On Tuesday 13 March 2007, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 13:08 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Thinking about what you said, I realised that you may be testing with > > commercially burned disks, while I was testing with home-burned disks. > > To my surprise xine opened an old commercially burned disk without a > > problem (old, non-encrypted - I haven't tried an encrypted one). That > > leads me to wonder whether these latest versions of video-players are > > actually looking for something that is present in a commercially burned > > disk but not in one created by dvdauthor. > > There's a number of variables: Stand-alone DVD players are often quite > tolerant of nonsense on discs, and also quite intolerant of other > things. Stand-alone DVD recorders usually do not record in a standard > DVD-Video manner. Computer burnt discs may be burnt incorrectly (wrong > file system, multiple file systems with poor file naming choices in one > of them, discs should contain upper-case AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS > directories, with all upper-case filenames inside them, the first file > to be played should be the first file actually written to the disc). > Both stand-alone and computer burnt discs may create playback problems > with multi-session recordings. Computers playing DVDs may mount discs > incorrectly if they have multiple formats on them (Joliet shouldn't be > used, ISO-9660 can be used, UDF should be used). > Not disputing any of that, but remember that I use a standard methodology for mastering and burning, and the results have always been fine. Whether I burn on the computer from my own masterings or on the stand-alone player/burner from input, I always check the result on the 'other'. Until recently they were fine. I'm convinced that a recent upgrade to something - maybe a libs package - has upset the applecart. Anne
