[X4U] Why is my DVD Capacity so small?

Paul Moortgat paul.moortgat at pandora.be
Sun Feb 6 14:27:42 PST 2011


John,

That's what I heard in the old days.  It seems to been shifted a  
little since then. <http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/2279>

Paul Moortgat


On 06 Feb 2011, at 20:52, John Erdman wrote:

> Paul -
> Perhaps it depends on where you're located on the globe, but the  
> info I have indicates that the +R disks are better for this. I have  
> been successful at making other useful video DVD's with these disks  
> but their file sizes were only about 1 GB, so I never ran into this  
> capacity problem before.
>
>
> The problem stills stands. Why is there such a discrepancy in  
> capacity advertised vs capacity "measured", and why is it so  
> different between OSX and WinXP OS's?
>
> Tanks for the suggestion,
>
> John
>
>
> On Feb 6, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Paul Moortgat wrote:
>
>> For video one use usually  DVD-R disks.
>>
>> Paul Moortgat



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