DVD studio Pro compatibility issues in DVD players?

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DVD studio Pro compatibility issues in DVD players?

Greetings folks,

I thought I was done burning DVD's with DVD studio pro of a dance reception I taped last month. Only tested my product on MAC machines. When I got a call from the client they said they cannot get them to play on their windows 7 machines. Is there a certain type of codec/reader they should download?

Or does it sound like I need to bust out the burning discs again? If that is the case where is the best tutorial for formatting discs so they will play in basically every machine?

thanks,

Mike

Mac Pro

Posted on Jan 22, 2013 12:27 PM

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Shane Ross

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Jan 22, 2013 1:05 PM in response to colforbinphan

Did you, perchance, burn HD DVDs and not standard DVDs?

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Answer 2

Jan 22, 2013 1:06 PM in response to colforbinphan

First make sure you didn't inadvertently burn an HD DVD. HD DVDs will play in most later model Macs, but not in DVD players or Windows computers.

If that wasn't the issue, ask the client which DVD player software they were using. Windows Media Player is a terrible app for playing burned DVDs - they need to use an actual DVD player app like WinDVD or Cyberlink's PowerDVD.

-DH

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Jan 22, 2013 1:10 PM in response to David Harbsmeier

I think It might have been an HD DVD. darn, thank you guys.

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Jan 22, 2013 1:17 PM in response to colforbinphan

now It looks like I am tooting my own horn! Tried to take back the "this solved my question" and award it to you guys,..For some reason I selected it for my answer.

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Jan 23, 2013 6:31 AM in response to colforbinphan

I have changed the settings to SD-DVD and they still will not play in any DVD player I try.

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SoCal

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Jan 23, 2013 8:18 PM in response to colforbinphan

You can't change the project after it's been started. You have to start over with an SD-DVD. Then import assests, build then burn.

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Jan 24, 2013 11:18 AM in response to SoCal

I guess I skipped the build process altogether, that must be the reason they only will play on my MACs.

So build formats it, then you burn. WIll read up on that a bit better I suppose.

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