Error Code: -108, Not Enough Memory

[terrycts]

Toast Titanium 8.03, OS 10.4.11, 1 gig of RAM.

 

Writing to new PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112D, Dual Layer Drive.

 

Attempting to burn a DVD-ROM (UDF) using a Video TS Folder created by Mac the Ripper, Folder is 7.4 gigs.

 

Doing a search on the error code at the Toast Knowledge Base, I see it listed for earlier versions of Toast as probably a problem with the layout of the Video TS Folder.

 

Does this still hold for current versions? Have burned maybe 10 regular DVDs and 10 DL DVDs with this process without problems.

 

Larry

[terrycts]

Thanks Thomas!

 

BTW I still appreciate your help several years ago with problems using an earlier MPEG 2 conversion box, the one based on a bug-ridden Japanese application.

 

You are correct; I am using the Extract Main Feature ripping function. It nearly always works fine, but sometimes I do get the error.

 

I can use MTR's Full Disc Extraction feature, but then I have a problem. Using DVD2one, I can extract the main feature, but it always compresses the file so it will fit on a regular DVD. That is fine for me if the compression is quite low, but I want to preserve longer movies' quality; that is why I purchased the DL drive. The other issue is that I very much dislike the extra junk found on the commercial DVDs. Also, the menus are an annoyance. So I want to be able to extract only the main feature, without compression, from a Video TS folder created by MTR, and burn it to a DL DVD using Toast.

 

Is there an application that will allow me to successfully do this, avoiding Toast's occasional error message?

 

Thanks again for your help.

 

Larry

[tsantee]

If there is something missing from the VIDEO_TS folder - in other words if you ripped it using any setting other than full disc extraction - you'll get that error in Toast. If you did a full disc extraction and get that error then the ripping was not successful.

[tsantee]

Thanks Thomas!

 

BTW I still appreciate your help several years ago with problems using an earlier MPEG 2 conversion box, the one based on a bug-ridden Japanese application.

 

You are correct; I am using the Extract Main Feature ripping function. It nearly always works fine, but sometimes I do get the error.

 

I can use MTR's Full Disc Extraction feature, but then I have a problem. Using DVD2one, I can extract the main feature, but it always compresses the file so it will fit on a regular DVD. That is fine for me if the compression is quite low, but I want to preserve longer movies' quality; that is why I purchased the DL drive. The other issue is that I very much dislike the extra junk found on the commercial DVDs. Also, the menus are an annoyance. So I want to be able to extract only the main feature, without compression, from a Video TS folder created by MTR, and burn it to a DL DVD using Toast.

 

Is there an application that will allow me to successfully do this, avoiding Toast's occasional error message?

 

Thanks again for your help.

 

Larry

You can proceed differently using Toast. Place the ripped VIDEO_TS folder on the desktop. Now choose DVD video as the format in the Toast Video window (do not choose DVD-video from VIDEO_TS). Next, choose DVD with the top button in the Media Browser window. In a couple seconds something will appear in the browser. Double-click on what appears and you'll see any titles that are in the VIDEO_TS folder. Select the title you want and add it to the Video window. Toast will extract the MPEG file.

 

Now you can have Toast author a new VIDEO_TS and burn a new DVD (or create a disc image file) using that extracted MPEG file. You can set it up so there is no menu and you can choose to have only one selected audio track (if there more than one was present). To access the audio tracks select the video and click the Edit button. If multiple audio tracks are present then the Audio description becomes a button for a pop-up where you choose the one you want.

 

I recommend choosing Save as Disc Image so you can mount and preview the disc image with DVD Player to make sure everything is okay. If all is good then burn the disc image using the Image File setting in the Copy window.

[KittyLugnut]

I'm having this problem with a (legal) torrent VIDEO_TS folder. I hate to delete and download again because it will hurt my ratio at the torrent site. I've burned many DVDs from the site with no problems. There are multiple video files in the folder so I'm not really sure what to do here... I guess I don't fully understand how these files work, because they don't seem to have any relation to "chapters". I'd like to preserve the DVD as originally authored. help?

[terrycts]

You can proceed differently using Toast. Place the ripped VIDEO_TS folder on the desktop. Now choose DVD video as the format in the Toast Video window (do not choose DVD-video from VIDEO_TS). Next, choose DVD with the top button in the Media Browser window. In a couple seconds something will appear in the browser. Double-click on what appears and you'll see any titles that are in the VIDEO_TS folder. Select the title you want and add it to the Video window. Toast will extract the MPEG file.

 

Now you can have Toast author a new VIDEO_TS and burn a new DVD (or create a disc image file) using that extracted MPEG file. You can set it up so there is no menu and you can choose to have only one selected audio track (if there more than one was present). To access the audio tracks select the video and click the Edit button. If multiple audio tracks are present then the Audio description becomes a button for a pop-up where you choose the one you want.

 

I recommend choosing Save as Disc Image so you can mount and preview the disc image with DVD Player to make sure everything is okay. If all is good then burn the disc image using the Image File setting in the Copy window.

 

 

 

Thomas,

 

Thanks for this insight. I have been busy and just recently got the time and energy to try what you suggest. It works perfectly, with caveats.

 

First, my boot drive is way too crowded to accommodate a Video_TS folder on the desktop. Instead of using the DVD button in the browser, I used the File button. This worked.

 

The original Video_TS folder contains several VTS_VOB files, all of which combine to make the movie. If you import each of the files, you will get a new VTS_VOB folder with each one named identically. That is because choosing one of the files results in Toast importing all of the associated files that make up the actual movie. Thus you only need to import the VTS_01_1.VOB file and all of the other appropriate files will be imported. Otherwise you will wind up with multiple copies of the movie in the same image file.

 

Other than these two issues, which I mention here mostly to help anyone else seeking guidance, you method was flawless. I love getting a movie file stripped of BS I don't want, and yet of quite high quality. It is especially a joy to be rid of the mandatory warnings and horrible menus.

 

Thank you very much!

 

Larry

[tsantee]

I'm having this problem with a (legal) torrent VIDEO_TS folder. I hate to delete and download again because it will hurt my ratio at the torrent site. I've burned many DVDs from the site with no problems. There are multiple video files in the folder so I'm not really sure what to do here... I guess I don't fully understand how these files work, because they don't seem to have any relation to "chapters". I'd like to preserve the DVD as originally authored. help?

Don't do anything with the VIDEO_TS folder itself. I presume you are posting in this thread because you chose DVD video from VIDEO_TS as the format in the Video window and at some point received the -108 out of memory error. Are you trying to compress a dual-layer-sized VIDEO_TS to fit a single-layer disc? Have you tried the alternative approach I suggested in my previous post in this thread?