What is DVD 9, 10, and 18?

[arvin]

Hi , I have DVD burner and the DVD 4.5GB is the media I can only find.
Is there any DVD disc with bigger capacity so I can copy DVD master or record more data that 4.5 GB.

Will my Pioneer burner use that 4.5 GB bigger DVD

thanks

[pixel]

You can only use 4.5GB discs on any DVD burner.
You can also buy double sided discs which give the same capacity as a DVD 9 but these are way too expensive and more likely to be scratched than single sided discs.

DVD 9's are the Hollywood-made disc preferred medium which is "dual-layer" (2 layers of 4.5GB on one side of a disc) but because of the way these work it is impossible for any burner to write dual-layers.

[Marco33]

In a word...no.

But, You can get a dual sidded DVD disk.

Glossary

DVD-10 is a double sided single layer DVD which can fit up to 8.7 computer GB. Video DVD, DVD-R/W and DVD+R/W supports this format.

[graysky]

Check out my webpage for more info and guides I hope you'll find useful (URL in my sig)

[poopyhead]

DVD5 = single-sided, single-layer

DVD9 = single-sided, dual-layer

DVD10 = double-sided, single-layer

DVD18 = double-sided, double-layer

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technically, DVD-R/+R is 4.38 GB or 4489 MB.

when DVD-R/+R say 4.7 GB, it isn't the same as a computer GB

so, to convert "their" GB to computer GB, we need to

4,700,000,000 B / 1024 = 4589843.75 KB / 1024 = 4482.27 MB / 1024 = 4.37 GB

note: there is rounding....
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all DVD-R/+R will be single-layer DVD5 4.38 GB. those double-sided, single-layered DVD-R/+R is basically just a separate DVD5 on each side....it's NOT the same as a dual-layered DVD9 discs.....

so, you can NOT just do a straight copy (minus CSS encryption, of course ) from a dual-layer DVD9 to a double-sided, single-layered DVD-R/+R...you will still need to split the DVD9 to 2 DVD5 discs, using DVDXCOPY or DVDFAB.

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@arvin,

so, if you enounter a DVD9 (or DVD18, which is basically a DVD9 on each side...which can basically be treated separately), you either

1) split to 2 DVD5 discs with DVDXCOPY or DVDFAB

or

2) compress it down to fit on 1 DVD5: https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/141024