DVD burner help

[spiffydinosaur]

Anyone have a recomendation of the best DVD burner for DVD player compatability.  My DVD player won't play the VCD's I have been burning so time to get a DVD burner.

Spiffy :-)

[Oli_hd]

Hi,

Anyone have a recomendation of the best DVD burner for DVD player compatability. My DVD player won't play the VCD's I have been burning so time to get a DVD burner.

The problem is DVD's are stored in UDF format, The Amiga can read them using Allegro or directly by the DVD player (Amp) but there is not a UDF system which supports writing to the disc  :-(

PS: If your DVD player supports DVD RAM thats the most compatiable standard (It acts just like a harddrive, You can boot off it, drag and drop files to it, etc, etc) however most DVD players dont support DVD RAM discs  :-(
As for DVDR's, Sorry, pass, Im not that loaded  ;-)

[mpdox]

Oli_hd wrote:
Hi,

Anyone have a recomendation of the best DVD burner for DVD player compatability. My DVD player won't play the VCD's I have been burning so time to get a DVD burner.

The problem is DVD's are stored in UDF format, The Amiga can read them using Allegro or directly by the DVD player (Amp) but there is not a UDF system which supports writing to the disc  :-(

PS: If your DVD player supports DVD RAM thats the most compatiable standard (It acts just like a harddrive, You can boot off it, drag and drop files to it, etc, etc) however most DVD players dont support DVD RAM discs  :-(
As for DVDR's, Sorry, pass, Im not that loaded  ;-)

What? DVD RAM is not even DVD... Don't be confused by the name... It was a stupid attempt by Panasonic to control the market and I'm glad is dead... No DVD player in the world would read a DVD RAM... Physically it can't...

The question now is what standard will win. DVD-R/W supported by Pioneer and Apple or DVD+R/W supported by HP, Philips, Microsoft !!!

Regarding the question, why not buy the latest drive from Sony, I don't know the model but it writes and reads both standards.

As for the player, the ones built in the last year or so won't have a problem to read it...

[jd997uk]

Check here and see if your player is listed as being able to playback VCD's. It's not unusual for players to reject anything other than original DVD's.
A general rule of thumb is the cheaper the player, the more compatable it is.

There may also be an 'unlock' code to enable (S)VCD playback, or, in some cases, a firmware update. These are also listed.

What model DVD player do you have?
Additionally, certain burning software is better that others a preserving things like chapter settings, etc.
What are you using to burn your VCD's with?

-john

[Oli_hd]

Hi,

What? DVD RAM is not even DVD... Don't be confused by the name

That really does depend on how you define DVD, It can read DVD's, It writes to a special media (Same as DVD RW) but it is a DVD (my drive reads and writes 2.7Gig and 5.2Gig discs, other DVD RAM drives can record up to 9.2Gig)
As for it being a dead standard, Well it may not be up to DVD R which can be used in normal DVD drives but it works much much better than any DVD writer or even CD writer than I have seen.
Although I am guessing you dont like it   :-)

It was a stupid attempt by Panasonic to control the market and I'm glad is dead...

Wow, less of the attitude guy.

No DVD player in the world would read a DVD RAM... Physically it can't...

Well all DVD recorders can (the domestic units which are like VCR's) and quite a few Panasonic ones can read type 2 discs (Which can be removed from there caddy)
Have a look in your local catalog shop at the DVD recorders and reply  :-P

Anyway I like DVD RAM, best standard yet I think, And you can still get them too.

[strobe]

He wants to burn discs which can be read by DVD players. This means DVD-R ONLY. Not DVD-RAM, not DVD+R, not DVD-RW. You also need good software to prepare the data in a format the DVD player can read, like DVD Studio Pro.

Anything other than DVD-R is pretty much useless anyway. Optical media is too slow to be useful for backing up data and for $5-10 per 4.7Gig it isn't cheap either. Not that 4.7Gig is a lot to begin with, that's only 90mins of compressed video. Pretty pathetic.

[spiffydinosaur]

@ Strobe

That is more like what I am asking. The thing that has been confusing me, is these recorders that record 4 or 5 different formats. Do I need one of those or can I get a basic DVD R/RW recorder.

I have read were some DVD-R's arn't as compatable as others. Is that related to software? I have DVDit LE with SE on the way. I have heard this is good software, yes?

I guess it would help to tell what I just built. I know it's not Amiga but my my A600 is not quite up to the task. OS4 isn't ready and I can't wait for ever.
Here it is:
Taken from my post in Carls thread about new hardware.

AOpen AX4B-533 Plus ( has combo DMAATA 133/ Serial ATA controller )
P4 2.4 Ghz 512K ( I know it's the bad guys )
Matrox G550 display card
Matrox RTX10 video editing card
1 Gb PC2100 ram
2 ATA133 60 GB drived as video RAID
1 40 GB system drive
USB keyboard
Jamstudio tablet ( driver needs more features ) I can't yell to loud it was $16.00 new. If you run LINUX there are drivers for it out there, heck it's a good cheap tablet.
AOpen case model CS-PC3130
Then put my old CD burner and media reader in. Much quicker than my old K62-500. If it only ran Amiga OS instead of eXcrement Project pro it would be acceptable.
 

Thanks for the help.

Spiffy  :-)

[AmiDog]

DVD-R and DVD+RW is supposed to have about the same compatibility with DVD-players.

4.7GB DVD-R sell for 1 USD (9 SEK) here in Sweden, ofcourse you can get a DVD-R for as much as 10 USD if you buy some expensive brands... The cheap DVD-R's work fine with the PS2, XBOX, etc as well.

[Madgun68]

4.7GB DVD-R sell for 1 USD (9 SEK) here in Sweden, ofcourse you can get a DVD-R for as much as 10 USD if you buy some expensive brands... The cheap DVD-R's work fine with the PS2, XBOX, etc as well.

You do want to be careful with cheap media though. I've tried to copy a couple of my movies to see how it'd turn out, and they start to stutter at about 30 minutes in.