DVD is an optical disc storage media format. Compared to CD, DVD offers higher storage capacity with the same dimensions and is widely used by people to store data and information nowadays.
Generally, there are four popular DVD sizes: DVD-5, DVD-9, DVD-10 and DVD-18. Now let's have a look at these different DVD sizes.
DVD-5, DVD-10, DVD-9 and DVD-18
DVD-5: DVD-5 is a single sided single layer disc that can store up to about 4.7 GB = 4 700 000 000 bytes and that is 4.38 computer GigaBytes of data on it. Video DVD, DVD-R/W and DVD+R/W support DVD-5 well.
DVD-9: DVD-9 is a single-sided dual-layer DVD disc that can contain up to 8.5 GB or 7.95 computer GB. It is widely used by commercial video DVDs. It is often used as the marketing term for dual layer DVD-R and DVD+R discs.
After knowing the general information about DVD-5 and DVD-9, if you have interest, you can explore the differences between DVD-5 and DVD9.
DVD-10: From the name, we can know that DVD-10 is a dual-sided DVD-5. Well, DVD-10 is a double sided single layer DVD which can store about 9.4 GB or 8.7 computer GB and is supported by Video DVD, DVD-R/W and DVD+R/W.
DVD-18: DVD-18 is two-sided discs that holds DVD-9 disc on both sides of it. This double sided dual layer DVD can contain up to 17 GB or 15.9 computer GB and the same as DVD-9, widely used by some commercial video DVDs. Note that DVD-18 is not supported by DVD-R/W and DVD+R/W.
Tips about DVD burning, DVD copying and DVD ripping
1. If you want to burn videos to DVD discs, you can use Aimersoft DVD creating software to burn and back up your favorite videos and photos. It is a fast DVD burning software that allows you to burn videos to DVD easily from all popular video and photo formats with delicate DVD menu styles. All popular DVD disc formats like DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DL, DVD-5 and DVD-9, etc. are well supported.
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I believe the "fit to disc" feature is not working properly in either Video converter ultimate or DVD creator. The algorithm or preset in the programs may be incorrect, which does not fit the files into the one disc, be it DVD5 or DVD9. Is there a bug fix planned? From the discussion thread, this has not been resolved properly.
Hi, sorry but the same happens to me, I select D5 DVD and fit to disk option. But DVD Creator, creates an ISO file of 4,808,949,760 bytes. The free space on a DVD D5 is 4,700,372,992. How can we reduce even more the ISO's size? Thanks
Hello, Kevin. In your case, please check the DVD disc capacity first. The capacity less than 4.7 GB is considered as D5 disc while more than 4.7GB and less than 8.5GB is D9 disc.
Above you say that a DVD5 is about 4 700 000 000 bytes, but when i choose DVD5, and fit to disc in Aimersoft DVD Creator, it produces an ISO file of 4,799,500,288 bytes, which does NOT fit on the disk, how can I reduce the size of the ISO to the correct size?