[MacDV] Re: Re making a cross platform dvd

[cathal mc carthy]

I finally solved the problem why a five year old dell pc won't play a 
mac written dvd
simply because it didn't have dvd player called cinemaster 98 (that 
came with the pc) installed on it. Once I installed this software the 
mac made dvd played crystal clear including slideshows created with 
idvd. It looked really good on a 5 yr old dell monitor.
Strange how windows media player in an xp machine doesn't recognise the 
mac dvd?
I will install the dvd player there also and see if it works
I would not have solved this without the list!

Happy Christmas
Cathal
On Friday, November 21, 2003, at 09:12 AM, Michael Winter wrote:

>
> On Nov 7, 2003, at 10:19 AM, Peter van der Linden wrote:
>
>> On Nov 21, 2003, at 3:35 PM, cathal mc carthy wrote:
>>
>>> Question why do commercially made dvds work on both mac and pc when 
>>> a dvd burned on the mac will not open on a win xp that can play 
>>> commercial dvds?
>>
>> Because the standards aren't perfect?  Because of software bugs (as 
>> you saw on win 98)?   Because your software isn't fully up to date?
>
> Also because not all DVD players can handle "burned" vs. "pressed" 
> disks. Unfortunately, it even comes down to the media itself 
> sometimes. Its possible the brand of DVD media you have won't work 
> with the Dell, but if you burned the same movie using a different 
> brand of DVD media it might work. If the DVD works in a stand-alone 
> DVD player, I'd tend to blame the Dell drive or the combination of the 
> Dell drive and that brand of media.
>
> Also, before filing a bug report with Apple, I'd check with Dell to 
> make sure their drive can read homemade DVDs.
>
> -Mike
>
>
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