Hi, my blank DVD is 4.7 GB, and the DVD I want to copy is 7.7GB. Is there ANY way to copy this DVD on a smaller capacity blank DVD, even if it means "cutting off" some parts? Are there larger capacity blank DVds out there? Thanks
*sigh*... First of all, your disc is actually 4.36GB, the 4.7GB they claim on the label is b.s. Secondly, please use the "Search messages" to find the discussions that cover this area pretty well -- there are basically various situations for each different type of movie (some movies fit to 4.36GB once you strip out extras / stuff, some movies don't and need to be either split to two discs or re-encoded with TMPGEnc or ReMPEG2).
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Nope, you just buy it. I bought Nero 5.5 on ebay for ten bucks (factory disc w/license) and then updated it to version 5.5.10.54 which works beautifully. Not as facy as Nero 6 but it gets the job done.
Pete! Pray-tell where have you been? I've been feeling kinda lost knowing that I *might* be one of the oldest ole farts here. Good seeing ya, I gotta go clean out my card punch machine so I can punch out some code in Fortran and try it in my card reader. RWG
RWG, Seems that now I appear to be on dRD's shiet list - Glad ya droped me a line - Be good,ya hear, "P"
