[MPlayer-users] Dump of DVD 5,4 GB, why not 4,7 GB?

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 07:37:17PM +0200, Malte Gell wrote:
> I dumped a DVD with mplayer -dumpstream. The output exactly has 
> 5425139712 Bytes. Shouldn't a DVD only be capable of storing 4,7 GB? It 
> is not a dual layer disc. Was the data somehow compressed on the disc?

How? By doing first -dumpstream dvd://1 then dvd://2 etc? Like that you
could easily get about about 500 GB of data, two different titles can
reference the same video data...

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger