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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Hardware News => Topic started by: SWAUG on March 04, 2004, 09:26:39 PM
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DVD Writing on Amiga - At Last. We have tested LiteOn's DVD+/-RW on the Amiga with DVDRecord software.
Read the full review on our website: http://www.swaug.org.uk
The review is the first review to have the new website look which will be launched in the coming few months.
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Very nice read ;-)
I got a question though. As mentioned the mp3 collection used was 1.5 gb. A dvd can as stated hold 4.7 gb. How does this software cope with the amigaos sizelimit of 2 gb? Is a larger file than 1.5 gb tested?
Greetings
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AFAIR every 32 bit OS has the 2gb file limitation, even Windows. That's why you won't find a file bigger than 2gb on a DVD.
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I'm glad these work as I bought one for my AmigaOne 8-), although I think it was the 4x model - I've only used it in CD mode at the moment, looked far too complicated to do anything else in Linux (even writing CDs was pushing it a bit)
Chris
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I'm not 100% familiar with dvdrecord but i suspect it allows you to burn to a dvd in sessions, which will allow you to get around the 2gb limit by burning to it in 2 sessions. Someone who knows should be able to confirm that.
What would be nice would be a GUI interface on top of it. We have seen this done before, so hopefully someone who is able to can make us one.
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AFAIR every 32 bit OS has the 2gb file limitation, even Windows. That's why you won't find a file bigger than 2gb on a DVD.
I am running Windows XP on a seperate machine (yeah, I have to use Windows for work...), and I have no problems creating files larger than 2 GB. When importing digital video, files often get considerable larger than that.
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Windows has no 2GB file limit. The FAT filesystem, however, does :)
NTFS under NT4, 2000 and XP, does not.
Actually creating a DVD >2GB on AmigaOS will be easy as long as you do it "on the fly". Or you could generate the disk in 3 chunks :)
Ripping a DVD to a single file would be impossible, however.
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AFAIR every 32 bit OS has the 2gb file limitation, even Windows. That's why you won't find a file bigger than 2gb on a DVD.
Ahem. Win2k. NTFS. I created a 2.5GB rar file nps.
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We need more product reviews, like this!
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Ahem. Win2k. NTFS. I created a 2.5GB rar file nps.
Ahem. WinNT ;-)
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Ahem. WinNT
NT 5.0 to be precise. Would you like a gold star? :-)