On Tuesday 02 May 2006 16:17, steve szmidt wrote:
> 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.
OK, so there is a difference between manufacturers. Wonder how you determine
that. Printed on the DVD is 4.7GB
Bob S.
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