DVD Shrink. media size to burn

[Beautiful Alone]

I just compress a DVD movie with dvdshrink at 4,313mb. That shoud fit on to a DVD-R right? what is the exact capacity of a DVD-R disc?

[jimmalenko]

In DVDShrink, as long as the indicator bar is still in the green section you will be OK. I believe it is stated in the What is DVDR section to my left that the full capacity is 4.38GB.

[Beautiful Alone]

My DVD-RW use to display the capacity of a blank media, but now it doesn't. A blank media was around 4.3 gig, not sure the exact amout.

[jimmalenko]

Shrink to the rescue !

[Beautiful Alone]

it's 4,431mb and it's still green.

[DiablosuX102]

4.3 gigs is not 4,300 megs, there's 1024 MB's in a GB, not 1000

hope this helps, josh

[SanderMan]

I set the output size to 4478mb. Fits every time.

[ddlooping]

Beautiful Alone, here are some figures that might be of interest.

Blank DVD-R 4,489MB 4,706,074,624 bytes or 4.383GB
Blank DVD+R 4,483MB 4,700,372,992 bytes or 4.377GB

[azalin1975]

1024MB is indeed 1GB and not 1000 ... UNLESS you are talking about DVD discs. Computer bytes are not the same as DVD bytes, check the forum and you'll see what I mean.

[mats.hogberg]

Computer bytes are not the same as DVD bytes

Oh yes, they are! But kilo, mega and giga isn't!

/Mats

[dazz87]

under custom i have 4,474 mb. and with this size im at the edge of the dvd. been using this size for a long time. burning with nero.

[overloaded_ide]

1024MB is indeed 1GB and not 1000 ... UNLESS you are talking about DVD discs. Computer bytes are not the same as DVD bytes, check the forum and you'll see what I mean.

ALmost! Any Byte is 8 bits, a bit is a bit and a byte is a byte, unless it was from a dog then hope it don't have rabies!

You are using both data gigs/megs and disk gigs/megs when making DVDs or any files really. Your files are shown in data format type megs and gigs when you look at it with something like windows explorer or dos. Disks are rated in disk format megs/gigs. Really just a cheap trick to rip us off!
120gig drive, but really only 112gigs? They just legally ripped us off for 8 gigs that does not exist! Oh well your first hard drive is ZERO and your second is ONE
And with basic counting and math like that we wonder how we advanced to having programs like MS makes?? Well it figures if they count even count, mutiplie or add, then how the heck can the same people program and make anything work??

Ever wonder why your brand new 80 gig hard drive only has 75gigs free space before even being used! NO it does not contain 5gigs of system files hidden on it just to make it useable, it is a difference in the way the megs and gigs are calulated for data or storage like drives and CD or DVD.

Normally I just shoot for 4gigs even, leaves a saftey margin for error, either going over on file size a little or errors at the end of disks. Either way 4gigs works well for me though I haven't had any real trouble at around 4.3gigs either, but gee, not sure if that was disk gigs or data gigs?? Maybe it was really just 3.5gigs data and 4.3 disk