[MacDV] Re: dvd to vcd question

Erica Sadun erica at mindspring.com
Fri May 30 15:24:11 PDT 2003


>On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 06:14  PM, Donna B wrote:
>
>>on 5/30/03 5:31 PM, Jim Asherman at jimash at optonline.net scripsit:
>>
>>>
>>>maybe find someone close by with a superdrive and copy it and fix
>>>wghtver's wrong.
>>>
>>what is wrong?
>>I don't know much about dvds. What breaks to make it not show?
>>
>
>It is possible to get the file structure wrong,( name 
>folder/VideoTSFolder/various mysterious "VOB" files) It is possible 
>that the content would fare better on a different brand or type of 
>media, there being as we have discussed, at least 4 types of 
>recordable DVD going around.
>I recently have seen the same content made on the same machine , 
>play easily with one brand of disc but give the "no disc" message 
>with another. This DVD stuff can get tricky.
>But someone with a superdrive and toast could maybe fix it.
>Jim


No Disc is almost always dye components.   This can change
by Mfgr *or* by batch...


-- Erica



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