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What is your question in regards to eDVD4? For the time being, and probably for some time in the future, it is the defacto option for adding interactive ROM contact with a DVD video project (at least for the ‘masses’). It’s a fairly straight forward app, once you understand the process of how it works and interacts with your dvd video.
Jim
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Dan,
What authoring application are you using?
Do you have DAVE, MacLan, or Mac Opener on your PC? You need to have one of these apps to preserve the resource forks required for some Mac files to work. One can run into a similar issue using eDVD and having the discs play properly on a Mac. For folders to launch, or Mac executables; the resource forks must be maintained. Importing the ROM content over to a Mac (on a PC formatted drive) and including the contents of the folder in Toast or pointing DVDSP to the ROM folder will preserve the resource forks. Of course if you didn’t author with DVDSP you can’t use that app, and Toast won’t help with DLT output. I have used Data Viz Mac Opener and wasn’t happy with it and currently use MacDrive. I don’t do Mac/PC ROM discs on a PC (I output to recordable with Toast or use DVDSP for other), so I don’t know how well that app (MacDrive6) would work (it’s not listed as one of the suggested apps in Sonic’s manual).
Jim
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You can download and trial eDVD 4 and see if it does what you want. If you are looking for such an option (ie launching an exec from a dvd video), there is nothing better out there than eDVD. There are no authoring apps on the PC side of things that can offer such a reliable solution. Apple’s DVDSP has DVD@ccess, and IMO, doesn’t come near to eDVD in reliability–especially on a PC.
Jim
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Ahhh, I see, thanks.
eDVD 4 should be able to allow for dvd-video menu launching of the executable. To have it work on a PC and a Mac it would have to be mastered on a Mac.
Jim
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Can you explain a bit further what you mean by a ‘director’s file’? Are you talking about a version of your video with director’s commentary, or something different?
Jim
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Mike,
Just to elaborate a bit more on David’s post. The dvd spec doesn’t allow for PAL and NTSC to be within the same project/disc. It can be one or the other, not both. Hence, you either need to provide a copy of each–separate single sided discs, or a double sided disc. I have created several of those in the past, and I would share your concern about fingerprints, scratches, and the like. You can’t print on either side, so there is no clear way of telling the user which side to put in. The clear hub center might be a place to use one of the small hub labels, but I’m not too keen on using labels on discs–especially double sided ones. They are basically two single sided discs bonded to each other. They are heavier, and unless you are getting top notch quality discs, I think they have a tendency to spin improperly, or at least they would have a greater chance of it (esp with labels) to spin out of true because of weight distribution. Many set top player in ‘PAL’ land cand read NTSC discs just fine, but I think it’s your call as to how much of a risk that would be. The converse is definitely not true, most players in ‘NTSC-land’ don’t read PAL discs.
Jim
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It looks to me that they are offering the same non-printable versions I’ve seen elsewhere, although the price is a bit better. When the +DL discs came out last year, it took about 6 months or more for the printable versions to arrive (although they were ‘coming soon’ for some time before that). Maybe they will be quicker to arrive than their +DL counterparts.
Jim
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Phil,
I posted on the DVDSP forum to the same question.
Jim
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Verbatim has had a recordable DL DVD-R out for about a month, but I haven’t seen any versions of the same that are printable. If you have a link where one can buy a printable version for the DL DVD-R I’d be interested.
Jim
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I would avoid Ritek DL for now, I’ve heard of a lot of complaints with that brand. Verbatim has had a good track record with +DL (the -DL is too new to know how it’s performing), and printable versions of the +DL variety are available now. I don’t know how long it will take for printable versions of -DL to hit the markets, but it was several months for the +DL.
Jim