DVD trouble :P

[kacation_man]

Im trying to burn about 4.5 gigs to a dvd, the top of the dvd says its hold 4.7 gigs. This is fairly common. However Windows ( vista ick, uninstalling this week ) says the disk only hold 4.3 and i cant burn the every thing to the disk

any ideas whys and / or a fix?

 

[kineaesth]

Yeah, you need to buy a dvd rewinder.

http://www.dvguru.com/2006/10/03/the-dvd-rewinder/

 

[Sanada]

It saying it can only hold 4.3GB is correct for a 4.7GB disc. It's the same sort of thing you get with HDD because of how the manufacturers measure the capacity.

4700000000/(1024*(1024*1024)) = 4.377216

http://svp.co.uk/helpdesk/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=102&nav=0

 

[Que-Ever]

Yeah, you need to buy a dvd rewinder.

http://www.dvguru.com/2006/10/03/the-dvd-rewinder/

exactly what I was going to say.

 

[Asus]

Yep, it's the same size but just calculated differently. If your PC measured the files you wanted to put on the DVD in decimal form (base ten), the same way the 4.7GB disc was calculated, then each file would show to be bigger in size. E.g. if windows says your movie file is 500MB by using binary measurement then in decimal form it would be 524MB.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte

 

[Emporius]

Yeah, you need to buy a dvd rewinder.

http://www.dvguru.com/2006/10/03/the-dvd-rewinder/

Beat me to it

 

[Vegeta897]

Too many in this thread.

 

[VirusType2]

also this might be of interest

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD+R

DVD-R and DVD+R hold different amounts

the book setting makes it more reliable, but when copying a [single layer] DVD movie, for example, you may not be able to get it to fit without software compressing it to 99% quality.

 

[kacation_man]

this is kinda what i figured... ok thanks for hte responses

 

[Druckles]

Also like to expand on what has already said. The 4.7GB is correct; it is literally 4.7 billion bytes. Windows is also correct, but it should be recorded as "GiB", which would be 4.3 lots of 1024x1024x1024. It mentions this in the wiki article Asus linked in.