DVD overburning

[JohnnyFiama]

Hi,
I have 8 CDs that I'd like to put onto 1 DVD. I have put the CDs on my hard drive (as ISOs, which I want them as - 8 ISOs on the DVD, then I'll just use D-Tools to mount them later), and it's 2MB over what a DVD-R can fit!!! So, using Nero, I have no clue how to tell it to overburn a DVD - it seems to only have an option for overburning a CD (telling it more than 80 min).

Could someone please tell me how I can burn it onto 1 DVD (ie: how to overburn the DVD)

Thanks

[DiablosuX102]

i don't *think* u can overburn a dvd. what about compressing them to zip/rar? or maybe just 1 of them.

josh

[offline]

You might want to look at a commercial application to compress
your iso's. I believe Virtual CD can do it, as can a few others. D-tools
is a great freeware app but for what you want, a compressed image
will suprisingly load faster as well as enable you to fit more cd images per DVD.

If you have the $$, a multi cd/DVD reader can be had for a few
hundred dollars although if you need speed - nothing beats a
large HDD (DVD iso storage is slower even than CD btw)

You cannot overburn a DVD 5 +/- R/RW yet!

[duhmez]

If you have an LG 4020b, or LG 4040B dvd burner, you can use DVD-ram disks with NTFS format then use basic NTFS compression on one of the files.

[§kipTracer65]

i usually store my bin and cue (s)vcd images on dvds, as i cant watch them in that state any way i use winRar on them to compress them slightly

[JohnnyFiama]

Thanks everyone....surprising how there's no way to overburn the damn DVDs yet....it' be very convenient to burn the damn 2 MB out of the 4389MB that a DVD-R can fit (0.046% of the damn DVD) by overburning and not worrying about compressing and stuff.

But thanks for the advice - I'll look into VirtualCD.

[JohnnyFiama]

Looked into VirtualCD and it doesn't make things smaller. It has it's own format for writing image files which are bigger than ISOs, so when you put on compression, it compresses it's own format (it's not like compressing an ISO), which still doesn't result in a smaller image file than an ISO (even with the highest compression level - level 4 compression).

Just thought I'd like to mention that so people don't waste their time with it.