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psilo357

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Registered: 2008-10-31

Posts: 116

Burning 5gb file onto dual layer dvd

I am trying to burn a 5gb file onto a dual layer dvd.  Its a .mpg file, however, gnomebaker is giving me hassles.  i have burned dual layer dvd with it before, but it keeps failing this time, here is the output of the failure:

Executing 'mkisofs -gui -V GnomeBaker data disk -A GnomeBaker -p Unknown -iso-level 3 -l -r -hide-rr-moved -J -joliet-long -graft-points --path-list /tmp/GnomeBaker-randy/gnomebaker-5K3WDV | builtin_dd of=/dev/sr0 obs=32k seek=0'
I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings)
File /home/randy/Desktop/homeMovie.x264.mpg is larger than 4GiB-1.
-allow-limited-size was not specified. There is no way do represent this file size. Aborting.
:-( write failed: Input/output error

So how do i 'represent this file size' in order to get this to burn?  I just want it on the disc as a .mpg, so I can watch on my ps3, if i have to convert to an ISO i can, but I have burned many .mpg like this before, but normally smaller and onto single layer dvds.

Any help is appreciated.

takedown

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From: Argentina

Registered: 2008-08-31

Posts: 219

Re: Burning 5gb file onto dual layer dvd

try to burn it with UDF filesystem
ISO can't burn files over 2/4 GiB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660#T … size_limit)

daneel971

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Registered: 2008-03-28

Posts: 197

Re: Burning 5gb file onto dual layer dvd

As takedown said, UDF can do it. Anyway, in the article he linked, it is said that iso level 3 works with files bigger than 4Gb.
mkisofs (the REAL one from cdrtools, as opposed to genisoimage from cdrkit) has iso level 3 support (ok, I know: genisoimage can also do it but with a workaround - so why bother?).
So basically what you need is:

growisofs -speed=X -Z /dev/your/burner -V"VOLUMENAME" -v -R -r -iso-level 3 yourbigmpegfile.mpg

if you want an ISO image before burning, then:

mkisofs -v -R -r -iso-level 3 -o bigiso.iso yourbigmpegfile.mpg

and then

growisofs -speed=X -Z /dev/your/burner=bigiso.iso

Last edited by daneel971 (2010-06-01 06:23:50)