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Re: dvd spanning and burning freeware?

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From: Tony
Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 18:39
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Or buy a blu-ray burner and some blanks that are 50 gigabytes apiece. If
the other sap doesn't have a blu-ray reader well at least the person
burning them should impress the client.

Andy wrote:

> thanatoid wrote:
>
> > thedockson <thedockson@lavabit.com> wrote in
> > news:0d9e01cc-2ed7-452e-9220-50d5fe78742a@z33g2000vbb.googlegr
> > oups.com:
> >
> >> 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.
>
> FFS - just buy a 32GB thumb drive, copy the files to it and save
> yourself a day of fucking around.
>
> > The first thing that you have to be aware of is the difference
> > in the /claimed/ capacity and ACTUAL capacity. A 700MB CD-R
> > actually holds up to 734,003 KB, possibly slightly more
> > depending on manufacturer.
> >
> > I don't own a DVD burner so I have never looked into DVD
> > "numbers",
>
> Not into 'cutting edge' technology, eh?
>
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From: Tony <Tony@TheDeli.Sandwich>
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Subject: Re: dvd spanning and burning freeware?
Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 14:39:52 -0400
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