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Re: dvd spanning and burning freeware?

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From: John Matthews
Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 02:24
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On 29/05/2010 6:56 AM, thedockson wrote:
> Hello, I have to give some dvds to a client later or tomorrow and was
> going to use 7zip to create dvd sized chunks of files from a 25 gig
> folder, with thousand of files, but it wouldn't work, It would act
> like it's working but nothing gets created.
>
> Tried to just highlight approx dvd size of files to be burned with
> win7 and that gave errors of size.
>
> So I need a dvd program that will automatically size files to be
> burned to dvd and prompt for the next dvd until the process is
> finished.
>
> A linux app would be doable if I installed linux or if a live cd would
> have an app that would be nice, but a free windows app would be
> better.
>
> Thanks for suggestions.

SizeMe
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/SizeMe.shtml
http://www.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/SizeMe-Screenshot-24703.html
http://lars.werner.no/wordpress/?page_id=2
http://lars.werner.no/?p=34
SizeMe makes it possible to scan a directory and compare it to how many 
floppy/zip/CD-R/DVD-discs you need. (Many calls it spanning or span of 
elements over a medium). It tries to fill each disc up as much as 
possible, and gives you the result on each disc.

cd_create
http://www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Tools/Data-CD-DVD-Burning/cd-create.shtml
http://www.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/cd-create-Screenshot-76951.html
http://abi.e-arroyo.net/projects/edc/
cd_create is a software that will allow users to easily burn CD/DVD media.
What makes this project different than all of the other media burning 
programs? Well, cd_create is written in Java. In hindsight, it would 
have been much easier if I would have written it in bash or perl, but I 
didn't. I was also attracted to the idea of portability, but that turned 
out to be a bit of a headache sometimes...
Here are some key features of "cd create":
� Media spanning
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