size of blank dvd

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  1. trike

    trike Member

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    I have a movie on a 4.7 dvd - nero will read it fine but when i put a blank dvd+ it says my disk is to small to copy movie to any ideas this is doing my head in lol thanks.

    my dvd burner is a sony dvd +rw
     
  2. LuNaTiC

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    A blank DVD+R will only hold about 4.37gb not the 4.7gb that they claim.
     
  3. trike

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    THANKS FOR THE QUICK ANSWER SEEMS A DVD-BURNER NEEDED HERE THEN
    NEVER RAINS BUT IT POURS LOL
     
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    You can shrink it to fit on one dvd+r with software called dvd2one.
     
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    WOULD i NEED TO BUY THIS OR COULD YOU POINT ME TO LINK TO GET IT ?
    THANKS AGAIN
     
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    QUESTION lUNATIC do you use a + or a _
    if _ what size do you get from a blank dvd
     
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    There are just about 4,700,000,000 bytes on a 4.37GB DVD-R. This is because of the quirky way in which bytes are counted. 1KB is 1024 bytes, and so on. Therefore 4.7 Billion bytes are on a 4.37GB DVD-R

    Paul.
     
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    I've tried dvdshrink. Seems to work great. Especially for episodal DVDs. Grab it while it's free.
     
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    Bear in mind DVDshrink is a partial copy of DVD Decrypter.

    Paul.
     
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