DVD burning - mkisofs max size allowed

[A. Lanza]

El jue, 24-02-2005 a las 08:06 -0600, Jeff Vian escribió:
> On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 14:12 +0100, A. Lanza wrote:
> > Hi list,
> > 
> > i'm trying to burn a DVD using k3b, as i usually do for CD burning. I'm
> > using 4,7GB size DVD-R. The problem is that i cannot burn a 4,4GB. file.
> > The file is exactly 4,613,704,668 bytes long.
> > 
> > The message i get from k3b is the following:
> > 	/usr/bin/mkisofs: Value too large for defined data type
> > and then
> > 	File <file> is too large - ignoring
> > 
> > It seems like the problem is the file size, but that file should fit in
> > a DVD, shouldn't it? Is there any limit in the size of files written to
> > DVD?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Alf
> > 
> I create a data DVD by using { file ->  new project -> new data DVD
> project } then creating the file list to be included with drag-n-drop.
> > 
Yes, i'm doing just that way. In fact, when i drag and drop the files,
the bar indicating space occupied on the DVD remains in the green zone,
doesn't reach the DVD limit.