[MacDV] Re: Re making a cross platform dvd

[Erica Sadun]

Your best way to do this is to pay someone to put
your video onto disc--either VCD or DVD.

I'm sure you can find someone to outsource to
at a reasonable price.

Regards, -- Erica



At 9:49 PM -0800 11/19/03, cathal mc carthy wrote:
>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:
>
>>
>>On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 12:14  AM, cathal mc carthy wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>Does it CLAIM to be able to play a DVD?
>>
>>>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
>>
>>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
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>Maybe they don't play DVD's at all.
>>
>>>I have found though that both machines will play a quicktime 
>>>version burned to with roxio onto a video cd however-lower res 
>>>however.
>>
>>Completely different story. Try to get it that DVD's are a 
>>different animal altogether.
>>
>>>My next step is to try an idvd version with roxio 5 in the dvd selection.
>>
>>Toast is only for COPYING  DVD's in 5xx. Complete waste of time.
>>
>>>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!
>>
>>Got NOTHING to do with QuickTime or Mac v PC.
>>Put your DVD in a PS2 and see if it plays.