DVD burning - mkisofs max size allowed

[A. Lanza]

El vie, 25-02-2005 a las 21:08 -0800, John Wendel escribió:
> 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!

I've tried enabling overburning, but it does not work. The problem
reported by k3b is still the same.

/usr/bin/mkisofs: Value too large for defined data type
File <file-to-burn> is too large - ignoring...

Watching the log from k3b, it seems like -overburn switch applies only
to growisofs.