A. Lanza wrote:
El jue, 24-02-2005 a las 08:06 -0600, Jeff Vian escribió:
On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 14:12 +0100, A. Lanza wrote:
Hi list,
i'm trying to burn a DVD using k3b, as i usually do for CD burning. I'm
using 4,7GB size DVD-R. The problem is that i cannot burn a 4,4GB. file.
The file is exactly 4,613,704,668 bytes long.
The message i get from k3b is the following: /usr/bin/mkisofs: Value too large for defined data type and then File <file> is too large - ignoring
It seems like the problem is the file size, but that file should fit in a DVD, shouldn't it? Is there any limit in the size of files written to DVD?
Thanks,
Alf
I create a data DVD by using { file -> new project -> new data DVD project } then creating the file list to be included with drag-n-drop.
Yes, i'm doing just that way. In fact, when i drag and drop the files, the bar indicating space occupied on the DVD remains in the green zone, doesn't reach the DVD limit.
Remember that when you burn a file to a DVD, growisofs has to convert the file to an ISO filesystem image and then burn this to the DVD. This process is adding to the number of bytes making the image too large for the disk. Perhaps K3B's size calculation needs some adjustment to account for this size expansion ???
John
This would be easy to test. Use k3b to create just the iso and see what size it is. Mount the iso as a loop file to see if the data is correct.
After this test it would be easy to file a bug report.
My K3b only shows 4.4gig as available, even with a 4.7gig DVD in.
As a test I created a set of files that was 794B less than the 4.4GB that was showing in my K3b status bar. I had a Maxell DVD-R 4.7GB DVD to burn on. On creating only the image, I get an ISO file size of 4,703,707,136.
I didn't try to burn it though.
-- Robin Laing
