Archaic wrote:
Of the competing standards out there, which is most likely to actually
play in an older stand-alone dvd player for a TV (not a computer DVD
drive)? I have the ability to burn in +/-r if single layer, or +r if
dual layer. Many of the movies I have are over 4.7 GB so they are dual
layer and the older/cheaper DVD players play them fine, yet I have read
that +r could be problematic compatability-wise.
Sorry for breaking threading, my server is being relocated, reading by
newgroup. I've read that DVD+R has better compatibility, but the test
results were marginal. IIRC DVD+R play in 85% of current DVD players, while
DVD-R play in 75%. This was from a forum on digital video that I used to
frequent and was current as of 2002 IIRC. BTW, from your other post, if you
happen to be using bc to determine a tcrequant factor for DVD9-DVD5
conversion, I put together a nice dvd2dvdr script that has worked for around
40 or so backups (main title only). The math is convoluted to say the
least, but done in pure bash. :-) Only my newer movies it don't work for
because of some new copy protection, so those three aren't on the DVD
rack...away from the rug rats. Uses these programs (from the config file):
DA=/usr/bin/dvdauthor
EJECT=/usr/bin/eject
GI=/usr/bin/growisofs
MI=/usr/bin/mkisofs
MP=/usr/bin/mplayer
MPLEX=/usr/bin/mplex
TCP=/usr/bin/tcprobe
TCR=/usr/bin/tcrequant
Reply here if you'd like a copy of it as my server is down till I get back
down south to fix the DSL tomorrow evening (it's pretty large for the list).
I need to get around to seting up a backup MX and maybe rsync here I
think....or just move it back here but I absolutely hate CenturyTel.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l dvd2dvd*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13436 May 29 01:52 dvd2dvd
-rw-r--r-- 1 dj dj 405 May 28 23:54 dvd2dvd.conf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#
-- DJ Lucas
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