Disk capacity issues

[DHRaugh]

I've got a sound and video project that I'm trying to burn onto a DVD+R. It's not a new project; in fact it's one I've already burned several times on similar disks with great success. The project size is 4672mb. MyDVD claims that I've got 4700.3mb available on the disk I'm trying to use. However, when I tell it to burn the project it tells me there isn't enough room on the disk.

 

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Beerman]

I've got a sound and video project that I'm trying to burn onto a DVD+R. It's not a new project; in fact it's one I've already burned several times on similar disks with great success. The project size is 4672mb. MyDVD claims that I've got 4700.3mb available on the disk I'm trying to use. However, when I tell it to burn the project it tells me there isn't enough room on the disk.

 

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Try burning the project to an image file instead of to disc. Then use Disc Copier to burn that image file to disc. If it's too large, Disc Copier will burn it in a 'fit to disc' manner.

[Brendon]

A single layer DVD+R disc has 2295104 sectors, and each sector is 2KB.

That is 4,700,372,992 bytes, not 4,700 MB.

 

Divide that by 1024 x 1024, and you have a tad over 4482 MB of capacity which will be filled by disc structures and user data.

 

MyDVD is reporting that you have 4700.3 million bytes [not megabytes] whereas your project is measured in real MB [1024 x 1024 bytes, = 1048576] so your project IS too big for the disc and needs to be shrunk by Disc Copier as Paul says.

 

Regards,

Brendon