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Thread ID: 60576	2005-08-06 04:18:00	DVD records only for that recorder ???	hotkiwi (6379)	Press F1

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378851	2005-08-06 04:18:00	Dear friends, I have bought one of these great Panasonic DVD recorders with a 160 GB harddisk. I love it. I transferred DV film to its harddisk and then burnt that to DVD. it looks great and the DVd works fine, however only on that recorder!!!! If I put the DVD in any other DVD player it will say: no disk, or disk not recognised. Simply looking on my PC it will not detect any file on the DVD, but indicates the DVD is full !!! What is the background of this problem? Cheers Johan	hotkiwi (6379)
378852	2005-08-06 04:24:00	Has your computer got a dvd player in/on it? DVD's wont play in a normal cd player . It sounds the same as if u burned a dvd on a computer . You'll need a pretty recent dvd player to play it . What are u trying to do with it, on the pc, why its saying its full?	Speedy Gonzales (78)
378853	2005-08-06 04:37:00	Compatabilty. Most likely your recorder is using the dvd-ram format.	Metla (12)
378854	2005-08-06 04:46:00	Dear friends, I have bought one of these great Panasonic DVD recorders with a 160 GB harddisk. I love it. I transferred DV film to its harddisk and then burnt that to DVD. it looks great and the DVd works fine, however only on that recorder!!!! If I put the DVD in any other DVD player it will say: no disk, or disk not recognised. Simply looking on my PC it will not detect any file on the DVD, but indicates the DVD is full !!! What is the background of this problem? Cheers Johan Depends on how you burnt it and to what format disk you burnt it to. You could have done it to DVD-R or DVD-RAM. If the second then you need a DVD-RAM drive to access it. Also the format counts. It could be the format of the recorder or MPEG. What I do is burn it to a DVD-RAM disk and then use my DVD-RAM drive in my PC to read it and use programs to convert it to what I want. Usually avi's but you can make it into proper DVD with the right program.	Big John (551)
378855	2005-08-06 05:03:00	Depends on how you burnt it and to what format disk you burnt it to. You could have done it to DVD-R or DVD-RAM. If the second then you need a DVD-RAM drive to access it. Also the format counts. It could be the format of the recorder or MPEG. What I do is burn it to a DVD-RAM disk and then use my DVD-RAM drive in my PC to read it and use programs to convert it to what I want. Usually avi's but you can make it into proper DVD with the right program. thanks guys for this. I do not exactly know what format it uses, I simply burn it in the player itself from the harddrive to a DVD-R+ disk. It then will not play in any other DVD player or in the DVD player of my PC. The idea of a DVD RAM is a good one, will try to sort that out!!	hotkiwi (6379)
378856	2005-08-06 05:36:00	thanks guys for this. I do not exactly know what format it uses, I simply burn it in the player itself from the harddrive to a DVD-R+ disk. It then will not play in any other DVD player or in the DVD player of my PC. The idea of a DVD RAM is a good one, will try to sort that out!! Hi, I have a Sony HD-DVD player but I bet its the same issue. When you record from HDD to a blank DVD the data is saved to the disc in an un-finalized state. This is similar to packet-writing a RW-DVD using a PC. Unfinalized discs will not be playable on other devices (including PC's and other DVD Players). Using the Sony HD-DVD player theres an option under the tools menu to finalize the disc. There will be an equivalent option for your recorder. Note that you will require some additional space to finalize the disc so record to the disc up to say 4.3GB for a 4.7GB disc. Other factors to take into consideration are... 1) Media type used. Some stand alone DVD players may support DVD-R and DVD+R but not DVD-RW or DVD+RW. Even though you may have finalised a RW then it may not play because of this in other players. Btw, theres no problem finalizing a DVDRW+/- then erasing afterwards when you want to record something else. 2) Brand of media. You will find some DVD players are fussy about the brand of DVD - one may work and another may not. You can search the web to see what other users have found reliable for them at such sites as Video Help (http://www.videohelp.com/)	Parry (5696)
378857	2005-08-07 03:22:00	Thanks for this information, mate!! Johan	hotkiwi (6379)
378858	2005-08-07 03:28:00	Your PC burning software will have a "Media Information" option (in the "Tools" page?). That will probably show the disk has an open session. Nero (for CDs anyway) has a check box to close the session (or whole disk). That works for me when I get a CD-RW which appears to not have files which I know are on it). You would probably want to "close disk"	Graham L (2)
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