Re: [SLUG] DVD media size

From: steve szmidt (steve@szmidt.org)
Date: Tue May 02 2006 - 16:17:25 EDT


On Tuesday 02 May 2006 15:35, Bob Stia wrote:
> Hello Sluggers
>
> Trying to burn a movie that I ripped and rebuilt with dvdauthor to a DVD +R
> disk. The file size is reported to be 4.5 gig which should easily fit.  
> growisofs complains with the following:
>
> INFO:   UTF-8 character encoding detected by locale settings.
>         Assuming UTF-8 encoded filenames on source filesystem,
>         use -input-charset to override.
>
> :-( /dev/dvdrecorder: 2295104 blocks are free, 2383008 to be written
> :-( write failed: No space left on device
>
> bob@EasyStreet:/datastorage>
>
> How does one determine gigs to blocks??  Are some media manufacturers
> incorrect with the stated capacity?

Hard drive manufacturers use 1000M to be a GB, google for dvd's.

You have to see what the size of the block is. It is different on different
media.

-- 

Steve Szmidt

"To enjoy the right of political self-government, men must be capable of personal self-government - the virtue of self-control. A people without decency cannot be secure in its liberty. From the Declaration Principles

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