DVD Authoring

[Leigh Honeywell]

John Vetterli wrote:

> On Wed, 18 May 2005, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>
>> 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


Remember that DVD-R is the "real" DVD format; +R's are as I understand 
it a little further from the original DVD-ROM spec.  See the trade page 
at http://www.dvdforum.org/tech-dvdbook.htm

But the flipside is that +RW is apparently a better re-writeable format: 
http://www.videohelp.com/dvd

-Leigh
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