Dvd issue

[Peter Berthet]

Its true but andrew has demonstrated he has in fact burnt successfully a DVD which will play on 3 of 4 machines by my count.

Suggesting that he author the disc again at a lower speed is a waste of his time and media.
While its true that faster burn speeds can generate coasters Logic concludes that if 3 of 4 machines play the disc then the 4th machine, in this case the Sony; is at fault; not the disc.

Given that i spent 6 years selling the things from their early stages when they ALL refused to play home-brew discs (excluding discs authored in the sony machine); Its a safe bet that andrew hasnt done anything wrong and his client is simply guilty of not updating their player.

In fact the only early run machines to play 3rd party or home authored DVDs were the Panasonics and some pioneer models; Sony have ALWAYS been a pain in the arse with copy protection on their hardware, punishing the end-user rather than stopping piracy.

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[George Socka]

AFAIK the burning program built into XP does not finalize the DVD, so that you can record more onto it. Great if it is going to be used on another computer. Some DVD players will play the thing without it being finalized ( I admit that after many years of doing this I still do not know exactly what happens at the physical file level when a disk is finalized) And why some devices finalize in seconds and others take 20 minutes.

The client’s DVD Recorder knows about finalized versus not finalized and is thrown for a look expecting its own version of an open project. I have seen the same thing if you move an open DVD project from one brand of recorder to another

I have never found any way to force XP to finalize.

Thus the suggestion to buy Nero of any of the Sonic DVD burning programs. $50 at best buy.

Or use DVD+RW media which does not need finalizing, but older players, and again recorders that do not do RW ( don’t have the RW logo) will choke.

George Socka
BeachDigital
http://www.beachdigital.com