OT: Creating a PC Compatible DVD...

[Stephen Barncard]

Don't just throw a MPEG2 file in a folder and burn; you need to set 
it up to be a DVD-video disk,  then it will play anywhere, especially 
on component DVD systems. If you can make one that plays on a 
standard DVD video player, it should play on computers.

Toast and Dragon Burn have been able to do this for years.

Free software that can do the same
http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/




>Well... I guess I scared myself when it wouldn't work in 
>Parallels... I have a DVD that was already burned on a PC that I 
>want to dupe.  I have an Intel MacBook running 10.5.5 on which I 
>duped the DVD using Disk Utility.
>
>I tried the new DVDs in Parallels running XP to see if they would 
>read and they didn't.  When I looked on the Internet I found the 
>issues around DVD-R vs DVD+R as well as the issues around MPEG2 not 
>being readable on most PCs.  I didn't find much consensus on a Mac 
>solution...
>
>I assumed, correctly or not, that if the DVDs did not work on 
>Parallels then in all likelihood they would not work on any PC.  I'm 
>preparing to send the duped DVDs to a prospective client who is 
>located in another city and I don't want them to call me to say they 
>couldn't read the DVDs...
>
>Of course the easy way is to take them downtown and have a service 
>dupe the original but I want to do it on my Mac, to prove a point if 
>nothing else...
>

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stephen barncard
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