[MacDV] PC Compatibility with iDVD produced DVD

[Erica Sadun]

At 9:41 AM +0900 9/15/03, Daniel Beck wrote:
>I was asked to make a DVD out of footage my friend took on a MiniDV 
>camera. I captured it with FCP and marked chapters and exported it 
>as a FCP movie. Then imported it into iDVD3 with no trouble. After 
>burning it on my 12" PowerBook, it worked fine on my PowerBook. 
>However, I received this message from him today:
>
>Begin message:
>
>>  the DVD didn't work on my computer. Other DVD'S are fine. It's
>>XP (which helps to explain a lot). Is it looking for some kind of init-
>>ization file(s)? Neither PowerDVD nor Windows Media Player recognized
>>that there was a disc in the drive. What next?
>>I'll try the DVD in a regular player this coming week.
>
>Anyone know why his PC didn't recognize it? Should it?

Probably the brand of media and the reflectivity of
the his DVD laser.

-- Erica