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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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

:-)  :-)