Thank you Dane for the information and Scott for asking a question I long thought about how to ask. I also have a few additional questions. 1. Is it true you can store four gb of document files such as doc, rtf etc on a dvdrw? 2. If I have a movie someone has sent me via email or put on site for me to download, can I paste it onto a dvdrw and then view it on a standard dvd player hooked to a television
? 3. Is there a dvd recorder that hooks to a television that will truly talk even including the menus that appear after the dvd is finished recording? These menus usually ask for chapter names etc. I do have a "one touch" dvd recorder that will record by the press of one button. However, it is the menus that come up after the dvd is finished used for finalizing the actual movie for playing that are not accessible butg must be used to finalize the disc. So my wife finishes that part. Thanks for any information in advance and have a great holiday season. ---- Original Message ----- From: "Dane Trethowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 6:11 AM Subject: Re: understanding Dvd-r discs > Ok, well my first comment is not to use DVD-R discs rather DVD-RW > type, that way you can update things as you go along should you need to. > Yes, you can copy-paste your data to a DVD-RW disc as you would a CD > and you can store whatever data you like, I suppose a DVD-RW can be > thought of as a gigantic floppy disk in the way it can be written to > or read from, that's very general of course. > Now to the interesting lot of tit-bits which talk about DVD Players > and here it seems from my experience, we have no golden rules > governing how DVD players will perform with MP3 files or even DVD > discs. To illustrate the point, my Pioneer DVD player has no trouble > whatever playing MP3/WMA content from a DVD disc but the Panasonic > players I have just refuse to acknowledge them, the Panasonic's will > only acknowledge or handle CD'S with MP3 or WMa. > Now having talked about my DVD players, I do know of some which handle > everything which can be played by Windows players such as VLC, my > Sister has one of these and it was picked up at one of our local > discount stores for $29.00, the queue out the front was amazing > <smile> but the trade-off there was that the unit isn't of a very high > quality. > Possibly the way to go is to get a dVD player which actually uses some > form of LINUX, that way you can upgrade the player to match whatever > formats you plan to use and I know these players do exist, I think a > company called Kiss Technology make some. > Good luck with all that, I've gone down that road and I've not had any > regrets whatsoever though my storage is slightly different than your > in that I don't use MP3 or WMA, I use Cue and FLAC pairs but that's > another story for another day. > > On 24/11/2007, at 8:41 PM, Scott Blanks wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Forgive my ignorance on this topic, but I'm just now considering the >> purchase of dvd-r discs for some of my storage/personal needs. I >> realize >> however, that I know very little about the technology. Here are my >> questions: >> >> 1. Can dvd-r discs be used to store mp3 and other compresse media >> such as >> WMA? If so, is the process for burning, if that is the correct term, >> the >> same as burning a cd? For example, can I copy/paste or send items to >> the dvd >> drive on my pc, then perform a standard data burn via Windows Media? >> 2. Once I've gotten the mp3/WMA files onto the dvd-r disc, >> regardless of the >> method, can this disc then be played back in most dvd players, >> including >> video dvd players folks use in conjunction with their televisions? I >> realize >> there will be exceptions, but if there is a general rule/answer to >> this >> question, I would love to be enlightened. Also, if I have stored a >> large >> number of files, contained in multiple folders on this dvd, will a >> person >> using a video dvd player be able to view the names of those folders >> and >> their files? >> 3. Amazon is offering a spindle of 100 dvd-r discs made by TDK for >> $26. Does >> this seem a good bargain? >> >> Thanks all, >> Scott >> >> >> >> >> Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >> http://www.pc-audio.org >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
