[MacDV] Re: Re making a cross platform dvd

[cathal mc carthy]

Thanks for the help james and all
 From the mac support forum toast has been suggested by a good few 
people as a way of overcoming cross platform issues.
my basic problem is that I want to send out a video on a disc with good 
res and quality that will be playable in a high percentage of pcs an 
dvds

What is  ultimately the best way to do this?
It is great to be finally getting some answers to these questions. 
Roxio support don't support!
On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 04:34 PM, James Asherman wrote:

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> On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 12:14  AM, cathal mc carthy wrote:
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>> Thanks so much folks
>> I am slowly getting to the bottom of it
>> Here is what I am 100% sure of
>> a dvd made with idvd and apple dvd-r will not play on a brand new 
>> dell pc  with win xp  with a dvd rom in it.
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> Does it CLAIM to be able to play a DVD?
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>> It won't play on an older dell pc with win 98 on it either.  It can't 
>> read the bup.ts folders at al
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> When you play a DVD , unless it is on your Hrd drive you just pllay it 
> you don't go navigating the foders.
> In any case the folders should just say  Video-TS and Audio-TS
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>> l and wants to go searching for it on the net These machines do not 
>> seem to have the necessary dvd software to play the mac burned dvds.
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> Maybe they don't play DVD's at all.
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>> I have found though that both machines will play a quicktime version 
>> burned to with roxio onto a video cd however-lower res however.
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> Completely different story. Try to get it that DVD's are a different 
> animal altogether.
>
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>> My next step is to try an idvd version with roxio 5 in the dvd 
>> selection.
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> Toast is only for COPYING  DVD's in 5xx. Complete waste of time.
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>> It just seems that in pcs while they all practically will have 
>> quicktime very few seem to have the dvd software to play a mac made 
>> dvd which is a real pity as the idvd themes are so nice!
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> Got NOTHING to do with QuickTime or Mac v PC.
> Put your DVD in a PS2 and see if it plays.
>
>> On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 11:00 AM, Erica Sadun wrote:
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