On Tue 06 Jan 2004 22:40, Steven M. Schultz wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Stephen Mollett wrote:
> > On Monday 05 January 2004 22:20, John Gay wrote:
> > > This is probably a stupid question but, is it possible to write small
> > > DVD's onto CD-RW's for testing purposes?
> >
> > What you're describing is often referred to as "MiniDVD". It's a "known"
> > format (see http://www.doom9.org/glossary.htm#minidvd for a description),
> > but your DVD player may well not be able to handle it. Your best bet is
> > to test
>
>       I have not found any hardware DVD player that will play the miniDVD
>       format.   Seems that the players make a check for what type of media
>       is loaded and if they find "CD-R/RW" then they do not look for the
>       DVD filesystem structure.
>
>       Software players will play the miniDVD format so it is possible to
>       do some testing that way.
>
>       For testing I use DVD+RW (or DVD-RW which is slower to start and
>       fixate the disc).
>
That's what I was afraid of. My DVD player doesn't even reconize any RW media, 
so I'll just have to use DVD-R's for testing.


Cheers,

        John Gay


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