[mythtv-users] Playing a DVD created with Mytharchive

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Fri Apr 2 20:36:08 UTC 2010


On Friday 02 April 2010 01:28:44 pm Harry Devine wrote:

> The video format for me under "MythArchive Settings" is already set to
> NTSC.  If I open the ISO on my Fedora 11 box using something like
> Kaffeine, it'll play eventually.  But not on a standard DVD player or on
> a Windows PC (even using PowerDVD).

I have found that whether a MythArchive disk will play in standalone players 
is very dependent on the media I use. I have better luck with the DVD-R disks 
and not the DVD+R ones, but I have read that the particular player(s) make(s) 
a difference.

Strangely, I have had "no-name" media work fine in just about every player, 
while I have had "high-priced name brand" media fail in almost all of them, 
it's just hard to predict.

When I get to dual-layer disks it gets even more complicated. It's pretty much 
just a crap shoot.

The issue of compatibility of recorded DVDs with standalone players is still 
pretty much a dark art and not a science.




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