RE: [Dvdrtools-users] dvd+r/+rw video support ???

[Scott Prive]

Hi Sergio,

Send this information to the list. I am not a developer, and I could only 
answer the question about DVD-Video support (which is "yes", if the files are 
valid DVD-Video).

A lot of people mistake DVD-Video as being some special format... "I have some 
MPEG video now how do I burn it as DVD Video". This is of course the wrong 
question. Perhaps the dvd+rw-tools FAQ could be worded better (I've never read 
it), but if dvd+rw-tools burns data like dvdrtools does, it will burn prepared 
DVD-Video data.

To fully understand the DVD-Video file format, you would need to read up on the 
.IFO file format. You should not need to do this *if* you are certain the 
VIDEO_TS/AUDIO_TS dirs you have are correctly formatted. 

This is important to know, because a badly formatted DVD will be rejected by 
your player in EXACTLY the same manner as unreadable media. DVD Video players 
have poor error reporting.

-Scott



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sergio Chong [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 11:49 AM
> To: Scott Prive
> Subject: RE: [Dvdrtools-users] dvd+r/+rw video support ???
> 
> 
> Hi:
> 
>     Thanks a lot for replying, I already read about
> that somewhere... my problem is that dvdrtools won't
> work for me because my writer (hp 200i) can only write
> on dvd+r/+rw media and dvdrtools is known to work only
> on dvd-r/-rw discs (as I've read). The only software
> that has successfully worked for me is dvd+rw-tools.
> 
>     Here is what I did, I successfully generated a
> dvd-5 image with mkisofs from a mounted dvd. Then,
> since dvdrtools could not write to the media (please
> let me know if you need the error output), I used
> dvd+rw-tools which "burned" the image with no problems
> (the image was successfully checked with isoinfo).
> Once the writing process was done, I mounted the dvd
> and everything was in place, like in the original dvd;
> but once I tried to play it, the player (mplayer in
> the computer and a sony ns400d known to read dvd+r/+rw
> discs) didn't recognize it.
> 
>     In addition to that, the first thing the
> dvd+rw-tools FAQ tells you is that is NOT for video,
> so  I thought that was the problem.
> 
>     Any hint?
> 
>                Thank you very much anyway
> 
>                   Sergio Chong
> 
> 
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