2010/12/30 Björn Helgason <[email protected]> > I am a bit surprised about a dvd disk I am copying to a usb disk, > Usually the dvds are 4GB or less. > This dvd lists as 7GB in properties and listing it there are a lot of 1GB > files and all in all 120 files compared to less than 20 on the other dvds > in > the series I am copying. > What is surprising is that the copy operation tells me the files are more > than 65GB and is taking forever to copy. > I have to have a dvd player open on the pc open on the film because > otherwise the copy operation reports some of the files empty or impossible > to copy. > I am having doubts about having this 65GB monster folder on my hard disk > for > one dvd but I am going to let the copy operation finish and see if I can > compress the files in the folder. > I have never witnessed this before. > Is this something the dvd makers do to deter us from copying. > There are all kinds of tricks needed to copy some dvds. > It is interesting that the file dates are reported as created 30.12.2010 > during copy but after the copy the date is reported as 7.2.2036 > > Quite a few DVDs are double layer these days, that's why it's ~7GB. Maybe your OS is getting confused by that a bit? Or, as you say, the manufacturer is using some "undocumented" bit of the DVD standard to make copying harder.
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