Intelli Burn

This article is about PSPV (PSProVerify) intelligent way of burning collections to any type of media. Look at the screenshot below and notice that some collections has been picked. You rightclick and choose 'Burn'

Choosing 'Burn' will take you a new dialog where you can group your collections, on this picture you can set a fill limit. This is a limit which says how much space on the DVD (as example) you want filled before you will burn it. 0% means that you do not care if you burn a DVD with just 1 byte. Choosing 70% means that atleast 70% of the free space on a DVD will be occupied by data. Once you have grouped your collections and set your fill limit percentage, you should 'Get ready to burn'

'Get ready to burn' will take you to the second tab and you can now see how filled the DVD's will be if the suggested burning will take place. Notice the red circles. Click 'Burn select Discs' to proceed with the actual burning

Let's set the fill limit to 70% and the do the process over again. Notice the change of which will be burned.

You should be able to that the grouped DVD with a fill percentage of 66.17% is NOT among the things which will actually be physically burned to DVD's.

One of the intelligent things which the burning feature in PSProVerify has is the selection of what is packed on each DVD. PSPV utilizes a algorithm called backpacking which finds the best combination of which collections to store to utilize as much freespace on the DVD or other media type, as possible. Very smart, and you use a minimum of DVD's to burn a maximum of collections.

Do not choose a large number og collections and do not set a fill-limit with a too high percentage. The algorithm can take extremely long time to finish finding the proper mix of collections to store on each piece of media.