[wplug] DVD compatibility

[Vanco, Don]

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>From: wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org 
>[mailto:wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org] On 
>Behalf Of Bill Moran
>Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 2:33 PM
>To: wplug at wplug.org
>Subject: [wplug] DVD compatibility
>
>
>
>Anyone out there have any experience burning DVD that are 
>compatible with
>DVD readers?
>
>We recently purchased a LiteOn DVD burner, and a stack of blank DVD-R.
>After about a month of using it, we came to realize that the 
>only device
>that can read _any_ of the burned DVDs is the burner that made them, of
>two other DVD readers, neither can read the DVDs.  Both of 
>these readers
>are able to grok standard pressed DVDs without problem.
>
>We've tried the following:
>1) Bought more DVD-Rs.  This time, name brand ones.  Same problem.
>2) Tried creating an ISO image under FreeBSD and burning that (as
>   opposed to letting Nero create everything).  Same problem.
>3) Updated the firmware, no change.
>4) Twiddled around with the infinite settings under Nero in an attempt
>   to make DVDs compatible.  Nothing helped.
>
>Any suggestions?  This is pretty frustrating.
	What are you trying to burn?  Is this data or a "DVD Movie"?  I
have seen issues in Nero where (for whatever reason) you had to check
"X-Box Compatibility" - but that was a few releases back.  I use the
TiVo tools to make the .IFO files and burn on Windoze via Nero - works
pretty OK for me.