The only thing I do care about in making this (and ever did) was that MY dvd player IS compatible, and I can fit a LOT more material on a DVD than a VCD..more than double...Plus a GOOD menuing system would keep me from having to just keep hitting track advance to go to the next video..If I wanted to watch the last video on the VCD, I would have to do track advance at least a dozen times... As a bonus with doing it the DVD way, I can make the audio for it into AC3, and have it coming out stereo in both front and back speakers without having to use my tuner's cheap effects..(thereby removing that nasty echo effect) If it was a pioneer rep that told him the wrong info, then I guess the pioneer rep is the idiot, but he should have checked the facts before preaching the wrong info.. As for the point that I'm better off leaving it as VCD..all my videos are allready in VCD format, and I can just browse a menu and watch them on my DVD player anyways..I just wanted to consolidate all my material to 1 or 2 discs, and have a nifty menu with "fake" dolby audio.. --- Don Gagen <DGagen@EnsembleStudios.com> wrote:
Wow! I can see why you would take offense to the "tone" of his message. However, there is some good information there too. I should have edited the content.
You are right about that recorder. The information that the Pioneer rep provided to his office was totally wrong. It's nice to know if you do decide to use the A03 burner you can use the cheaper media. The key is making sure that they are recognized and play well on the end users player. Unfortunately most of the players fail to recognize the general-purpose DVD-R and DVD-RW at this point.
The main point is that you're actually better off leaving it as a VCD. More players play VCD than the general purpose DVD-Rs. Secondly, you won't get better quality by converting it DVD unless you start over with the original videos.
Don
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Bennett [mailto:christopher_m_bennett@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 2:48 PM To: klf@mailman.xmission.com Subject: RE: RE: Becoming OT Re: [KLF] VCD
Attacked? no..but he should be..I am a certified Novell guy..and full time computer tech... I can come up with 10 million reasons why someone is completely stupid for wanting to install their own video card..but I can also say "It's not that @#$@# hard, and yes..it IS possible for other people besides your amazing self that are capable of understanding these not really complex things..
(there are more than just this guy who knows how to author DVD's..)
I would almost say your professional DVD authoring friend feels attacked by the fact that an amateur is trying to do what he is doing for a living?
4. If he doesn't realize this stuff, there are about 100 other things he does not know, so I bet he can't encode very well either.
2. If he is on a Pioneer burner (which is probable) he is using A03 burner (those are the ones that do the DVD-R and DVD-RW). A03 won't work with the sucky $5 general purpose DVD-Rs (as opposed to authoring DVD-Rs). A03 burned discs also have more compatibility issues than A02 discs (the burner I have).
Uh..check the stats bucko..the A03's can't do the DVD-R's for authoring..just the general purpose..
http://www.shop4tech.com/cgi-bin/shop/shop.cgi?html_requested=dvdrchart
Boy..it really makes me mad to see someone preaching and forgetting to read the book first.. A word to the "friend" ..Shut your yap..you are NOT the brightest bulb in the lamp..
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