Advice on DVD media

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These two websites offer invaluable informtation on anything regarding
home DVD making:

http://www.videohelp.com/

http://www.doom9.org/

There are many articles and tutorials for the home DVD maker, plus
info regarding stand alone set top units and and discussions in the
forums.  Videohelp.com is general very 'search' friendly.

Good luck.

  --Eric



Wednesday, June 9, 2004, 7:04:26 AM, you wrote:

MH> As y'all will have gathered, I'm new to all this DVD stuff. So after a
MH> weekend of struggle behind the cabinets I have the DVD/HDD recorder all
MH> plumbed in to the other kit. Naturally, despite my having near 50 leads
MH> in the cupboard, the one I needed wasn't there and couldn't be found on
MH> a Sunday, but it's all done.

MH> So I've produced my first DVD-R from a couple of films on the hard
MH> drive. I do however have questions:

MH> 1) When I put the DVD-R in my old DVD player, it will jam up if I try to
MH> go faster that 2x fast forward. I recorded it on LP (4 hours on 4.7Gb).
MH> Is this affected by the DVD-R media? Should I avoid the cheaper media
MH> blanks? Which ones are worth buying?

MH> 2) Can I construct playlists and write them to DVD-R so that I can jump
MH> to scenes in a movie?

MH> Thanks for any help from you experts out there..

MH> FoFP