burned DVD's

Carnage7p · Post by **Carnage7p** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 12:09 am

has anyone had problems with playing a dvd that they burned in their dvd player. i've heard of this happening and i wanted to check it out before i get a burner for myself.

TimXL1 · Post by **TimXL1** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 12:31 am

I have created some DVDs with iDVD on my Mac, burned onto DVD-R media and played them without problems on players by Pioneer and Goodmans. It depends on the media you choose, there is a great explanation of all the different types here. The most compatible with set-top DVD players is probably DVD-R and Apple provide a handy list of compatible players here.

Carnage7p · Post by **Carnage7p** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 1:29 am

thanks for the web links. it helped a lot.

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 12:49 pm

This is a good resource for all DVD burning topics

DVD Help

[Edited on 23-9-2003 by Adam]

foxwood · Post by **foxwood** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 4:26 pm

Some players just have shitty codecs, I know for a fact that like a Playstation 2 won't pay anything but a "real" DVD. But I haven't had a problem of my DVD's not working.

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 4:59 am

You gotta find a dvd writer with nice codec options.

A LOT of dvd player have trouble reading the DVD-RWs. If you can't get a RW to work, try using a DVD-R. That solved most of my problems.

Remember... DVD-R for movies. DVD+R for data.

foxwood · Post by **foxwood** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 3:18 pm

Well I haven't had much troble with things reading my DVD's only the PS2 refused to read. I have a DVD player that won't read VCDs but it played the DVD just fine. And the X-box that didn't paly VCDs also played the DVD. We only have consols to play DVDs here at college because nobody brought with them a real DVD player.

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 6:10 am

If it works, it works...

Mushiman · Post by **Mushiman** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 8:35 am

"I know for a fact that like a Playstation 2 won't pay anything but a "real" DVD"
Well here in the UK, the Playstation 2 plays our burned DVD's.

epsonink · Post by **epsonink** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 12:56 am

Yes, I also own a dvd player and I was wondering, if I burnt a dvd from a movie renting store like blockbuster or something, would they be able to tell that I burnt it so that they can track me down and throw me into jail, or does it have a protector on it that makes it impossible for me to copy it? If you know please tell because I dont want to copy one and then having them know.

Carnage7p · Post by **Carnage7p** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 2:14 am

we're not really supposed to talk about piracy issues cause we dont want to get matt in trouble.

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 8:00 am

Let's not do that!

Just don't do something stupid that could land you in jail.

Carnage7p · Post by **Carnage7p** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 11:50 am

except somehow we supposrt DVD ripping which is illegal unless it's your own copy. hmm ? ? ? ?

epsonink · Post by **epsonink** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 8:12 pm

oh, ok. I understand