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Re: [LUG] Playing recorded DVDs

 

Simon Williams wrote:
> Julian Hall wrote:
>  > IIRC you can *if* you have a DVDRW drive, but Simon said he has a
>  > multibirner so perhaps not.  Maybe has to be finalised in the same
>  > machine for some reason.
>
> Why in the world would a plain DVDRW drive support it when a multiburner 
> wouldn't. Multiburner = multiple formats, as in ALL of them. It can read 
> EVERYTHING, and write everything except DVD-RAM I think.
>   
Yes I *know*.. that's what I *said*
>   
>> Ray Smith wrote:
>>     
>>> Perhaps it's to do with the way the disc is initially prepared for recording
>>> on via a domestic DVD recorder as opposed to on a pc dvd recorder ?
>>>   
>>>       
>> Have you tried browsing the disc and running the individual VOBs?
>>     
>
> I borrowed a Windows laptop and it seems that it's UDF2 with VOBs on it, 
> but I cannot mount this thing on Linux. I can't actually read it in 
> Windows on my machine either, but that's probably because I haven't got 
> any burning software installed- both the other machines I've tried had 
> burning software and so presumably knew about unfinalised DVD's.
>
>
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