How much can a DVD recordable hold?

Question

I have some dvds that has 4.7 GB on them but has 120 mins. I have at least 40, 20 mintute videos which is only 1 gb all together. Will all these videos fit on my disk.

Answer 1

You'll be able to fit all 40+ movies only if it's formatted as a data disc, in which case it'll act like a storage device and you won't be able to play anything from it. Unfortunately for burning DVDs and CDs, in order to be able to play them, you have to go by the length listed not the size.

Answer 2

40 videos of 20 minutes each equals 800 minutes, or more than 13 hours of video. As a Video DVD which will play on any (most) DVD players, they will need to be transcoded to the format recognizable by those players. And a 4.7GB disc only holds 2 hours worth of that format. The transcoded size of your 40 videos would be over 32GB.



If you were to create simply a Data DVD of your video files, maintaining their current total of 1GB, then they would fit well on your 4.7GB disc. But they would not play on any DVD player, only on your computer (and most other computers). The reason is that computers hold more software (codecs) that can translate and play a wide variety of formats than DVD players can.

Answer 3

You should know, 4.7gb is data dvd limit, 120mins video dvd limit. If you just want to burn these videos on a DVD disk as a data dvd for backup, you just need to keep the total size of all videos lower than disk capability(4.7gb), don't care about the 120mins time limit, your videos is only 1gb all together, so you can use any data dvd burning software directly burn all videos onto a 4.7gb dvd disk as a data dvd, like, I'm using RZ Free DVD Burner, it's free and easy to use, it can directly burn any files or folders to any DVD disk as data dvd, just run RZ Free DVD Burner, select "Data Burn" mode to burn, and then you can open the burned data dvd on computer, but can't play data DVD on DVD player.



Or if you want to burn these videos on a DVD disk as a video DVD that can be played well on DVD player, you should care about the 4.7gb size limit and 120mins time limit, because usually video DVD limit the total length of all videos lower than 120mins, but now with some better software, you can expand this limit, like I'm using RZ DVD Creator, it can fit/burn long videos into a video DVD, it can auto fit the size, such as convert 800mins videos to a video DVD and burn onto a 4.7gb dvd disk, easy to use, insert a 4.7gb DVD disk into your comptuer dvd burner drive, run RZ DVD Creator, select the dvd burner drive as target folder, directly drag and drop all videos into the software, if you view a message tip "Source DVD size is larger than CD/DVD disc capacity", simply press "Yes", at last press START button, the software will compress and convert all videos to a video DVD and burn into the inserted 4.7gb DVD disk, and you can play the burned video DVD well on your DVD players. But you should note, fit too many videos onto a video DVD will reduce the quality alot, according to my experience, 120-240 mins videos is the good range for a video DVD on a 4.7gb dvd disk.



You can yahoo or google search and download RZ Free DVD Burner or RZ DVD Creator, both easy to use , hope them could help you.

Answer 4

The DVD will hold 120min of .vob format video( .vob is the standard DVD video format)or 4.7GB of data.If your videos are only 1GB all together it is OK they will fit on the disk!