[TriLUG] Family home video dvd Question

[Jim Ray]

A very merry Christmas to you as well, and God bless all whether you use
vi or emacs.


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Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Family home video dvd Question

Matt

Thanks for the link. I will check it out after the madness of Christmas
Day.

Merry Christmas to all and a very happy new year!

jcj

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 12:34 AM, Matt Pusateri
<mpusateri at wickedtrails.com> wrote:
> If I recall the site correctly (http://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers )
> This site used to list what type of media people had success with, as
> well as specs on different players.  Hopefully I got the right site :)
>
> And Merry Christmas everyone and may you New Year be filled with
> Health, Prosperity, and gadgets(that run Linux of course)
>
> Matt P.
>
> On Dec 24, 2008, at 6:16 PM, James Jones wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> I burned some family videotapes to dvd. I used kino to edit the
>> digital video tapes, deeveedee to create the movie iso and k3b to
burn
>> the dvd.
>>
>> The DVD's play on multiple dvd players on computers, on most dvd
>> players but some family members have samsung dvd players. The known
>> playable dvd's will not play on the samsung dvd player. On the
>> internal dvd menu screen, it begins to load and immediately goes to
>> stop. No error message on internal screen and only a message on the
tv
>> that says "This dvd cannot be played". ( or words to that effect ).
>>
>> My thinking is that the player tests for some message to indicate
that
>> it is a commercially made dvd and if it doesn't see that , stops all
>> action.
>>
>> Anyone that knows what is going on give me a clue. And if anyone
knows
>> how to make dvds playable on player's that doesn't want to play
>> homemades, please educate me.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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