Problem burning to DVD - "not enough space"

DeepBlue

I'm trying to burn 4.4GB worth of files onto a 4.7GB DVD+R recordable DVD.
I created a burn folder but when I go to burn it I get an error saying that there isn't enough room on the disk and to delete some files to continue .

Is there a way I can get more onto the DVD or have I hit some limit? Any thoughts?
Sorry if this is a simple problem but it's the first time I've used the DVD burner on the mac and I assumed it would be possible to use up to the full capacity of the DVD.
I'm using Mac OsX (Version 10.4.9).

Thanks in advance for any assistance .

cathald

Try the afterdawn forum at www.afterdawn.com they have answers for all DVD questions

K.O.Kiki

Try burning it with the YuBurner application.

big_moe

what exactly are the size of the files to be burned? yes, dvds are 4.7 gb but formatted space is 4420MB or something like that. maybe thats causing the problems. try to burn 4.3GB and see what happens.

DeepBlue

Thanks for the replies folks.

So 4.7GB is really 4.3GiB? Who knew? .
Bloody marketing people :mad: .

big_moe

thats always the way! i have a "400GB" hard drive with about 360GB of actual space!!!

moe

anthony4335

I think that this is the same problem I have been having, you need to insert the blank dvd and open the burn folder from the finder that is opened , other wise it seems to think that it is a cd. Pain the back side!

mathias

The disk capacity is 4.7GB , this is not the same as the figure the operating system is reporting as OS's have always used a binary system and misused the SI terms , see below ,

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html

Basically you are trying to burn too much to the disk , drop or compress some files and you'll be OK. There is nothing wrong with your drive.

ld50

How much hard disk space is left on your mac?

I ran into a similar problem a couple of years ago.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42707

unklerosco

Had a similar prob trying to burn a movie with Idvd at the weekend... Ended up using Toast in the end...

DeepBlue

Sorry if I didn't make it clear in my above post.

It turned out that my problem was that I was trying to fit 4.4 GBs of info onto a 4.7GB DVD disk.
However according to this - http://www.afterdawn.com/glossary/terms/dvdplusr.cfm a 4.7 GB disk can only hold 4.38 GB of data which was news to me and so this was why it my 4.4GB wouldn't fit on it.

The obvious question then is - why don't they advertise it as a 4.38GB DVD disk but it's not for a mere mortal like me to question the wisdom of the marketing/advertising people :rolleyes: .

big_moe

technically it it 4.7GB but in reality when its formatted or sum §hit its not..


theres a technical explaination out there on wikipedia... summat to do with 1024kb per mb versus 1000kb per mb...


mad stuff..

moe