ISO file cut off at 99.87% - why?

[postul8or]

I'm attempting to copy DVD to DVD-R, but the ISO file doesn't get created properly. I'm driving this process by using D2SRoBa (not sure if any of the parameters matter really). MkIsosFs_log.txt


This is what the end of my MkIsosFs_log.txt looks like

........
99.40% done, estimate finish Wed Oct 13 00:54:19 2004
99.64% done, estimate finish Wed Oct 13 00:54:19 2004
99.87% done, estimate finish Wed Oct 13 00:54:19 2004
/cygdrive/c/Program Files/DVD2SVCD122b3/DVDAuthor/mkisofs: No space left on device. cannot fwrite 32768*1


When do I this I have plenty of hard drive space left. I tried to burn this ISO just with Nero and what I found was the last bit of the movie was cut off. Nero did warn me that some header length or number of blocks or something was inconsistent and prompted me to fix it. I said No, thinking it won't matter anyway because the last 0.13% of this file is probably missing anyway. Three questions:

1. What can do I to avoid the error in the MkIsoFs? Do I need to fake somehow using less than 4350MB so that it doesn't allocate a few too many KB and go over some maximum length? My file system is FAT32, but in WinXP I don't think there is a problem with a 4 Gb file size limit is there?

2. Is using Nero good enough to burn this?

3. If I fix that error I was getting in Nero about the header or whatever it won't fix the problem right? Was I correct to assume that the last 0.13% was left out of the ISO image?

Thanks to anyone that can help or point me to another post with the answer.

[postul8or]

According to post 76375 it is a FAT32 issue.

Lets say I split this into 2 ISO files then. How will I get a program such as Nero to understand that I want it to put the 2 ISOs together to burn 1 DVD-R?

[Nick]

Not terribly easy, I'm afraid.

The FAT32 filesize limit is 4GB.

I see a couple of solutions to this.

1. If the muxed .mpg file in your output directory is correctly create, just use Nero's DVD Video mode to burn the authored vobs and forget the ISO. (I can walk you thru this if you aren't sure)

2. Set a lower target disc size in the Bitrate box of DVD2SVCD, say 3950, so no files exceed 4GB. As the DVDR will not be filled this is at slight loss of bitrate and therefore quality, but probably not so as you'd notice.

3. If your operating system supports NTFS, convert your drive. If it doesn't it must be Windows ME or earlier - time for an upgrade?

HTH
Nick

[postul8or]

I tried to limit the average to 7200kbps instead of 8000 and by my calculation the file should be less than 4 Gb given the length of the DVD. Perhaps I have miscalculated.

As for converting to NTFS the reason I stayed with FAT32 is that I thought performance was better. Maybe I need to revisit this again.

I'll try putting the .mpg file directly into Nero to see how it goes. If I need help I'll be back!

Thanks for the help Nick.

[smiller667]

Better use the vob files for Nero, not the muxed mpg.