I forwarded the message to friend of mine who does professional DVD authoring. This is his response. 1. $1 DVDs suck. (He is highly exagerating too, the cheapest are about $5-and they suck too). As a rule of thumb, the cheaper the media the less players it will work on. Pioneer media is the most expensive (still about $15 a disc when you buy in bulk) and will work on virtually everything but not these http://www.dvdmadeeasy.com/subscriber/compatibility/media/media_a_r.html 2. If he is on a Pioneer burner (which is probable) he is using A03 burner (those are the ones that do the DVD-R and DVD-RW). A03 won't work with the sucky $5 general purpose DVD-Rs (as opposed to authoring DVD-Rs). A03 burned discs also have more compatibility issues than A02 discs (the burner I have). 3. If he is using a VCD as a master he is using MPEG-1 (the codec VCD uses) not MPEG-2 (the codec for DVD). Also, the maximum data rate for a DVD is about 9 megabits per second. The maximum data rate for VCD is 3.5 megabits per second. Also, the screen resolution for a VCD is 352x240 (half-res). DVD is full-res at 720x480. 4. If he doesn't realize this stuff, there are about 100 other things he does not know, so I bet he can't encode very well either.
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Bennett [mailto:christopher_m_bennett@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 3:06 PM To: klf@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Becoming OT Re: [KLF] VCD
Well..I can get DVD R discs for about USD $1 a piece.. hmm..I think more DVD players than imaginable can read DVD+R http://www.vcdhelp.com/dvdplayers.php?DVDname=&DVDselect=&dvdr =1&Submit=Search&Search=Search
The real problem would be transferring a 4.7Gb image to you for burning! ;)
--- Thomas Touzimsky <thomas@klf.de> wrote:
I got a DVD+RW burner that can burn both DVD+RW and DVD+R... problem is that not all players can read DVD+R standard, and the empty discs are quite expensive compared to CDs...
Wasn´t able to create a video DVD with Nero, but they say that Nero can´t handle this that good anyway. Maybe I´ll try out Ulead´s tool...
cy@ Thomas
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