Reauthorist creates too big a movie?

[surreal120]

Reauthorist - in the upper-right hand corner of the window - shows my project's muxed data size plus the size of the video_ts data and the total. I chose the recommended size in the reauthorist settings and used auto-size to select the right bitrate for my video.

Everything's all done now and reauthored, but now I have a movie which is 4.65 GB! Nero will not burn this. I just spent countless hours re-encoding and re-authoring my video so I'm hoping it wasn't for nothing. Does reauthorist make the video too big? Or will this really fit on a DVD+R somehow (with different settings for nero/different burning software)?

I really appreciate any help!

[BinaryBin]

Its not going to fit, You can try to find something to rip out to save space and make it fit, like intro videos, those warnings before the movies, ussually, taking those out will save you enough space to put it on a dvdr.

I've only tried reauthorist with 2 movies using auto-size, and both times, the finished project came out a few megs over a dvdr's capacity, thankfully, with the intro videos cut out, it then fit perfectly.

This can also be my fault, as in the settings, for the DVD Max size setting, i set it to 4700000000 bytes, which should Still be a safe number, but in both cases, it wasn't.

So, do you have that max dvd setting on its default which is lower then that 4700000000 bytes, or you pushing that number up.

[surreal120]

I have the max settings on its default 46800000... which is why I don't get it. Does reauthorist just report the wrong size? Should I ignore what reauthorist says and go for around ~4.36 GB? This is really aggravating!

(BTW, I already stripped out the extras, fbi warnings, etc. so no luck there... but one interesting thing: When I open the ifo file for my main movie VTS in IfoEdit, it still shows all the original audio tracks and subtitle languages, even though most of them have been stripped out with DIF4U. Is that normal?)

[BinaryBin]

yes its normal, thats what ifoupdate did, it copied over that info to the new .ifo files. its just dvd structure, it doesn't tell you if the actual data files are there or not. what movie was this anyways? also, how many passes did you do? who knows what went wrong. Anybody else have reauthorist projects not fit on a dvdr?

[int 21h]

I have experienced a couple DVDs that did not fit correctly. I wonder if using a different method of encoding (i.e. regular CCE multi-pass) instead of the RobShot method would have any effect.

[surreal120]

I think I've got something: Reauthorist set the bitrate for my main movie at around 3600 Kb/s. However, I ran the m2v file that CCE created through bitrateviewer and ReMPEG2 and got significantly higher numbers. The former reported an avg bitrate of 4828 (Kb/s?) and the latter said 4100000 bits/s.

Either way, this is higher than it should be and probably explains why my movie is too big. If anyone here has some suggestions or has experienced this before please let me know! Since this seems like a problem with CCE and not reauthorist, I'm going to post on the CCE board as well.

[surreal120]

I think the issue I'm having is the same as 3S Doc in this post:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=55708

I thought that the large (4+ GB) m2v file I had was the encoded movie, but it must have been the original video stream stripped out from DIF4U. DC4U must have screwed up the mpv file from CCE, since that is only 0KB. Anyway, thanks for the help!

[brashquido]

I had an oversized project the other day (Time Machine from memory). What I noticed was that the project was oversized by the exact size of the VIDEO_TS folder which was 25MB. I just re-encoded and set RA to encode the movie to come out at 30mb smaller and it was fine. That's the advantage in having a dedicated encoding machine I spose.

[brashquido]

Just had another movie come out oversized using the auto-size feature of RA :confused: . The project was Changing Lanes (PAL R4) and the VIDEO_TS folder size was 231MB, and the program came out 44MB oversized. Problem isn't really a big issue, as you just re-encode and set the movie VTS size by subtracting the amount you were over by (plus 5 or so MB to be sure) so you get the correct size. Just weird however as the auto-size feature of RA is great, and up until these few projects has been ultra accurate and reliable.

[tao52]

I to have had a movie come out just over the limit except mine was a mere 8 MB over the 4.37GB limit. I am going to try this project again from the start and see what happens. I am trying to do the movie Bubble Boy, region 1 widescreen, complete backup.

[Ripe73]

hi!
my 4 latest RA project have been oversized with the"4680000000 bytes (recommended)" setting
the latest was Red Dragon with all subs,audio and reencoding of one VTS with one PGC
the finalsize was 4,39 GB (4_714_866_688 byte)
Doitfast4u's ccedata average bitrate 3723
and RA's 3770..
I never have oversized movie's before with RA:)
anyway keep up the good work

[1977]

Hi guys,

It seems I am experiencing the same problems. Most of my latest rips have been too big to fit on a DVD too.

As far as I can remember, the only thing i changed was to use a new version of DIF4U. I tried 1.1.1.4 through 1.1.16 now. Had no troubles at all with 1.1.1.1.

Did you guys possibly upgrade up from DIFU 1.1.1.1 too? I am just curious which of the big 3 is causing the troubles.