[MPlayer-users] Subject: Making a DVD backup - Need advice

[Loren Merritt]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Martin Collins wrote:

>> I do care about filesize, 4485 MB
>> is the max since the avi should fit on a dvd5.
>
> Hopefully someone will tell me I'm wrong but last time I checked it
> was impossible to write files bigger than 2GB to a DVD using Linux
> unless you use ext2fs or another Unix filesystem. Even commercial
> UDF DVDs split the files into 1GB chunks. Just thought I'd mention it,
> might save you wasting a few discs like I did.

I have successfully written a 3700MB file to DVD using growisofs with UDF.
I didn't have to do anything special.

--Loren Merritt