DVDA Not Enough Space Error - Ugh

fldave wrote on 1/4/2010, 3:24 PM
I have ignored the DVDA space warnings in the past, but this stopped me dead in my tracks.

I have one hour long MPG, plus 31 ~one minute mpgs on multiple menu pages. Each mpg has 4 audio tracks. I added a text object to the main menu, then suddenly each of the 31 mpgs increased in "estimated size" to actual size plus 4.38 GB.

So it was trying to make space for a 140 Gigabyte DVD. Since I didn't have 140 GB avail on that machine, It would not let me Prepare or even Burn the previously prepared version.

I couldn't find anyone else reporting any problems like this, so I reported it to Sony. Glad I backed up several versions. I opened an old file and was able to continue with my work.

Anyone else have a problem like this?

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 1/4/2010, 4:04 PM
Have you studied the optimized file or adjusted the settings in the Optimize DVD workspace?
fldave wrote on 1/4/2010, 4:33 PM
In the optimized disc menu, each of the 31 clips are 4.4 GB estimated size. These are fully encoded m2v files from TMPGenc, with no recompress indicated.

On further investigation, it is the 4th audio track where the issue is. AC3 3MB file is tagged as a 4.2991 GB estimated size. Something clearly messed up in the .dar file, I loaded and tested each of these 4 tracks several days ago.

I see nowhere that you can "adjust" the settings?
Steve Grisetti wrote on 1/5/2010, 5:26 AM
In the Optimize DVD workspace, you can set your individual files to compress and you can use the Fit to Disc feature to squeeze your files down to fit on a DVD.
fldave wrote on 1/5/2010, 6:07 AM
But I don't want to recompress any of them. They are all optimized to fit the disc already. DVDA on it's own decided to add 4.3+ GB to each of 31 .ac3 files. That is a program error somewhere.

I went back to a backup copy, added what I needed to again, then prepared and burned a DVD successfully with all of the same source files.

The .DAR file got corrupted and there is no apparent way to override the outrageous estimated values.
musicvid10 wrote on 1/5/2010, 7:27 AM
Have you tried Preparing the project and bypass the warnings? What size does it come out?

I'm unsure where you added all these extra media? Are they just menu thumbnails?
fldave wrote on 1/5/2010, 7:34 AM
But it would not even prepare it because the DVDA Temp folder/drive didn't have 140 GB available. The Next button was grayed out.

That machine with all of the DVD source files on it didn't have that much hard drive space available. I guess I could have temporarily pointed the DVDA temp file folder to a network drive to see if it would straighten out the estimates.

Edited: There are 31 clips approx 1 minuted long each that are placed on several menu pages. Each of the 31 clips has 4 audio tracks the viewer can switch to. All of the files total out to about 4.3 GB for the DVD. The Total Estimated disc space suddenly jumped to 140 GB. All of the added estimated space was applied to each of the 4th tracks of each of the 31 clips. Example for one of the one minute clips:

Video Track .m2v - 58MB
Audio Track 1 .ac3 - 3MB
Audio Track 2 .ac3 - 3MB
Audio Track 3 .ac3 - 3MB
Audio Track 4 .ac3 - 4,299.1MB

The estimated size of track 4 audio is greater than the total actual size of the entire disc contents.