 MHz Rhambus RAM
Asus P4T533-C motherboard
Soundblaster Audigy Gamer Soundcard
ATI 7500 AIW Video card 64MB
100Gig Western Digital
LG DVD-CD-R/RW
HP dvd 200e

[dc91gt]

umm how big is the mpeg on your HD?

-d

[crispycritter911]

The size of my Mpeg file is 2.4Gig and the software that I am using is "Sonic My DVD".

[heretic422]

My experience with MyDVD is that if the MPEG you're burning is over 2.0GB, it will explode to over the capacity of the blank. There's a little bar graph in the lower right hand corner that tells you the size before you burn.

Good Luck.

[ghoster]

you should try using different program. the reason why it is exploding is because it is changing the audio to pcm format which takes up a lot of space.
if i was you i would use ifoedit95. you will have to sperate the audio and video though. then just use nero to burn the dvd files ifoedit made......

[tonyp12]

The size of my Mpeg file is 2.4Gig

How big was the Movie part in the first place?
After you use ifoedit to strip out some french/spanish audio.

You re-enoded at too low bitrate, always aim for 3.8GB m2v's
plus 450mb for the AC3 audio.

[crispycritter911]

thanks guys

[Benzima]

I had a very similar problem. I was trying to back up The Sopranos Disc 3 from the second season. The whole disc is +7G but DVDXCopy wanted to break it into 2 disk. Disk 1 with 2.1G and Disk 2 with .4G. For some strange reason the other +4.5G was missing or not registering. The DVD has 3 episodes but it said I could only put 7 of 8 chapters from the first episode on Disk 1. Chapters 1-7 accounted for 2.1G. Chapter 8 was only .4G. It wouldn't let me move the .4G for Chapter 8 to the first disk and the other 2 episodes accounting for the remaining +4.5G wasn't accounted for.

I tried a different DVD, Attack of the Clone and the entire +8Gig Disk 1 at 3.96G and Disk 2 at 4.28G was accounted for. Weird. Very weird.

Any ideas? Thanxxx in advance