Im getting a big problem here in spruce up. I import the m2v and the ac3. And it says the movie is the right size.. but when i scan using clip properties it not.. FOr instance. I ripped bandits.. Its was a bit over 2 hours. But when i scanned it only scanned to an hour and a hlaf. I even simulated it and it stopped at that point. Has anyone else ran into this problem before.

hen1040

I have the same problem with panic room. I dont know why but it wont let you go past a certain amount of time. I hope someone knows how to fix this. It could be a settings issue but I don't know yet.

I also had this problem with bandits and spruce up, only it stopped at a little under 2 hours. I'll retry the whole precess from the begining and see what i can get

I have the same problem as well. Different movie though. It's 2.28 but stops at 1.54

I've tried rippnig three times, still same problem, it must be something to do with spruce

The same thing happened the second time. Can anyone figure this out, I have a ntfs file system, so i know that cant have anything to do with it. Thanks

It's because spruce up wont allow more than just under 4 gigs of video file. When ripping from an original dvd, u will only be able to get about 1 hour and 27 minutes worth of video. the only alternative is to either split the film over two DVD-rs or downsample the bit rate of the m2v file that u ripped in either tmpeg (Sometimes it works, some times not) or BBMPREG (takes like 20 hours). The simplest way to do things is to download the movie u want in divx format or svcd\vcd format and convert to mpeg2 in tmpeg, this is what I do, there may be a slight loss in quality but hey itz still way better than vhs and u can fit more than one film on the DVD approx 4 hours of video with a constant bit rate (CBR) of 300.

Hope this helps,

Tal

I did it ok. Ripped and resized with DVD2AVI and TMPGenc and SPruce Up authored it and it played back perfectly.

does ayone know of a way where this option on spruce can be turned off?

Does anyone know a way where spruce can import the whole movie with out reecoding or splitting the movie, By my calculations the movie will still fit on a disk if only spruce would import all the video and audio.

if nobody knows a solution to this, can someone suggest some similer authoring software that doesnt have this limitation?

I had a similar problem but it was with TMPGEnc.

I ripped 2 movies so I had the m2v & ac3 files but TMPGEnc would not encode the whole film. I played the un-encoded movies in Power DVD and they were all there. It's the first time I have tried it this way and it will be the last. (unless someone knows the solution)

I will stick to the DVDDecrypter - DVD2AVI - TMPGEnc - Spruce method.