DVD Authoring

[John Vetterli]

On Wed, 18 May 2005, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 12:34:59AM -0400, John Vetterli wrote:
>> ...  Also, my dvd player seemed to have trouble
>> playing the disc, I don't know if this is because of the authoring method
>> or because it was a crappy disc.
> What type of media?  Remember some dvd players prefer DVD-R, some prefer
> DVD+R and some like nothing but stamped DVDs.  Many players don't like
> any +RW/-RW media.
> I tried making a video DVD+RW and it didn't play well at all (rather
> confused really) a DVD player that was a few years old, while a brand
> new $60 dvd player played it just fine.  Using a DVD-R it worked
> perfectly on both.

It was a DVD+R disc.  My DVD player says it can handle both DVD-R and 
DVD+R (and RW), and the +R discs worked okay with copies of pressed DVDs I 
had made with vobcopy.

(BTW, these copies were of discs I had purchased legally, and the copies 
are for my own personal use.)

JV
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