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Article #23Re: dvd spanning and burning freeware?
From: John Matthews
Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 02:24
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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