Posted by Dave on 03/08/06 13:11

On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 08:58:19 GMT, root <NoEMail@home.org> wrote:

>I use Panasonic brand dvd-ram disks on my Panasonic DMR. Out
>of the box most of the ram disks have a capacity of 4:00 hours
>in the LP mode. However, some of the disks have 4:14 which
>is much more useful when recording movies which usually
>fill a 2 hour time slot and run over a minute or so.
>
>I found that if the Panasonic blanks are formatted in a Toshiba
>recorder the can be made to have the extra 14 minutes, while
>the Panasonic recorder always formats to exactly 4 hours.

Times on a RAM disc are always approximate, and depend on the amount
of compression, and that in turn depends to some extent on picture
content.

Does you Panny recorder have an "FR", or flexible recording, setting?
That will fit a recording into the space left on a disc at the best
(highest) bit rate possible.

HTH
--
Dave
Sheffield, England, UK
dave@gnudawn.co.uk
http://www.gnudawn.co.uk/

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