burning 790MB or 780 onto a 700MB cd

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  1. wah28

    wah28 Member

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    i was wondering if this is possible...i heared someone saying u can but u had to alter something?? i was wondering if someone can help me with this:d thanks:D
     
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    It depends on what kind of disk you're burning. CDs are organized into sectors that are each 2352 bytes. Each sector for a data CD only holds 2048 bytes of data, with the rest used for error correction information. VCD has less error correction, allowing 2336 bytes of data per sector, or about 800MB on a 700MB disk. Audio CDs have no error correction, so they use all the space on the disk for actual data.
     
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    I was wondering almost the same thing, except for a VCD. I want to burn something that is 735 MB onto a 700 MB CD as a VCD.
     
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    UMMmm...You can get up to 800mb on a 700mb CD-R when Burning in VCD or SVCD Format...This is because VCD"s and SVCD"s do not have any Error Correction Data like other CD"s Like Data CD"s so there is extra Room on the CD-R that would usually be used for Error Correction..The drawback is that VCD/SVCD have to burned very Slowly because there is Not data to correct any Burn errors so Little Glitches in the Video when Playing Back on your DVD Player Can be Quite Common, so try to Burn at like 4X or 8X speed Max when doing VCD"s & SVCD"s.....
     

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