Total Capacity

[bairradino]

For a video purpose which is the total capacity, in bytes, that we can put on a DVD +R/ +RW?

[benza]

4.700.000.000 bytes

[oddyseus]

Correction!

It is exactly 4.699.979.776bytes

[Eyes`Only]

Sorry to say, you're both wrong.

DVDr actually holds 4.381 Gigs (4,704,317,440 bytes).

Bytes in a Sector = 2048.

Standard DVDR capacity: 2,297,888 sectors.

FileSystem Overhead= 858 Sectors. (2048*2,297,888)-(2048*858)

Total= 4,704,317,440. 4,704,317,440 bytes=approx. 4.381237 Gigs.

I don't recommend using these figures when you're trying to determine CCE bitrates or whatnot. 4,700,000,000 should suffice and will give you a margin of error.

[oddyseus]

Thank u Eyes for this inside info.

[bairradino]

Many Thanks for all of you, particularly you Eyes.

[Eyes`Only]

No worries. Glad to help. Just wanted to help you understand when that occasion comes that you go to burn a video that's over 4.7gigs and don't get an error. Now you'll know why it worked ;)

[wasp]

What about DVD+R / DVD+RW / DVD-RW
Because Eyes`Only response was about DVD-R standard only...
and based on my observation DVD+R have got a little bit less space available than DVD-R... about...????

[Eyes`Only]

Ahh... very keen observation! DVD+R holds a bit less: 4.377 Gigs (4,700,372,992 bytes with 2,295,104 Sectors).

[wasp]

... but:
4.377 Gigs (4,700,372,992 bytes with 2,295,104 Sectors)
is free space which I may use for data only or free data space + file system???
What about -RW / +RW data capacity (w/o file systems)???
?

[Matthew]

@wasp, my understanding is that a DVD-R, for example, will not hold a VIDEO_TS directory that is 4,704,317,440 in size. Rather, it will only hold an image that is 4,704,317,440 in size.

[Eyes`Only]

FileSystem Overhead= 858 Sectors. (2048*2,297,888)-(2048*858)
Free space for data. The header is already subtracted from that amount. What Matthew stated is correct and is the way I test whether or not it will fit anyway :)