iDVD 5
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iDVD burns standard media DVDs. DVD Player plays standard DVDs and .iso disk image files created from standard media DVDs. For all practical purposes, your homemade DVDs are standard media DVDs. You have every reason to expect that the Windows DVD player will handle them without incident.
The only caveat is that DVD-R content is recorded by a phase change in a light sensitive film. Commercial DVDs record content in micropits stamped a metallic film. For this reason, homemade DVDs tend to be sensitive to the particular model DVD drive used to read/play them. This is not a Mac/Windows issue. This is an issue of the specific DVD drive hardware and the specific line of DVD-Rs.
You cannot pick a random spindle of DVD-Rs off the shelf of the random drug store and expect them to function properly in the random DVD-R drive. You must test the specific combination of DVD burner, DVD-R media, and DVD player to ensure that it works.
The only caveat is that DVD-R content is recorded by a phase change in a light sensitive film. Commercial DVDs record content in micropits stamped a metallic film. For this reason, homemade DVDs tend to be sensitive to the particular model DVD drive used to read/play them. This is not a Mac/Windows issue. This is an issue of the specific DVD drive hardware and the specific line of DVD-Rs.
You cannot pick a random spindle of DVD-Rs off the shelf of the random drug store and expect them to function properly in the random DVD-R drive. You must test the specific combination of DVD burner, DVD-R media, and DVD player to ensure that it works.
MisterMe, Thanks for your quick response.
The DVD movie was created from iDVD with file imported from iMovie. The original movie file was a .mp4 ( MPEC-4) converted from a VHS. The .mp4 was playable on iTune. A Memorex DVD-R medium was used.
I guess I just have to try it on other Windows PCs if I can find them!
The DVD movie was created from iDVD with file imported from iMovie. The original movie file was a .mp4 ( MPEC-4) converted from a VHS. The .mp4 was playable on iTune. A Memorex DVD-R medium was used.
I guess I just have to try it on other Windows PCs if I can find them!
ElDiabloConCaca
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It doesn't matter if the source file was a rotten banana and half a cat. The resulting DVD you created is a standard video DVD. iDVD is not going to somehow produce a different DVD if the input material, was, say, AVI instead of MP4.
Rest assured you've got yourself a standard video DVD disc. If it fails to play in one machine or another, then it's not because of any incompatibility with the data on the DVD itself -- rather, like MisterMe said, it could be chalked up to an incompatibility with the physical DVD disc itself (quality, etc.) and the DVD drive that is trying to play the DVD disc.