DVDA File Sizes: heads Up

farss wrote on 10/31/2003, 4:20 PM

I've posted this in the DVDA forum but lately it doesn't seem to get read too much. My apologies if this is bleeding obvious to most of you but its sure wasn't to me.

By default i.e. out of the box, DVDA assumes you are using 3.95 GB media.
This has caused me no end of anguish, now maybe its just a bad case of RTFM, but I've seen a lot of discussion about this topic and this never rated a mention so I'm guessing a lot of people may have missed this small but highly significant point.

Hope I've saved some else a lot of head scratching.

Comments

Ron Lucas wrote on 10/31/2003, 4:28 PM

I'm not sure if my comment here is related to what you are talking about, but I've been able to render MPEG2 files from Vegas that are over 4GB, last one was approx 4.4GB and DVDA took it just fine.

Ron

farss wrote on 10/31/2003, 4:33 PM

Your quite right, DVDA will 'take' it just fine BUT if you go into Optimise without changing media to 4.7GB it'll tell you you're over capacity!
When you go to Burn it'll also issue irrelevant warnings.

In real bytes the capacity of a DVD is 4.3GBs but the figure you're talking about is also in unreal bytes.

Jsnkc wrote on 10/31/2003, 4:39 PM

Wondering how you burned a 4.4GB file on a disc that only holds about 4.37GB???? That's some serious overburning!

farss wrote on 10/31/2003, 5:45 PM

It'll work because the 4.4 GBytes isn't REAL Gbytes, the same as the 4.7Gbytes isn't. You can get trapped making the adjustment twice.