[MacDV] Re: PC Compatibility with iDVD produced DVD

[James Asherman]

On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 12:00 AM, Daniel Beck wrote:

>
> On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 12:31 PM, Ron Woodland wrote:
>
>> Yes, it should recognize it.  All I know is that I've burned dozens 
>> of projects to DVDs using iDVD.  They have worked fine on a few PCs 
>> I've tried them on, but that's not really important.  More important, 
>> they have worked without fail in every DVD player I've ever tried 
>> them on, or for those to whom I've sent them.
>>
>> If some guy's wintel computer using XP can't run DVDs made on a Mac 
>> that comply with published standards, guess who's problem it is.
>>
>> No help, or sympathy for your friend, here.  Maybe he should check 
>> his config.sys.  (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
>
> No need to be hostile toward him. He uses his PCs to run Linux & Unix. 
> He tried to use XP so he could watch the DVD on it. I think his main 
> intent is to watch it on his home player, and that should work fine. 
> He was just informing me of his inability, not getting on my case for 
> it. He's just as critical of M$ as anyone I know.
>
> I was just trying to find out if others have had trouble. Thanks for 
> letting me know that you haven't.
>
> I think that Erica may be right, some kind of combination of media (I 
> did use a cheapie for this) and laser. Anyway it plays fine on my 
> PowerBook and on my home player (old Sony model), so it'll probably 
> work fine on his home player.
>
> Daniel
>

Erica is right. I have even burned the same DVD with Toast on multiple 
brands of DVD (all exactly the same stuff) and had one brand play and 
the other fail in the living room.
Jim