Help me make it fit!

[princess]

OK, prefacing the following issue with admitting that I'm a low-life loser that knows just enough about this stuff to be a pain in the a** and probably am missing some totally obvious solution to this, yet despite my best efforts to resolve it on my own and research hundreds of posts on here I'm forced to admit my ignorance and ask for your help. That said, here's my drama in brief:

 

Decrypted and have file saved to hard drive which has total file size of 7,338,014,720 bytes; this was media that was 145 mins long and when I did the 'calculate' after inserting my blank 120 min DVD-R disc it obviously indicated I didn't have enough room. Duh.

 

To Circuit City I go, purchasing 4.7GB single sided 8x compatible DVD-R with recording time up to 6 hrs. in EP mode. I replace the aforementioned 120 min disc with this newly purchased one, and again it continues to indicate there's not enough room for the media to be burned onto it. I've tried changing the parameters from the tabs but it continues to say the same thing without any apparent change for the better.

 

Clearly, I'm doing something wrong or leaving something out. 2 hrs. worth of messing with it and researching it on the help forums have left me at square one. I'm sure the answer is so simple I'll want to slap myself for going through the registration and posting of this, but I'm at my wits end and out of cigs so... yeah.. HELP ME PLEASE!!

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Forget the whole 2hr / 6hr thing, it's rubbish.

 

All you need to know is that you can fit 4.37GB of data on a DVD-R / DVD+R disc and ~8.5GB on a DVD-R DL / DVD+R DL disc.

 

If you don't want to buy double layer (DL) discs for the stuff you're burning you will need to 'shrink' it.

 

I'm not going to tell you how to do that because Google is more than capable.

[Handler]

Both discs, the one you started with and the one you later purchased at Circuit City, are both DVD5 discs. Recording times/modes such as 2 Hrs/SP and 6 Hrs/EP that are printed on the package are used to give an idea of time vs quality when the disc is used in such devices as a DVD Recorder (a STB type of device which can be directly hooked up to a cable box or satellite receiver which records the analog out to DVD). In other words, a DVD5 is a DVD5 and by changing the Bit-Rate quality (SP or EP) from the DVD Recorder's menu do those times become important. So, the recording time on the DVD package is irrelevant for what you are doing.

 

You have a Title Set which is 7,338,014,720 bytes (6.83 GB) and both of your DVD-R media have a maximum capacity of 4,707,319,808 bytes (4.38 GB). So, something else has to change.

 

You could re-encode the Title Set. You could remove items which are expendable from the Title Set. You could purchase DVD9 media which has a maximum capacity of 8,547,991,552 bytes (7.96 GB). Each of these have their own pros and cons.

 

For example, re-encoding the Title Set and/or removing expendable items can be a time consuming venture, but, with the right software you can get your project to fit onto a single DVD5. Using DVD9 media or Verbatim DVD+R Dual Layer disc (#95166) is more expensive and requires a burner with +R Dual Layer burning capability, but you don't have to re-encode and/or remove expendable items to "shrink" it to fit.

 

How you proceed from here is up to you. Good luck.