[ale] Why the difference in data size? (Ripping movies?)

[Scott Castaline]

On 03/22/2010 09:37 PM, Rich Faulkner wrote:
> Amen brother.  We hid all of our DVD's and have got the kids hooked on
> our streaming queue for Netflix.  Now our media isn't getting raped by the
> trolls on a daily basis.
>
> Is the DVD in question a movie disk (not data disk?)  I'm interested as I
> have a mountain of media to rip to our soon-to-be-built media server
> (Linux of course!)    --Rich
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Bronosky"<Richard at Bronosky.com>
> To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!"<ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 8:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] Why the difference in data size?
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>
>> What DVD? The makers of movie DVDs do all kinds of foolery to stop
>> honest people from recording copies of movies that remove the 8 minute
>> entry times. The scoundrels who make children's DVDs are the worst.
>> They want your kids to destroy the disks and demand replacements. They
>> want your kids to have to sit through commercials. They want families
>> to die in automobile accidents while parents try to navigate DVDs for
>> their toddlers.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Scott Castaline<skotchman at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Running F12 Gnome desktop, property for a loaded DVD indicates 29.3GB
>>> iso file is 7.5GB. Anybody know why? The iso seems to play okay, but I'm
>>> wondering what's missing and how can the DVD be reporting that much?
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The last StarTrek Movie, StarTrek 11. I tried playing the iso in VLC and 
it started with no problem. Didn't watch the whole thing through yet.