Test results: DVD+R recorded on DVD-recorder won't play on PC

Done som testing to figure out what works and what does not

1) Recording on DVD+R, edit of title afterwards, finalize:
+ Play on some DVD-splayers (haven't found the logic yet)
+ Files readable on PC (can be copied etc)
- Does not play in MediaPlayer on PC (complete lockup)
- DVD Shrink gives error when trying to scan the disc

2) Recording on DVD+R, finalize immediatly (no editing)
+ Plays on most DVD-players
+ Files readable on PC (can be copied etc)
+ Plays in MediaPlayer (but you can't use the position-bar)
- DVD Shrink gives error when trying to scan the disc

3) Recording on DVD+RW
+ Plays on all DVD-players
+ Files readable on PC (can be copied etc)
+ Plays in MediaPlayer (but you can't use the position-bar)
+ DVD Shrink scans the disc OK like a standard DVD

Conclusion must be that if you record directly to a DVD+R you cannot
edit anything on the disc. Then something is messed up inside the .IFO
and .VOB files, and MediaPlayer and some DVD-players refuses to play.

Best choice seems to be recording on DVD+RW. Then you can edit (title
names, index pictures, add chapter, remove commercials etc) and then
make a copy to a DVD+R on a PC afterwards to get a standard DVD-video.

But it's a shame (and strange) that you can't even chosse the title
name on a DVD+R recording without messing it up (why can't it ask for
the title name at start or end of the recording, then you wouldn't
have to write more to the disc - seems like that is the problem).

BTW: Havn't tried recording two seesion to one disk yet

 

fine for me

- DVD Shrink gives error when trying to scan the disc

fine for me

again, fine for me

works for me

 

in my testing, a recording done on a +r disc from a cheap +r reocrder wont
be recognized in dvd shrink. however, on a more expensive recorder its fne.

 

That is because many of the cheap walmart type $100 burners record in VR mode,
whick many pc software titles have trouble with.
Tmpg DVD author should work as does Ulead 4.0 and others in reading the disks
though.

 

| Conclusion must be that if you record directly to a DVD+R you cannot
| edit anything on the disc. Then something is messed up inside the .IFO
| and .VOB files, and MediaPlayer and some DVD-players refuses to play.

The software on consumer devices tends to be the kind of junk you would
get from hiring the lowest bidder when letting out a contract to do the
development.


| But it's a shame (and strange) that you can't even chosse the title
| name on a DVD+R recording without messing it up (why can't it ask for
| the title name at start or end of the recording, then you wouldn't
| have to write more to the disc - seems like that is the problem).

Actually it works for me on Panasonic and RCA recorders and Panasonic
and Magnavox players in all combinations when I've renamed the program
and/or renamed the disc.


| BTW: Havn't tried recording two seesion to one disk yet

I've recorded as many as 8.

I do tend to see other strange errors, which may be software or hardware.
Things like refusing to finalize and just powering itself off in the middle
of a recording. I've also had cases of disc filling up after about 5 minutes
of recording on a fresh new disk just taken from a freshly unwrapped spindle
and where I can see just a little bit actually recorded on the backside.