[X4U] Does size matter?

[Stroller]

On 19 Nov 2007, at 19:52, Kevin Willis wrote:

> I have been recording my favorite TV shows on my Mac and turning  
> them into DVD's for a couple of years now. I would always add  
> episodes to iMovie until I got about 2 hours worth of shows. Then,  
> I would use iDVD to burn them. The iMovie files were over 20 GB,  
> but the running time was less than 2 hours. I have never had a  
> problem getting them to burn on regular 4.7 GB DVD's. Now when I  
> try, I get a message from iDVD saying the file is too big, and I  
> need double layer disks.

Hi there,

As I understand it iDVD burns standard-type DVDs, playable in a DVD  
player.

Yet you should be able to navigate the finished DVD in Finder, select  
all (Apple-A) and Get Info (Apple-i or Apple-Alt-i? I'm not sure) and  
see the total size of all files.

What's the total size of all the files on one of the previous disks,  
please? If it's around the 4.69gig mark then one could see how easily  
it could fail to fit, should one of your shows overrun or otherwise  
become longer by a normal variation.

I think that using iMovie / iDVD it's possible to - rather than  
burning the DVD directly - produce an .iso or .dmg image file of the  
disk. Can you do this and tell us exactly what size it is, please? It  
would probably be useful - if you have the original recordings of a  
disk you've already made - if you can reproduce this disk and tell us  
what size that disk image is, too.

Stroller.