Help!!! copy to DVD says 4.38 wont fit on a 4.7 gig disc

[ian curtis]

Well I gave up on dvDx copy platinum

( the headaches that gave me &

IFO edit wouldnt work either) .

& tried a Dvd decrypter , Dvd2one

& copy DvD combo

I want the entire movie intact on 1 disc

(as why I tried DvDx copy platinum till my head hurt) .

& Tutorials all say this is possible.

All goes smooth until copy2DvD

goes to burn the DvD

There i`m told the file is over 4.37

Gigs (it`s 4.47) , & wont fit on disc

which is 4.7 gig memorex DVD-R

Do I want to continue burning

& even if I set copy dvd to required size

& continue anyhow , another error message

pops up saying I need @ least 4.48 gigs of disc space

& it wont fit on my media (memorex DVD-R , 4.7 gigs

in size) .

I`m banging my head on the monitor by now . What gives

here .

Please give some much needed & appreciated advice

[AdamRA4]

Use what my signature has. DVD Decrypter, then DVDShrink, then CopyToDVD. Should have no problems. Hope that helps.

[ghoster]

short version is your movie is to big. the max your blank dvds can hold is 4.36 GB

[soundforbjt]

Though the blank dvd disc say 4.7gigs, in reality that translates to 4.36 to 4.37 per disc.

[mats.hogberg]

DVD Decrypter, then DVDShrink, then CopyToDVD

...or DVDShrink (99.9% of the times, no need to rip first), then Imgtools Classic, then any burning app that knows how to burn an ISO (I use DVDDEcrypter).

/Mats

[dvdnew]

I think if you have Nero installed you can burn directly with DVDshrink 3.1.2

4,700,000,000 Bytes are equal to:
- 4589843.75 KBytes (= original value / 1024)
- 4482.26 MBytes (= KBytes / 1024)
- 4.37 GBytes (= MBytes / 1024)

so 4.7 "decimal" GBytes = 4.37 "computer" GBytes

[Gurm]

It really is quite misleading, isn't it?

Basically for whatever reason, people who manufacture media (be it hard discs, DVD burners, or blank CD's) have permission from the government to use one MILLION bytes as a megabyte, and one BILLION bytes as a gigabyte. In reality, a megabyte is:

1024*1024 = 1048576 bytes. That's off by 48k. Not so much, you say?

Well, a gigabyte really is:

1024*1024*1024 = 1073741824. A difference of 73 Megs.

Now, using this math, 4 "gigabytes" adds up to almost 300megs of "difference". That's where your missing space has gone.

- Gurm

[haloblack]

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