DVD burning software?

[withe]

Does anyone know why, when i try to burn 4.6GB worth of files on to a DVD-R or - RW (Sp120min/4.7GB) it will only let me burn 4.45Gb worth on Pioneer Record Now DX software. this is the first time i have tried to burn something of this size? is it the software the files or the DVD-R/ -RW?

If its the Software anyone know of a decent free app.

 

[Antisocial Virge]

I'm pretty sure a dvd-r can actually only hold like 4.36 gig actually. 4.7 is a marketing thing.

 

[Dre]

Originally posted by: Antisocial-Virge
I'm pretty sure a dvd-r can actually only hold like 4.36 gig actually. 4.7 is a marketing thing.

That's right.

 

[Bojangles139]

it has something to do with 1 megabyte is actually something like 900,000 bytes. i forget why this is or how this came to be, but its true in most media's. something about early programing that made it kinda goofy. i'm sure somebody knows more about it then i, but i *believe* this is true.

brandon

 

[Escalade]

has something to do with 1 megabyte is actually something like 900,000 bytes.

1-megabyte equals 1,024,000 bytes - always has, always will.

I know the marking people like to fiddle with the numbers so that it looks like their device holds more than their competitors, but the simple truth of the matter is; this is deceptive advertising.

If they represented a megabyte for what it is, an advertised capacity of 4.7GB would equal 4,812,800 bytes.

 

[Nothinman]

1-megabyte equals 1,024,000 bytes - always has, always will.

Depends.

http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cach...ro/fun/bindec-c.html+MiB+vs+MB&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 <-- google cache link because the original site appears to be down.

Another thing to be careful of is converting between binary gigabytes and binary megabytes. Decimal gigabytes and megabytes differ by a factor of 1,000 but of course the binary measures differ by 1,024. So this same 30 GB hard disk is 30,000 MB in decimal terms. But its 27.94 binary gigabytes are equal to 28,610 binary megabytes (27.94 times 1,024).

The IEEE has proposed a new naming convention for the binary numbers, to hopefully eliminate some of the confusion. Under this proposal, for binary numbers the third and fourth letters in the prefix are changed to "bi", so "mega" becomes "mebi" for example. Thus, one megabyte would be 10^6 bytes, but one mebibyte would be 2^20 bytes. The abbreviation would become "1 MiB" instead of "1 MB"

 

[Bojangles139]

Originally posted by: Escalade

has something to do with 1 megabyte is actually something like 900,000 bytes.

1-megabyte equals 1,024,000 bytes - always has, always will.
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Hehe, but i had the correct concept! :-D never been good with numbers. ;-)

brandon