I had an interesting situation today, and I am not sure I can explain it...
In making multiple copies of this season's volleyball games for some other players' parents, one of the disks had 4.9GB volume on the first burn. Basically, I used the bitrate calculator when I rendered but made a slight error. There were 12 games, and I was able to get 4 games on each of three disks--and the other two disks ended up being about 4.2-4.4GB each. But the third ended up being 4.9GB, and I couldn't get DVDA to compress it to fit onto a 4.7GB standard DVD. No problem, I just used a double density DVD because I don't have the 2 hours that it will take to re-render at a lower bitrate.
So when I burned the first DVD it worked fine with the larger capacity disk; but then for the subsequent copies of this disk I ended up using a single density DVD because the data volume had decreased to 4.6GB? Why?
I guess the question then is, why does the media volume decrease on subsequent burns, when none of the parameters are changed? I simply chose "yes" when DVDA offered to burn another copy of the same disk--and was then able to use a single density disk on all subsequent copies.
TIA.
TB
In making multiple copies of this season's volleyball games for some other players' parents, one of the disks had 4.9GB volume on the first burn. Basically, I used the bitrate calculator when I rendered but made a slight error. There were 12 games, and I was able to get 4 games on each of three disks--and the other two disks ended up being about 4.2-4.4GB each. But the third ended up being 4.9GB, and I couldn't get DVDA to compress it to fit onto a 4.7GB standard DVD. No problem, I just used a double density DVD because I don't have the 2 hours that it will take to re-render at a lower bitrate.
So when I burned the first DVD it worked fine with the larger capacity disk; but then for the subsequent copies of this disk I ended up using a single density DVD because the data volume had decreased to 4.6GB? Why?
I guess the question then is, why does the media volume decrease on subsequent burns, when none of the parameters are changed? I simply chose "yes" when DVDA offered to burn another copy of the same disk--and was then able to use a single density disk on all subsequent copies.
TIA.
TB