Can you really put 990MB onto a 99 min cdr ?

[odan]

Can you really put 990MB onto a 99 min cdr ?

[snowmoon]

If your burner supports it, YES.

[Craig Tucker]

If you want to play it on a standalone DVD player, you may find that it won't play the full 99mins. I can burn 92min with my burner, but my pioneer DVD player will only read the first 88 mins.

Craig

[jkl]

i wouldn't put any more than 985mb max. but i suggest kepping it at about 950mb. also i would try to keep the length of the video to no more than 60 minutes.

i like 99 min cdr for the ability to use "higher bitrates" not to put "longer video" on it.

[dazed&confused]

Guys, I have a question that pertains to this thread, so I thought I'd chime in and ask rather than starting a new one altogether.

I have seen 2 kinds of 99min cdr's being sold: some listed as having 850MB(CompUSA brand says this), and others listed as 870MB(some Riteks, etc). Can you fit 99 minutes of mode2 data onto both of these, or only the brands marked 870MB? Knowing that a person can fit approximately 800MB of mode2 data onto a 700MB 80min cdr, when I do some simple algebra, it seems like you'd only be able to fit ~971MB onto a 850MB 99min cdr, right? I'm pretty new to this vcd stuff, but I have tried searching the forums for some answers, and couldn't find anyone asking or answering this exact question before. So when newbies ask, "can I fit 990MB onto a 99min cdr?", shouldn't the answer they receive actually depend on which of the 2 kinds of cdr's out there that are labelled as 99min that they are using? Or do the CompUSA discs labelled as 850MB actually contain 870MB of room on them like most other brand 99min cdr's being sold, but are just labelled slightly lower for some reason? It's just a bit confusing to me that they both say 99min on them when one is labelled 20MB larger than the other. Thanks in advance for any insight.

[linuxking]

I would like to 'chime' in also.

In reviewing numerous web pages, I thought I read a page on overburning a 700MB CD. Using the mode2 format and overburning, you could burn about 900MB of video info on a CD - is that correct? I use the program CDRWin and it has a RAW format you can select when burning.

Like you-all, I'm trying to figure how much I can 'safely' fit on a CD - in my case, a 700MB CD.

[thxkid]

well I have used about 100 of the compusa brand of 99min. CD-R's and just from using them I would not put more than 950 MB or about 95min. on one, specially if you ever want to get that .dat file ever off again , I have actually put 1 gig on one at 98min. 58 seconds, and my burner burned it, but I had some problems with that disc some times skipping towards the last 1-2 minutes of the disc, so now I hold them under 950 MB and at around 95-96 minutes and they seem to work fine all the time.

[vitualis]

I would like to 'chime' in also.

In reviewing numerous web pages, I thought I read a page on overburning a 700MB CD. Using the mode2 format and overburning, you could burn about 900MB of video info on a CD - is that correct? I use the program CDRWin and it has a RAW format you can select when burning.

Like you-all, I'm trying to figure how much I can 'safely' fit on a CD - in my case, a 700MB CD.

No.

For S/VCDs where the mpeg track is burnt in MODE2 Form2 sectors, if you have only one mpeg and use the minimal overhead, you can fit about 796 MB without overburning the disc.

How much you can overburn will depend on the actual disc but I don't think you should expect more than about 1 minute (i.e., 10 MB) unless you've previous tested the media.

Regards.

[dazed&confused]

Thanks thxkid for the info. Since you were able to burn about a Gigabyte onto one once, then I guess I will just work under the general assumption that the 99min 850MB CompUSA brand cdr's are probably actually about the same in terms of overburnability(wow, haven't used that word before!) as the other brand 99min cdr's I've seen that are listed at 870MB. Maybe CompUSA has them labelled slightly lower at 850MB instead of 870MB in an attempt to help prevent angry customers who have burned error-prone discs with the kind of skipping problems you encountered during the final 1-2 minutes of your disc? Whatever the case, it's helpful stuff to know. I'll follow your recommendation on the 95-96 minute limit, although I'm sure I'll be tempted to try squeezing a Gig onto one of these cdr's at least once somewhere down the line. Thanks again.

[letgoofmyears]

I've actually posted this question in another topic, but since this topic also deals with it, I'll post it here, too. Can someone pleeez, pretty please tell me how to fit that much onto a single 700 mb disk? I've tried several times, using the latest Nero, but I get a bad burn every time. I've been making XsVCDs for a while now, and asking this question is definitely pushing me back to noob status, but I would really like to know. I've seen guides where guys are getting much higher bitrates than I've ever gotten.

Now, when I burn with Nero, it shows the file size to be ~800 MBs, but the actual file size is always ~700 MB. If this is what you're describing, then it's slightly misleading. Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.