Problems copying a DVD

[Ben Scott]

On 4/9/07, Steven W. Orr <steveo at syslang.net> wrote:
> The problem is that the DVD I'm copying lands on my disk as
> 7944501248bytes which I'm guessing is bigger than the 8.5gig that the
> double layer DVD I bought will hold.

  Well, I have zero experience at this, but:

7944501248 bytes / 1024 ^ 3 = 7.4 binary gigabytes

7944501248 bytes / 1000000000 = 7.9 decimal gigabytes

  7.9 < 8.5, yes?  :-)

-- Ben