DVD Capacity

[dupree1226]

I am seeing that many of the DVDs I try to burn tell me that my disc does not have enough room to burn the DVD. I am using high quality DVD-Rs but they are old. Are they making newer DVD-Rs with more capacity or do I need to use a blu-ray disc? These are def DVDs not blu-rays but maybe people are burning everything to blu rays now? Sorry, I've gotten a little out of touch :rolleyes:

[joujoujou]

You may need dual layer for larger files.

Have a read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_recordable#Capacities

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD#Capacity and scroll down to "Capacity differences of writable DVD formats" table.

[dupree1226]

You may need dual layer for larger files.

Have a read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_recordable#Capacities

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD#Capacity and scroll down to "Capacity differences of writable DVD formats" table.


Thank you. It looks like I need dual layer discs but they are difficult to burn without problems

[LeifH12345]

Yes dual layers can have problems with the transition to the second layer, and you can end up throwing away a lot of discs, which of course cost more than single layers. I stopped authoring dual layer discs a while back after realizing this. Better to just split things into single layer format.

[firemt66]

When I burn dual layer disks I use the slowest speed and do nothing else on the computer while it's burning..and never wind up with a coaster

[sjmike]

I highly recommend to only use Verbatim dual layer dvds. They're very high quality and I almost never have any issues with them. In the past 3 months I've burned over 50 DL-DVDs for trades and only had 5 bad discs, mainly because I set the incorrect burn speed.

With all other brands I end up with coasters.