I believe it\'s because even though you choose to output to 1dvd you must make sure that the output size is below 4.3 gb and you may have to specify that exactly or you will end up with 2 files. I know i saw it somewhere in the setting properties because i had the same prob but as soon as i corrected the file size...it created 1 folder.

Hope this helps.
pizzaman

Hi guys, thanks for your replys

Pizzaman - I have tried setting my dvd size as the lowest value 3850, do you think typing an even lower number will help?

Cavey - The films vary in length, from standard 90 min films to over 2 hours like you say

Sometimes I will re-encode the same movie again with the same settings it will do it correct, but its very hit or miss!!

It never used to do it so often as it does now either? very strange indeed  :S  :unsure:  :blink:

Post edited by: tommy1979, at: 2005/03/02 01:40

I have this problem as well. So many people seem to be struggling with this and yet there doesn\'t seem to be a resolution to this issue.

I recently converted a file and ended up with DISK_0 and DISK_1

The avi details were as follows;
693MB
1 hr 56 mins duration

I was using WinAVI version 5.5

Anyone got an answer?

Regards
DtM

Thanks for the quick \'delivery\' of your reply Pizzaman! I\'ve just got Version 6.3 and can now alter the settings as you suggest. Couldn\'t do it with version 5.5. I\'ll let you know tomorrow how I get on.

Cheers
DtM

Hi Guys

pizzaman - only thing ive not tried is the chapter length...will give this a go a report back my results

wish me luck lol

cheers

I am seeing the same hit-and-miss results with 6.3 on various encodes.  Sometimes it makes one folder, sometimes two.  Obviously where the encoded files will end up more than 4700 (my target DVD size) I would expect it to go to two or more disks.
But the resulting set of files in the two folders is often much lower eg. 2.5GB, 3.7GB and there is no obvious reason why the program generated two folders of DVD content.

If I redo the encode, with the same settings, it will often end up with the single folder (correctly).

It really seems like the target size algorithm is not working well at all.  When you think about some of the other encoding programs and their handling of target size (to within a few tens of MBs) WinAVI appears to have a way to go.

Most of the settings I am using are standard ones like Auto, 150 for Chapters.
I\'ll try manually setting the Aspect Ratio and PAL standard.  Take some control away from the program.

Post edited by: MrCC, at: 2005/03/18 00:20

hi all, as to the problem (alway generated two folders while you set for 1 disc), I think you also can try following ways to correct it:
On the \"DVD\" tab of the \"Advanced options\" control panel, please select the \"Constant video quality\" as the output mode, and then select lower quality as the output quality. Besides, be sure that the option \"split output size\" is selected, and let the split size as \"1013\" MB.