mini-dvd
Two questions really. Is it possible to burn to a mini-dvd, the kind that go into a handycam camera? Things things are marked dvd-r/30 min/1.4 gb. Can you burn a cd iso to a dvd? That is, is there any difference in the format? I'm thinking it'd be kinda neat to burn a full gnoppix cd to a mini dvd. -- Until later, Geoffrey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi, Two questions really. Is it possible to burn to a mini-dvd, the kind that go into a handycam camera? Things things are marked dvd-r/30 min/1.4 gb. Interesting question. How does that work mechanically ? A special drive ? An adapter frame for a normal drive ? Can you burn a cd iso to a dvd? That is, is there any difference in the format? I'm thinking it'd be kinda neat to burn a full gnoppix cd to a mini dvd. At least there is no difference between CD and normal sized DVD. I use the same mkisofs commands for both. I can copy a CD to DVD+/- by a command like dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2k | growisofs -Z /dev/scd0=/proc/self/fd/0 (modulo cruel effects on your IDE if both drives share a controller) Similar can be done with cdrecord-ProDVD , of course. That DVD will be mountable and show the same ISO tree as the CD. I did not try this with bootable CDs, though. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Two questions really. Is it possible to burn to a mini-dvd, the kind that go into a handycam camera? Things things are marked dvd-r/30 min/1.4 gb. Interesting question. How does that work mechanically ? A special drive ? An adapter frame for a normal drive ? Most drives, including all three of my dvd burners have a recessed area where a small disk of this size will fit. I've burned the mini cds on these drives, so I was hoping the mini-dvds would work as well. -- Until later, Geoffrey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Two questions really. Is it possible to burn to a mini-dvd, the kind that go into a handycam camera? Things things are marked dvd-r/30 min/1.4 gb. I haven't tried, but with mini CD-R the only difference to CD-R is that the capacity is lower. The last lot of business card-sized mini CD-R I got were obviously just cut-down normal CD-R, as the ATIP info recorded on them still said 650MB... There should be no difference for mini DVD-R either. The laser runs out of burnable surface earlier, that's about it. Can you burn a cd iso to a dvd? Yes. That is, is there any difference in the format? No. Both simply are block devices, like your hard disk. However, unlike your harddisk, random read/write access isn't quite as good or fast. I'm thinking it'd be kinda neat to burn a full gnoppix cd to a mini dvd. Good idea, though consider that if you're doing it for maximum compatibility with any other computer you might come across, you will then need a dvdrom drive, and a drive which can read mini (do they all?). Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Two questions really. Is it possible to burn to a mini-dvd, the kind that go into a handycam camera? Things things are marked dvd-r/30 min/1.4 gb. I haven't tried, but with mini CD-R the only difference to CD-R is that the capacity is lower. The last lot of business card-sized mini CD-R I got were obviously just cut-down normal CD-R, as the ATIP info recorded on them still said 650MB... There should be no difference for mini DVD-R either. The laser runs out of burnable surface earlier, that's about it. It does work, just tried it. snip I'm thinking it'd be kinda neat to burn a full gnoppix cd to a mini dvd. Good idea, though consider that if you're doing it for maximum compatibility with any other computer you might come across, you will then need a dvdrom drive, and a drive which can read mini (do they all?). Most newer boxes these days do. I just bought a pretty low end laptop and it has one. Anyway, I did successfully burn a cd iso of gnoppix to this mini dvd-r and my laptop booted off it fine. -- Until later, Geoffrey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
