DVD burning - mkisofs max size allowed

[John Wendel]

James McKenzie wrote:
> John Wendel wrote:
> 
>> Brian Ashe wrote:
>>
>>> And from the growisofs man page...
>>>
>>> -overburn Normally DVD media can accommodate up to approximately 
>>> 4.700.000.000 bytes (in marketing speech 4.7GB). In other words a DVD 
>>> can contain about 4.377 GiB or 4482 MiB. Growisofs won't start 
>>> without this option, if "overburn" condition appears to be unavoidable.
>>>
>>
>> Bingo! And "-overburn" doesn't seem to be available as a DVD burning 
>> option in K3B.
> 
> 
> Found the overburn selection.  Look at Tools -> Configure K3b....  Once 
> the Options - K3b dialog window opens, look at the Advanced tab under 
> Writing.  There is a selection to allow overburning.  This should be 
> what you are looking for.

Nice catch. Thanks!

John