burning to DVD

[aoehlke]

Hi guys, LOVING my sagetv!!!

have a quick question though, not directly related to sage, but indirectly.
The other day, I recorded a 1 hour TV show... I think I had the sage quality setting at either highest, or DVD standard play... cant remember.

Anyway, the resulting file was about 3GB. I wanted to burn this to a DVD, but nero kept saying "file is larger then 2gb, cannot record"... or somethign like that.

I had selected DVD video as the project type in nero, I thought a DVD video could be 4.7GB (ie the size of a regular blank DVD)... but I must be mistaken, or I dont understand exactly what is going on.

can anyone shed any light... I'm more interested in why you cant burn a 3gb file as DVD video, rather then how to make the file smaller in the first place(i know i could use DVD long play to get a file closer to 2GB.)

any advice welcomed!

cheers
AO

[gplasky]

What version of Nero? Make sure in Nero you picked that you were going to burn to a DVD and not a CD. Plus you need to provide the exact error message. I use Nero Recode to take a 6GB Sage movie down to fit on a 4GB DVD and burn.

Gerry

[stanger89]

You'll need to use an authoring program to make the DVD structure before using Nero to actually burn the Video DVD (I think Nero comes with one such program). Yes DVDs can hold 4.7GB (more like 4.3-4.4 in practice), but the maximum file size supported by the DVD format is either 1 or 2GB (not completely sure).

[GbrNole]

pretty sure it's a 2 gig chunk max per vob section. as stanger said you have to reauthor and during this process you can create as many sections as you like equal to or less than that file size.

i haven't used it but i heard winavi is real easy to use one step process for making dvd's.

[aoehlke]

doh!
i forgot!

i usually use that tmpenc dvd author to do that first then i burn!
my bad... sorry guys, but thanks for the useful replies.