End movie size keeps coming out too large in DVD2One..???

[jbenj01]

What the heck am I doing wrong?? Just backed up City By the Sea using DVD2One 1.0.2. Original menu+extras = ~400MB, which left me with 4072MB as plugin size into DVD2One (I rounded it to 4000MB)..

But the end result size of the movie vob's came out waaaay too large to fit onto a dvdr.. ?? I had to reduce plugin size in DVD2One to 3500MB and it BARELY came out small enough to fit onto a dvd-r (total movie/menu/extras came out to 4.36G).

I'm guessing that I did NOT account for the audio file in my calculations??? Anyone??

[pharmco2000]

Did you use DVD2One v1.02 with MakeItEasy v1.6 to copy a DVD-9 to DVD-R with all extras and menu? I did use them both with instruction on doom9.org to successfully copy "Titanic" (194 minutes) to a single DVD-R in just 2 and half hours for the whole work. The picture quality came out pretty good to me. It is much much better than VHS quality and almost like the original. And the DVD-R plays smoothly on four of my DVD Players (Apex AD-1500, Daewoo-3000N, Pioneer DVL-919, and Pioneer DVF-727.) You might download MakeItEasy at doom9.org and follow instruction there to have a try. Good luck buddy.

The whole work might take shorter time if your computer is better than mine. Mine is Intel PIII 800EB-Mhz, 1024MB SDRam, 200GB HD, 32MB Geforce DDR Nvidia Video Card, Sound Blaster Live! Card, and Asus P3V4X MoBoard.

[wulf109]

I had this problem and it was caused by giving vob files that were not in 1GB sizes. I had stream ripped the DVD with Smartripper which produces odd size vob files. DVD2ONE seems to require 1GB vob files to work correctly.

[jbenj01]

wulf,

Just looked at the original vob's and, yes, the 2nd vob is ~800MB, i.e., less than 1Gb..

For future, how do you 'fix' the vob's so that all are 1Gb, save the last?? thanks.

[wulf109]

Switch to DVD Decrypter for ripping,it maintains the 1GB file more reliably than Smartripper.

[jbenj01]

Thanks. I usually use Decrypter but do remembering using Smartripper for some reason last week.. it must have been on City by Sea.