Posted by Alpha on 11/06/05 21:20

"Colon Terminus" <Colon_Terminus@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Alpha" <none@none.net> wrote in message
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>> "Adrian" <anca@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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>> > Alpha wrote:
>> >> "Adrian" <anca@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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>> >>> marks542004@yahoo.com wrote:
>> >>>> My understanding is that a single layer DVD will contain 2 hours of
>> >>>> video. Depending on what else is being stuck on the disk that figure
>> >>>> might vary a few minutes.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> try www.govideo.com for technical support.
>> >>>
>> >>> That should read, your misunderstanding. DVDs contain data which may
>> >>> or may
>> >>> not be video, which, if the data rate is low enough could be up to
>> >>> six hours.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> What? If it is a DVD video it must contain video. If it is DVD
>> >> data, then are you talking about raw Mpeg files?
>> >
>> > Data is data, it makes no difference whether it's video or otherwise.
> The
>> > only important thing as far as DVD Video is concerned is the file
>> > structure
>> > of the disc.
>>
>> I suggest you read DVD Demystified. To say data is data is true...but
> your
>> extrapolation is, well, stupid.
>>
>>
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> Alpha ... you're way off base here. I doubt that anyone here is actually
> stupid, just ignorant. Ignorance can be cured by education but there is no
> cure for stupidity. Here's a little education for you.
>
> DVD's hold a binary representation of something ... it doesn't care what,
> just a buncha one's and zeroes. This can be a few minutes of raw
> uncompressed video, a 3 hour compressed movie, 4.5 gigs of wareZ or your
> granny's recipes. Neither the disc nor the recorder care one way or the
> other.

All obvious. However the player DOES care, and there are significant
differences in TOC and overhead elements between raw data formats and video
discs. That is all I am saying. Data is data - how brilliant a tautology.

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