Re: [SLUG] DVD media size

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Tue May 02 2006 - 16:28:28 EDT


On Tue, 2 May 2006, Bob Stia wrote:

> 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.  

Problem: DVDs use the "HD vendor" definition of GB, 10^9 B, whereas ls and
friends use the "everywhere else in computers" definition of GB, 2^30 B.
4.7 * 10^9 B = 4.38 * 2^30 B. And 4.5 > 4.38. Did you take that into
account?

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