[mythtv-users] rip DVD (I own) to storage with menus

Eric Sharkey eric at lisaneric.org
Tue Jan 17 15:08:23 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> On 1/17/2012 09:51, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Michael Watson
>> <michael at thewatsonfamily.id.au>  wrote:
>>> On 18/01/2012 12:17 AM, Kris B. wrote:
>>> DVD in its big size, is 4Gb, possibly 8Gb (if dual layer).  Not really a
>>> huge amount of space is it??
>> A dual layer DVD can exceed 9GB (not Gb) per side.
>
> A dual layer DVD stores less per layer than a single layer DVD, meaning
> it contains just under 8GB.

I stand corrected.  DVD-9 does store about 8GB.  The marketing
department strikes again...

Still, it's well north of the 8 gigabits previously quoted.

Eric


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