On Sunday 12 February 2006 23:02, James Kaufman wrote: > > Some people don't have dual layer dvd writers. > > The Windows world has a program called DVD Fab (Platinum) that will > split a DVD9 into two DVD5 files, ready to burn to two DVDs. It's > quite useful actually. I haven't found a Linux equivalent yet. > I suspect that it does exist though. I have a hardware DVD recorder that appears to run xine for its UI. If you make a recording that is too long to go on a DVD5 disk, there is a utility to split it - and conversely to combine two shorter recordings. Of course it may be proprietary software, but I'm certain that box runs embedded linux. Anne