[gentoo-user] OFF TOPIC, sort of. Playing DVDs in DVD players and DVD disc type

[gentoo-user] OFF TOPIC, sort of. Playing DVDs in DVD players and DVD disc type

[Dale]

Howdy,

I'm about to make some DVDs to be played in a DVD player, not computer
but for TV.  I have been using DVD+R and they work fine.  I've made
quite a few of them.  My friend bought another spindle of 100 that are
DVD-R.  Note the difference of + and - there.  I suspect it will play
fine but I don't want to open the spindle, burn a few, find out it
doesn't play and be stuck with DVD discs, at least 90 or so more, that
are basically of no use.  If it won't work, I'd rather him swap them out
now and get what we know works instead of getting stuck. 

I'm using DeVeDe 3.23.0 software to create the DVD and K3b to burn
them.  I think Devede creates a ISO image for K3b to burn if that helps
any.  It's been a while since I made a DVD. 

I'm pretty sure they bought their DVD player just a few years ago.  Will
DVD-Rs play the same as DVD+R in modern ones or are they still picky? 

Oh, the only DVD player I have is my puter so I'm not going to claim I
know them things real well.  ;-)

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] OFF TOPIC, sort of. Playing DVDs in DVD players and DVD disc type

[Mark Knecht]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 11:19 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I'm about to make some DVDs to be played in a DVD player, not computer
> but for TV.  I have been using DVD+R and they work fine.  I've made
> quite a few of them.  My friend bought another spindle of 100 that are
> DVD-R.  Note the difference of + and - there.  I suspect it will play
> fine but I don't want to open the spindle, burn a few, find out it
> doesn't play and be stuck with DVD discs, at least 90 or so more, that
> are basically of no use.  If it won't work, I'd rather him swap them out
> now and get what we know works instead of getting stuck.
>
> I'm using DeVeDe 3.23.0 software to create the DVD and K3b to burn
> them.  I think Devede creates a ISO image for K3b to burn if that helps
> any.  It's been a while since I made a DVD.
>
> I'm pretty sure they bought their DVD player just a few years ago.  Will
> DVD-Rs play the same as DVD+R in modern ones or are they still picky?
>
> Oh, the only DVD player I have is my puter so I'm not going to claim I
> know them things real well.  ;-)
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>

Hi Dale,
   It TOTALLY depends on the DVD player. Different players, different
specs. My input is check the specs. You can burn 1 or 2 and try, but
if the player isn't spec'ed for DVD-R then it might work today but be
flaky tomorrow.

   BTW - I recently moved my wife's laptop off of Gentoo replacing it
with Kubuntu. Only reason I bring it up is I bought a package of DVD+R
to burn some boot DVDs and found her machine (and my mom's which is
the same Asus G73JW model) won't read DVD+R but works fine with DVD-R.
Sadly, I'll be switching my main machine away from Gentoo after now
close to 17 years of using nothing but Gentoo. That's a long run
having started in 2002/2003. My machine has no trouble with either
type.

   Anyway, good luck.

Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] OFF TOPIC, sort of. Playing DVDs in DVD players and DVD disc type

[Dale]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 11:19 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I'm about to make some DVDs to be played in a DVD player, not computer
>> but for TV.  I have been using DVD+R and they work fine.  I've made
>> quite a few of them.  My friend bought another spindle of 100 that are
>> DVD-R.  Note the difference of + and - there.  I suspect it will play
>> fine but I don't want to open the spindle, burn a few, find out it
>> doesn't play and be stuck with DVD discs, at least 90 or so more, that
>> are basically of no use.  If it won't work, I'd rather him swap them out
>> now and get what we know works instead of getting stuck.
>>
>> I'm using DeVeDe 3.23.0 software to create the DVD and K3b to burn
>> them.  I think Devede creates a ISO image for K3b to burn if that helps
>> any.  It's been a while since I made a DVD.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure they bought their DVD player just a few years ago.  Will
>> DVD-Rs play the same as DVD+R in modern ones or are they still picky?
>>
>> Oh, the only DVD player I have is my puter so I'm not going to claim I
>> know them things real well.  ;-)
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>>
> Hi Dale,
>    It TOTALLY depends on the DVD player. Different players, different
> specs. My input is check the specs. You can burn 1 or 2 and try, but
> if the player isn't spec'ed for DVD-R then it might work today but be
> flaky tomorrow.
>
>    BTW - I recently moved my wife's laptop off of Gentoo replacing it
> with Kubuntu. Only reason I bring it up is I bought a package of DVD+R
> to burn some boot DVDs and found her machine (and my mom's which is
> the same Asus G73JW model) won't read DVD+R but works fine with DVD-R.
> Sadly, I'll be switching my main machine away from Gentoo after now
> close to 17 years of using nothing but Gentoo. That's a long run
> having started in 2002/2003. My machine has no trouble with either
> type.
>
>    Anyway, good luck.
>
> Mark
>
>


That's what I was afraid of.  I'm going to go up to my friends in a bit,
to look at deer pics from our trail cameras, and I'll get the brand and
model and do some googling, startpaging for me.  I was hoping that
modern ones would 'Just Work' but I guess they are still picky. 

I've been using Gentoo since about that time too.  While I'm not opposed
to switching to something else, I'm not really wanting to either.  ;-) 

Thanks for the info.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] OFF TOPIC, sort of. Playing DVDs in DVD players and DVD disc type

[Mark Knecht]

>
>
> That's what I was afraid of.  I'm going to go up to my friends in a bit,
> to look at deer pics from our trail cameras, and I'll get the brand and
> model and do some googling, startpaging for me.  I was hoping that
> modern ones would 'Just Work' but I guess they are still picky.
>
> I've been using Gentoo since about that time too.  While I'm not opposed
> to switching to something else, I'm not really wanting to either.  ;-)
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>

I wouldn't be leaving Gentoo if there wasn't need but sadly these
days, for my computing needs, there is. Gentoo's been a great distro
but for my work but over the last 2-3 years it's gotten too hard to
keep things that aren't in portage working correctly so I'm giving
into the ease of Ubuntu. I've had to run Ubuntu as a VM for the last 2
years. No update has taken more than 5 minutes. No update has failed.
My wife's machine running Kubuntu has been easy. This install was
about 15 minutes. The update was about 15 minutes. She's happy and
happy wife is a happy life so off I go.

Good luck with your DVD work.

Cheers,
Mark