dvd9 movie disc appears to have 45gb of content

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  1. mapper

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    Has anyone seen movies which are burned onto a standard dual-layer dvd9 disc and which should contain 7.x gigs of files show up in Windows 7 Explorer as containing up to 45+ gb of contents? Is this new copy protection or just a Win 7 bug? Many .vobs seem to be shadow duplicated which probably accounts for Win 7's erroneous read and listing.
    When I made an image (.iso or .nrg) file from the disc and then mounted it with Daemon Tools it still appeared to be 45gb.
     
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    It's a form of protection used in some commercial movie DVDs.
    Once the disk is decrypted with the likes of DVDFab HD Decrypter, the anomaly vanishes.
     
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    Thanks attar,
    Yes, ripping with anydvd to hd seems to fix it. It now reports an expected # of vobs and hence the size is in range of a DVD9.
     

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