On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, SOTL wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 April 2005 17:44, Eben King wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, SOTL wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 05 April 2005 17:08, Eben King wrote:
> > > >
> > > > It is possible to burn custom DVDs; zillions of people do so every day
> > > > (I am not one of them, but http://www.videohelp.com/ can help you).
> > > > Presumably you can put any video you want on a custom DVD. I have made
> > > > a CDV (or some variant thereof) -- no DVD writer required.
> > >
> > > Yes but can you then play the DVD in a TV DVD player instead of a
> > > computer?
> >
> > Yup, it's a standard DVD, like you get a movie on.
>
> I get Linux distributions on a DVD and I would not exactly call that a movie
No, that's not a movie, it's a data DVD.
> so I believe there is a little bit more to this than simply having a bunch
> of data burned to a CD in DVD format. Little things like file format et.
Yeah.
> Since I DO NOT have a TV much less a TV DVD player I have no concept of
> what format et a TV DVD player takes.
Probably something that's accepted by "mplayer -dvd 1" is a good start. But
don't make your first test in a real DVD player "live"...
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