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

[Malte Gell]

On Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2007, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> 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...

Used -dumpstream dvd://2 but again I can answer myself... checked with 
k3b that actually it IS a dual layer DVD, so, no wonder...