How Much Hard Drive Space?

[Quinum]

I'm getting nowhere fast. When I try to use the program it complains I might not have enough space. I left 7 gig on the output drive. It's not trying to use C: for temp files is it? I tried it anyway and 4 hours later I end up with nothing.

[The-poacher]

u need more i have at least 20GB:

[Quinum]

I'm curious to know why? With quite a bit of burning work I might be able to make that much space. Just trying to increase my knowledge.

[The-poacher]

Most conversion proggies make loadsa temp & other files some GB's big u just need the space.

[Quinum]

OK thanks. I'll give it a try.

[The_Mask]

If you select the option "Delete temporary files" in the options menu you must have 10 gb of free space.

[Quinum]

Had a try and ended up with a 45 meg file. Maybe 'cause I'm using fat32. Just a suggestion. Info like hard drive space and file system needed would be handy to have in the instructions on the website. Might save people asking these questions here.

[VIPER_1069]

to do any real good with dvd compilations you need NTFS file structure as this can handle 4gb dvd files much easier

[The-poacher]

have a look at DVD_Tips_for_beginners

[Quinum]

Thanks. I didn't know any of that. Is there any software that will let me change from fat32 to ntfs without having to remove my 15 gig of files first?

[VIPER_1069]

back them all up to 4 dvdrs as data dvds you should be at least able to do that with fat32 and a dvd burner

as for windows u may need to just loose that to install XP or WINDOWS 2000

[Quinum]

I'm already using XP. I was hoping to be able to convert file systems without having to burn everything off first. Oh well I guess I had to back it all up sometime.

[The-poacher]

Q: Is it possible to convert a FAT32 Hard Drive to NTFS without losing all data on the drive? I like to change from FAT32 to NTFS, my operating system is Windows XP PRO, how can I do that? Without the lost of my programs?

A: Standard Windows utility that is called CONVERT serves this purpose

Just go to the Command Prompt and execute the command: C:\> CONVERT C: /fs:ntfs

Where C: is a name of the drive you want to convert. After machine re-boot conversion process will start and you'll have your FAT32 converted to NTFS without of data loss.

also look here

[scarecrow]

You'd better use some third party program like Partition Commander or Partition magic to convert to NTFS, as the windows "convert" format will leave you with an NTFS system using 512 bytes clustersize, which is very small and will slow down things ( 4 KB or 8 KB is much better). Unfortunately there's no freeware tool which can convert to NTFS on-the-fly AND controlling the clustersize.

[Quinum]

I didn't see those messages before I went ahead and formatted the partition using format in Explorer. I did the ASPI thing and believe it or not it was worse this time, Instead of a 45 meg VOB file I got one that's a whole 52k. Who'd have thought that something that seems so simple would be so complicated. Below is my log file.

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- 2/11/2004 12:43:09 PM
- AVI to DVD conversion
- The FilmMachine version 1.3
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Initializing.
Initializing finished.

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- 2/11/2004 12:43:11 PM
- Free on drive I: 29.93 GB
- Audio Extraction
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Extracting audio from AVI file
Audio extraction finished.

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- 2/11/2004 12:43:49 PM
- Free on drive I: 29.84 GB
- Audio Conversion
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Executing BeSweet DLL. Commandline:
-azid( -L -3db -c normal -s surround2 -g max ) -ota( -fs 48000 -r 960 1001 ) -shibatch( --rate 48000 ) -ac3enc( -b 224 )
Audio conversion finished.


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- 2/11/2004 12:52:06 PM
- Free on drive I: 29.78 GB
- Video Encoding using QuEnc by Nic version 0.54
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Executing QuEnc.

Encoding finished

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- 2/11/2004 4:42:34 PM
- Free on drive I: 29.78 GB
- Creating DVD compliant files
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Mplex is multiplexing the video and audio stream.....
mplex version 2.0.0 (2.2.3 $Date: 2004/01/13 20:45:26 $)
Multiplexing finished.

