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[ubuntu] Creating a DVD for regular DVD players

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http://ubuntuforums.org – I made a short video for my brother and want to send it to him on a DVD for playback on a regular DVD player. I created it in DeVeDe and burned it to disc. It plays back in VLC on my laptop, but won't play in either of my DVD players. I'm concerned it won't play for him. I made sure that it was set to NTSC (live in the US). The disc in question is an 8x RW DVD+R. Does that make a difference? I know "back in the day" CD players wouldn't play back an RW disc, but I wasn't sure if that's the case with DVDs. Anyone have an idea why my disc might be failing? (Hardware)

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Submitted by linuxfan on 01/07/2013

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Hi,

I want to back up my music CDs in a lossless (able to reproduce the original CD from my data), yet easily-accessible (playable) way.

While making an ISO or a BIN/CUE of the CD would be lossless (at least the latter, right?), I would need to mount the ISO as a loopback device to play it, or use one of the few players which can play ISOs.

So I opted for a CUE + whole-disc-FLAC encode of

Every thread I went to told me, to burn MP3 disc I have to select data disc in Brasero or in other burning app. This is not true, I have wasted my CD ten times just to burning a working MP3 disc. It plays with some of my player but not all. To burn an MP3 disc with data mode on Brasero or other app is absolutely dumb.

On Windows, it has Ashampoo Burning Studio Free.

Every thread I went to told me, to burn MP3 disc I have to select data disc in Brasero or in other burning app. This is not true, I have wasted my CD ten times just to burning a working MP3 disc. It plays with some of my player but not all. To burn an MP3 disc with data mode on Brasero or other app is absolutely dumb.

On Windows, it has Ashampoo Burning Studio Free.

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