Not Enough Free Space No Matter What I Do

[guartho]

I'm using Toast 9 to burn a Blu-ray disc. Every time I get the message "There's not enough free space on this disc: 25.35 GB are needed, 22.56 are available."

 

Here's the head-scratcher. I've adjusted my content average bit rate and maximum bit rate several times to get the size down and have set re-encoding to always. The built-in estimator says I'm down to 18.85 GB for my content, but that doesn't seem to matter. When I tried to fill up the disk at just under 25 GB I got the message that I needed 25.35. When I tried to get just under 22.56 I got the message that I needed 25.35 etc etc etc.

 

Why does it continue to insist on 25.35 GB and how do I break the cycle?

 

I've tried creating a new project file from the ground-up.

 

I'm encoding Mpeg-4 AVC from a photojpg master file. Short test burns have gone fine.

[John at Roxio]

This is sort of like burning a DVD, accept that Blu-ray discs hold much more content. I remember back when I was burning a 4.7GB DVD and I was converting the video from a dual layer source disc. I was told I would need 16GB to complete the operation, and that was simply for a 4.7GB disc. I imagine some extra space above and beyond the data being copied to the disc is needed. I don't personally have a Blu-ray burner though so I haven't played around with the various sizes yet to know how much space is a good amount to have available. I can tell you this though, there is no way to work around it, just free up however much space it says you need.

[guartho]

That's the thing though. It always says I need 25.35, no matter how much or little space I free up.

[gesplus]

That's the thing though. It always says I need 25.35, no matter how much or little space I free up.

You do know John is talking about freeing up hard drive space, right? Not using less DVD space.

[John at Roxio]

You do know John is talking about freeing up hard drive space, right? Not using less DVD space.

 

Exactly. Until you have that much free space on your hard drive, you will get the same message.