Re: how to burn iso image over 4.7GB
--- On Thu, 4/12/12, Jon Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> wrote:
> From: Jon Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>
> Subject: Re: how to burn iso image over 4.7GB
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Thursday, April 12, 2012, 9:21 AM
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 06:57:22AM
> -0700, Go Linux wrote:
> > I've done that MANY times with DVDShrink - http://www.dvdshrink.org/. ; You'll
> > need to run it in Wine though . . .
>
> That assumes that the source ISO is a DVD Video (it might
> not be), and it
> should be mentioned that dvd shrink throws information away
> (lossy
> transformation) to make the movie fit on a single-sided
> disc. OTOH you can
> rarely tell that information has been thrown away, sometimes
> it might matter,
> sometimes it might not.
>
> (DVD Shrink is one of a series of Windows programs that
> impress me with their
> "do one thing well" approach, and I've never found a Linux
> app to match it.
> Similarly, whereas grip has now left the Debian archive and
> sound-juicer
> continues to break in interesting ways, most recently with
> multi-disc rips,
> "cdex" on Windows *still* just works.)
>
>
>
I have always shrunk ISOs mastered with DVDStyler never an actual DVD. They have always been just at the 4.7GB limit. I've not noticed a difference is quality but then I'm watching them on an old 20" CRT.
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