Encoding Background jpeg.
INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Parsing & checking input files.
INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Image dimensions are 720x576
INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Movie frame rate is: 25.000000 frames/second
INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Interlaced frames, top field first.
INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Frame size: 720 x 576
INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Now generating YUV4MPEG stream.
INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Processing non-interlaced/interleaved I:/Movies/TFM_Background.jpg, size 85774l.
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Selecting DVD output profile
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Assuming norm PAL
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Encoding MPEG-2 video to I:/Movies/TFM_Background.m2v
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Horizontal size: 720 pel
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Vertical size: 576 pel
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Aspect ratio code: 3 = 16:9 display
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame rate code: 3 = 25.0 (PAL/SECAM VIDEO / converted FILM)
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Bitrate: 7500 KBit/s
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Quality factor: 8 (1=best, 31=worst)
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Field order for input: top-field-first
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Sequence unlimited length
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Search radius: 16
INFO: [mpeg2enc] GOP SIZE RANGE 9 TO 15
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Setting colour/gamma parameters to "PAL B/G"
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Progressive format frames = 0
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Buffering 39 frames
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING MMX and EXTENDED MMX for QUANTIZER!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING EXTENDED MMX for MOTION!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING MMX for TRANSFORM!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING EXTENDED MMX for PREDICTION!
INFO: [mpeg2enc] GOP LENGTH = 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame start 0 I 0 0
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame end 0 151.49 151.49 10.9 10.85
INFO: [mpeg2enc] GOP LENGTH = 0
Encoding Background jpeg finished.

Multiplexing Background jpeg.
mplex version 2.0.0 (2.2.3 $Date: 2004/01/13 20:45:26 $)
File I:\Movies\TFM_Background.m2v looks like an MPEG Video stream.
Video stream 0: profile 8 selected - ignoring non-standard options!
Found 0 audio streams and 1 video streams
Selecting dvdauthor DVD output profile
Multiplexing video program stream!
Scanning for header info: Video stream e0 (I:\Movies\TFM_Background.m2v)
VIDEO STREAM: e0
Frame width : 720
Frame height : 576
Aspect ratio : 16:9 display
Picture rate : 25.000 frames/sec
Bit rate : 7500000 bits/sec
Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes
CSPF : 0
SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream:
rough-guess multiplexed stream data rate : 7655000
target data-rate specified : 10080000
Setting specified specified data rate: 10080000
Scanned to end AU 0
Run-in Sectors = 88 Video delay = 12873 Audio delay = 0
New sequence commences...
Video e0: buf= 237568 frame=000000 sector=00000000
STREAM e0 completed @ frame 0.
Multiplex completion at SCR=3510.
Video e0: buf= 192612 frame=000000 sector=00000023
VIDEO_STATISTICS: e0
Video Stream length: 44956 bytes
Sequence headers: 1
Sequence ends : 1
No. Pictures : 0
No. Groups : 1
No. I Frames : 1 avg. size 44956 bytes
No. P Frames : 0 avg. size 0 bytes
No. B Frames : 0 avg. size 0 bytes
Average bit-rate : 8991200 bits/sec
Peak bit-rate : 0 bits/sec
BUFFERING stream too short for useful statistics
MUX STATUS: no under-runs detected.
Multiplexing Background jpeg finished.

Spumux is creating the DVD menu.....
Processed 0 subtitles.
The longest display line had -1 characters.
The maximum number of displayed lines was 0.
The normal display height of the font arial.ttf was 0.
The bottom display height of the font arial.ttf was 0.
The biggest subtitle box had 278 bytes.
Creating DVD menu finished.

DVDAuthor is writing the VOB files.....
Locale=C
Converting filenames to US-ASCII
dvdauthor creating VTS
Video pts = 0.183 .. 0.223
Audio[32] pts = 0.183 .. 0.183
Generating VTSM with the following video attributes:
MPEG version: mpeg2
TV standard: pal
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Resolution: 720x576
Writing VOB files finished.

Finished authoring DVD

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- 2/11/2004 4:43:08 PM
- Free on drive I: 29.93 GB
- DVD creation finished!
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