[MacDV] Re: Re making a cross platform dvd

[Erica Sadun]

The DVD standard is platform independent. A DVD made on
a mac should play on macs, pac's and standalone players.
Any PC with a built-in DVD drive should have DVD playback
software installed.

-- Erica


At 6:46 PM -0800 11/18/03, cathal mc carthy wrote:
>thanks Jim
>  The dvd I burned on a mac will not play on a dell pc running win xp.
>What software should the pc have installed on it to play a dvd made on a  mac
>what is the solution?
>Could this be put with the dvd in order that pc users could play same the dvd.
>Thanks so much for the help
>
>On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 05:46 AM, James Asherman wrote:
>
>>
>>On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 04:18  PM, cathal mc carthy wrote:
>>
>>>Thanks everyone
>>>
>>>Whats the best way to make a dvd that will play on a pc and keep 
>>>all the nice idvd settings?
>>
>>
>>Play it on a PC with a DVD player. As Erica said .Use DVD player 
>>software installed on said PC. Don't try to play TS folders with 
>>QuickTime. Don't rename anything after iDVD burns your disk. Wait 
>>until the data is fully encoded from DV (camera. firewire) to Mpeg2 
>>(DVD ) before inserting disk and burning. Beyond that a DVD is 
>>aDVD. Play it with a DVD player whetther standalone or software 
>>based.
>>Jim
>>
>>
>>>On Monday, November 17, 2003, at 05:27 PM, Erica Sadun wrote:
>>>
>>>>>Thanks Erica
>>>>>I have just tried to open a dvd made with idvd 3 and imovie I am 
>>>>>running 10,2.6 on a g4 dual
>>>>>The dvd will not open on a dell running win 98 it gives an error 
>>>>>message saying
>>>>>the video_ts.bup is not a file that quicktime understands.
>>>>
>>>>Use a DVD player program to play back DVDs, not QuickTime.
>>>>
>>>>-- Erica