Are you talking using a DVD writer on your computer or a mass-produced DVD for sale?
DVD-9 is the most common format for commercial disks and is 2 layer, single sided giving 8.54GB of space. I hear they are now doing 3 layer disks which, I would guess, would give you about 12.75GB. How much time that gives you depends upon how compressed the movie is. Very high quality does about an hour per layer. I am pretty sure that "normal" quality is about 2 hours per layer. So the longest "normal" on a 2 layer disk would be about 4 hours. -- David Risner Software Engineer MERLOT, California State University On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Jon Delfin <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone happen to know the capacity of a standard DVD? How long is > the greatest-length movie that could fit on one (no extras, no > commentaries, no foreign language tracks, no promos, no nothin')? > Thanks. > > jd > > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
