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9.4 Gb Dvd-r

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Jackalkhan

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Howdy,
I recently got a powerbook G4 with a superdrive. And using the tutorial on this forum, I backed up my copy of Donnie Darko.
Unfortunately my DVD-R is only 4.7GB so I could only backup the movie and none of the extras.
So I've been searching for higher capacity DVD-R's that are reasonably priced and came across this:
tp://shop.store.yahoo.com/cdrdvdrmedia/accu-dvd-r-media-94.html (outdated link removed)
9.4GB double-sided DVD-R. Now does this mean that there is still only 4.7GB per side, still making it impossible
to backup the entire dvd content? Though It would be cool to have 2 separate movies on opposite sides of the same DVD-R but thats not what I'm looking for. I want to back up the whole DVD, extras and all.
Does anyone now of decent priced 9.4GB single sided DVD-R's ?

thanks
-jackalkhan
 
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silentraven

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Get DVD2oneX...it'll take larger DVDs and make them fit onto a 4.7GB DVD...there is some loss...but i didn't notice it in the DVD i did.
BTW, it has to be ripped to the HD first...for that i use DVDBackup...

Hope that helps
 
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Jackalkhan

Guest
silentraven said:
Get DVD2oneX...it'll take larger DVDs and make them fit onto a 4.7GB DVD...there is some loss...but i didn't notice it in the DVD i did.
BTW, it has to be ripped to the HD first...for that i use DVDBackup...

Hope that helps
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Hmm. I used DVD2oneX. Bought the full version and all that. And I use DVDBackup to rip it to the hard drive.
I'll have to play around with it some more.
Is there a setting in DVD2one that sets the compression to make it fit to 4.7GB?
Thanks
- Jackalkhan
 
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ckny

Guest
sometimes dvd2onex doesn't compress it enough. for example, my copy of the hulk wouldn't fit on one dvd with all the extras. lotr - two towers did though. odd huh?
 
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The Dragon

Guest
set the size manualy to for example 4450 witch is 22 mb less about 0,5 % smaller then 4472 sand thaat will work just fine.
Good luck
 

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