Why does it Say not 4.7 gigs on Burning Program?

[Goldman123]

On Sonic RecordNow!

Program use for burning CDs, and Data DVDs, said It can only hold 43xx something megabytles (xx is I forgot which numbers) instead of 4.7 which says on the DVD R

Anyone got a clue?

[Bodyslide]

Info on sizes here.

https://www.videohelp.com/dvd

[jimmalenko]

https://www.videohelp.com/dvd.htm#1000

[Goldman123]

DVD capacities are usually given in billions of bytes, such as 4.7 billion bytes for a recordable disc. Computer files are measured in gigabytes. Unfortunately, both types of measurements are often labeled as "GB." So a 4.5-GB file (4.5 gigabytes) from a computer will not fit on a 4.7-GB disc (4.7 billion bytes), since the file contains 4.8 billion bytes.
The Computer sees 1GB as 1,073,741,824 bytes.
The disc manufactures see 1GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes.
So a 4.7GB DVD disc holds 4,700,000,000 bytes.
That divided by 1,073,714,824 (a real GB).
=4.37GB of real data storage.
You will need to shrink the file size to 4.37GB or less.

From Portmac, cdfreaks.com

Sheesh...

lol...

Well Can I Burn the Files as an .ISO and take more space of the DVD? Like How CD-Rs have 200 more megabytes and you can write over it a lil bit??

[guns1inger]

You run greater risk of not being able to retrieve data when you try to overburn. Even more so with DVDs. Many people won't even write to the last 200 mb of a DVD because they don't trust the edges of the media.

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=291520