Dual Layer DVD Writing

Laurence Sanford lauasanf at wilderness.dyn.dhs.org
Thu Feb 3 09:37:20 PST 2005


Neal Nelson wrote:

> Does anyone know how to write to a dual layer DVD?
>
> growisofs just complains that a file I want to write is too large and 
> ignores it. The web site just says that dual layer writing is 
> supported and doesn't say that I need to do anything special and the 
> man pages are silent on this aspect.


If the file you are writing is larger than (700MB?) it won't write on 
anything. If you're trying to write one big 7 gig file, it won't work. 
If you have 7 gigs worth of files smaller than 700 meg each, then it 
should work just fine.


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