----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Stia" <rnr@sanctum.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 3:35 PM
Subject: [SLUG] DVD media size
> 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?
>
> Bob S
>
Always thought the limit on dvd's was 4.36 gigs.
JamesS
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