what is cdrecord doing?

[Tony Nelson]

At 11:27 AM -0600 11/9/06, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Jeff Vian wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 12:07 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>> > I used cdrecord to burn a DVD.
>> > It seems to have worked, but the output confuses me.
>> > The last line is:
>> > Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 399360/614400 (300 sectors).
>> >
>> That would be almost 700mb, which is the typical max size for a CD.  You
>> are after all using cdrecord which is designed with CDs in mind.
>
>The iso file was much smaller than that.
>It seems to me that I read somewhere that that is
>also the minimum amount of data one can put on a DVD.
>Is that correct?
 ...

According to the growisofs page at
<http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/#compat>, some DVD players won't
work properly unless there is 1 GB of data on the DVD.  Many other drives
are smarter, and will be fine with less data.
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