[MacDV] Re: PC Compatibility with iDVD produced DVD

[Daniel Beck]

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