Re: Burning a video DVD

[Michael Voggenreiter <michaelvoggenreiter@gmx.de>]

Rodolfo Medina schrieb:
> Hi, all.
> 
> I created `image.iso' from a video DVD with:
> 
>  $ readcd dev=0,1,0 f=image.iso
> 
> . Now I want to copy it onto an empty DVD with:
> 
>  $ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/scd1=image.iso
> 
> , but I get the following:
> 
>  Executing 'builtin_dd if=image.iso of=/dev/scd1 obs=32k seek=0'
>  :-( /dev/scd1: 2298496 blocks are free, 3993460 to be written!
> 
> . What now?
> How come the source DVD is bigger than the empty one?
> How to copy the video?
> 
> Excuse the basic questions, thanks for any help
> Rodolfo
> 
> 

Hi,
sometimes the empty DVDs you can buy are smaller then the original video
DVDs. There are very few different types of DVDs. Double layer for
example. For your video you should take a DVD bigger than 4 GB.

Michael