Posted by Tim Born on 11/15/25 11:33

Biz -

Good advice. Poking around I found a (really well hidden) option in
Ulead Movie Factory 3 SE. On the final screen, if you uncheck 'Record
to disc', other options that were not there appear (not grayed out, just
not there), one of which is 'Create disc image file'.

I was able to create an oversize ISO and shrink it with DVD Shrink.
Just when I was about to burn the ISO with CDBurnerXP Pro 3, my machine
started acting up. Upon reboot, the boot sector is scrambled again.
That hasn't happened since September. So I took about a 24-hour detour
to recover the machine.

I'm back now, but my Pioneer DVD burner is acting very strange. Lots of
error messages and oddities like reporting that it has erased DVDs, but
they don't actually get erased, and complaining that empty DVDs are not
really blank and claiming to have burned entire DVDs in less than 2 minutes.

The Pioneer DVD is just over a year old, so probably out of warranty. :-(

Anyway, your advice seems sound, I just can't prove it until I get my
DVD burner working or replaced.

Thanks for your help.

-tim

(Does anybody do DVD editing & burning on Linux? I would love to have
some stability under me.)

Biz wrote:
> Author your dvd project to your hard drive, which will create the complete
> structure including VOB's and ifos, etc...so there is no size restriction,
> then run it through DVD shrink. If your current DVD authoring package
> doesnt allow it, change packages cos its junk if it doesnt allow it...
> "Tim Born" <timborn@lucent.com> wrote in message
> news:438E4A2C.6090807@lucent.com...
>
>>I fiddled with the settings on my Hauppage PVR, changing it from "DVD
>>long play" to "DVD standard". I noticed the resulting .mpg file was
>>bigger than normal.
>>
>>Edited out the commercials and fire up Ulead Movie Factory 3 SE to burn
>>the DVD only to discover it's too big to fit.
>>
>>Got a copy of DVD Shrink, but it only wants to play with real DVDs or
>>.vobs and such.
>>
>>Read the dvdfaq. Read the last 286 posts to rec.video.dvd.tech. Still
>>stuck.
>>
>>Is there a way to salvage my movie and make it fit or am I stuck with a
>>two DVD movie because I monkeyed with the original settings?
>>
>>thanks,
>>-tim
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