Hello mjpeg users, Yes this is OT but I figured the people on this list would easily know the answer and wanted your opinions on what I have found/been told.
Recently ripped and shrank a DVD and rebuilt it with mplex. Final size was 4.5GB. growisofs then complained it would not fit on the DVD+R as it had too many "blocks". In all of the how-to's whatever, it is stated that if the file is kept under 4.7GB it will be OK. Is that true or not? I posed this same question to my local LUG and was told that a file had to be 4.38GB or less to fit on the DVD. I am almost positive that in the past I have burned files larger than that on another manufacturer's disks. Here is a short excerpt as a result of that inquiry. ------------------------------------------------------------ "DVD manufacturers use decimal (base 10) rather than binary (base 2) so a 4.7GB advertised DVD will hold 4.7 GB of data...however your program probably states binary and not decimal so in reality it holds 4.38 GB - GENERALLY SPEAKING. All writeable DVD formats use 2048 bytes per sector, most state the number of sectors available. However, the available sectors available to "data" vary by manufacturer...DVD+R should have 2, 295,072 sectors. Which rounds to 4.7GB (in decimal notation) using spec version 1.2. Another factor - defect management - but we'll leave that for another day." ------------------------------------------------------------------ Soooo....Is the reality that I have to shoot for under 4.38GB or 4.7GB?? Bob S. ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list Mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
