[S] Burning a movie larger than 4.7gb to watch on dvd player
January 22nd, 2020
I need help. I have a couple of dvd movie images in my hardrive and I want to burn them into a disc already so I can watch them on my TV with my dvd player.
Only problem is that they surpass the 4.50 something GB, so I can’t burn them into a common dvd disc.
Do dvds with more than 4.7gb exist? I mean, I know they do but to be sincere I have never seen one in a shop… How more expensive they are than a common dvd disc? also, do I need a special kind of burner to use them?
I know I can do something to the images to reduce their size, but I guess that comes with some quality loss and wouldn’t like to do that.
Help please W-BB
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Yes, there are DVD’s with more than 4.7GB. A Blu ray DVD has 25GB on it.
A non HD DVD with more than 4.7GB, I don’t think exist.
HNY :mrredhat: dude, ofc there are dvd more then 4,5 GB for example a simple double layer still is a one sided disk but can store up to 8,5 GB. It cost more ofc but the price is slightly more then for 2 normal dvd’s. There are also double sided dvd’s but i think that as long as u won’t download any full HD or BD movies u should be fine with just double layer (BRRip weights usually 7-8Gb maximum).
You can always change the quality of the movie to a bit lower i guess iis the only way unless you get a dual layer or cut the movie in 2
It’s a dvd iso.
How about taking stuff out? Like, for example, I am only interested in one language. I know there’s software to take out extras and stuff, but can’t recall the name. Help?
hmm that would be dvd shrink
they are called dvd-dl, and they are sold in stores.
most dvd players (those built in the last 2 years) will read them, since most new movies are more then 4.7gbs.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Can_you_play_a_double_layer_DVD_in_any_DVD_player
dvd-r dl.
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=12321761
To use a dual layered DVD (DVD9), you need a burner that can burn to both layers or it will not do you any good to buy them. Use the DvdShrink option, its free and yes you will loose a tiny bit of quality, but remember, its still 4.3gig big, not like a 700mb avi file loss of quality. Shrink wants the iso’s mounted to read them, but would read a VIDEO_TS folder from the hard drive as well. Play around with its options, do you really want all the languages? How about the extras like the making of this movie and other crap like coming attractions. It has options to set pictures instead of videos for shorts and extras that can save room or you can keep everything and just lower the quality over all.
Well guys, since I couldn’t find DVD9 anywhere, I decided to give DVD Shrink a try and I have to say I’m satisfied. By removing extras I’m not interested in I managed to minimize the compression and therefore the loss, so the quality is not greatly downgraded. It gave me some issues with one of my movies so for that one I used CloneDVD2 which I also liked.
Thanks guys.