Do you always burn under the max capacity of a disc?

So do you always leave some space so that you don't burn on the edges of blank dvds???

I don't always buy name brand discs so I'm trying to remember to encode to 4gb instead of the single layer limit. Though of course I don't always.

i always use high quality japanese made media.. so i have no problems burning to the maximum capacity of the disc..

i learned my lesson many years ago about cheap dvd-r media..

i've got movies from 5 years ago that are 4.37gb and i can still make copies of them without a problem.

although when backing up movies, i always keep the main menu, because it is a backup i'm aiming for the highest video quality..

i use clonedvd2 to transcode my movies now, and i usually remove extras & additional audio tracks to get 100% video quality or the highest video quality available.. sometimes that will leave me at something like 4.1gb or 4.2gb..

Whatever it takes. If it's too much, I add more discs. Or I jump to a DL.

My upper limit is 4.2 GB. Never a byte above.

/Mats

Originally Posted by manono

Do you always burn under the max capacity of a disc?

Kinda hard to burn over the max capacity.

4475-4480 MB for me.

I suppose I could have phrased it "do you burn under the limit of the disc" but it seemed like everyone understood

And actually at least for cdr's you can overburn. I've never bothered to find out if you can overburn a dvdr. The point was asking if people just encode to the maximum of the disc and not worry about possible read errors at the edges

ive setup dvdshrink or dvdfab to output to 4.25G whatever media i use.

Originally Posted by manono

Do you always burn under the max capacity of a disc?

Kinda hard to burn over the max capacity.

4475-4480 MB for me.

y'know, you can overburn dvd-r's?