Capacity limit on 4.7GB DVD

[Conversion]

I have burned a couple of data DVD but Primo only limit around 4.4GB. Anyone know if we can overburn over 4.4 GB? (Using A04 and SuperMediaStore dvd generic)

[bugster]

Like everything else in this world, the size of a DVD depends on how you measure it. According to Disc manufacturers, 1 kilobyte = 1000 bytes and 1 megabyte = 1000 kilobytes. According to Microsoft and most of the rest of the IT industry, 1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes and 1 megabyte = 1024 of those kilobytes. So when Pioneer say the disc is 4.7 Gigabytes, that is using the disc manufacturers version of measurement (1k = 1000) but when measured by your pc, it displays its values using the 1k=1024 measurement method. Hence the discrepancy. (the actual capacity in bytes is the same BTW)

A DVD-r can contain approx 4.3Gigs of data (as measured by windows) and AFAIK overburning is not available.