[MacDV] Re: Playing a Mac generated DVD on Windows XP

[Erica Sadun]

At 7:46 PM -0500 3/14/04, Gerhard Kuhn wrote:
>I believe your PC DVD-rom is at fault.  I have had similar 
>experiences with 3 or year old PC lap-tops they either don't play 
>them or play them but have poor performance (sound drop outs, jerky 
>video etc.).  Compaq Pllls with Toshiba optical drives have spotty 
>performance with -R media.  Probably the same performance issues 
>would be present on desk-tops that are one or two years older than 
>that.

Media is a factor but bitrate is also a factor.
If you want to play back on computers, make sure
you lower that bitrate a lot. iDVD uses 8 Mbps
for its 1-hour videos, a rate that exceeds the
playback capabilities of many computers.

-- Erica


>Gerhard
>
>On Mar 14, 2004, at 6:39 PM, CFlatow wrote:
>
>>Folks,
>>
>>I have a DVD that was clearly created on a Mac (there's a nice 
>>Apple logo on the lower left corner of the opening screen).
>>
>>It opens and plays on my TiBook.
>>It opens and plays on my DVD player connected to my TV set.
>>I can get the opening screen to show up on the InterActual Player 
>>that came with my Windows XP machine, on which I have successfully 
>>played standard DVD movies, but after I click on the opening page 
>>in the InterActual player, instead of the movie, all I get is a 
>>solid blank green screen in the payer window.
>>
>>Does anybody PLEASE have any suggestions what I might use to get it 
>>to play on the Windows machine?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Carl
>>
>Gerhard Kuhn
>suspice at hay.net
>
>
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