DVD +VR or -VR playback

How come my Denon DVD-1920 DVD player won't play it back when I record in
+VR mode on my computer DVD-RW from my video capture card using WinDVD
Creator (1.1) ?

What's the point of buying a DVD recorder or recording anything on DVD when
you can't take it around to a friends house to watch who doesn't have a DVD
recorder or a computer handy ?

Agamemnon wrote:
How come my Denon DVD-1920 DVD player won't play it back when I record
in +VR mode on my computer DVD-RW from my video capture card using
WinDVD Creator (1.1) ?

What's the point of buying a DVD recorder or recording anything on DVD
when you can't take it around to a friends house to watch who doesn't
have a DVD recorder or a computer handy ?
Does the Denon DVD-1920 player have support for VR mode? Denon's
website doesn't mention it - just "DVD-Video Mode".

Just says:
DVD-R/RW (DVD-Video Mode) Playback
DVD+R/RW Playback
Plays DivX Video-Playback Video content
CD-R/RW (MP3/Windows Media Audio/JPEG/Kodak Picture CD)Playback

According to
http://www.pcworld.com/resource/arti...9,pg,11,00.asp

"Rewritable DVD discs can be recorded in two video formats: DVD-Video,
the format that commercial movies use; or VR (Video Recording). VR mode
enables on-disc editing... Discs recorded in VR mode are compatible only
with players and recorders that support VR."

Seeing as Denon explicitly state (DVD-Video Mode), I suspect the
implication is it doesn't support VR mode.

That's why. Just record it in standard DVD-Video Mode and you should be
fine.

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"David Hearn" wrote in message
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Agamemnon wrote:
How come my Denon DVD-1920 DVD player won't play it back when I record in
+VR mode on my computer DVD-RW from my video capture card using WinDVD
Creator (1.1) ?

What's the point of buying a DVD recorder or recording anything on DVD
when you can't take it around to a friends house to watch who doesn't
have a DVD recorder or a computer handy ?
Does the Denon DVD-1920 player have support for VR mode? Denon's website
doesn't mention it - just "DVD-Video Mode".

Just says:
DVD-R/RW (DVD-Video Mode) Playback
DVD+R/RW Playback
Plays DivX Video-Playback Video content
CD-R/RW (MP3/Windows Media Audio/JPEG/Kodak Picture CD)Playback

According to
http://www.pcworld.com/resource/arti...9,pg,11,00.asp

"Rewritable DVD discs can be recorded in two video formats: DVD-Video, the
format that commercial movies use; or VR (Video Recording). VR mode
enables on-disc editing... Discs recorded in VR mode are compatible only
with players and recorders that support VR."

Seeing as Denon explicitly state (DVD-Video Mode), I suspect the
implication is it doesn't support VR mode.

WinDVD Creator claims that +VR can be played on most new DVD players, except
in practise as I have found out it can't. It can't even be played in the DVD
drive that created it without running into disc errors and skipping or
stopping 75% of the way through a RW disc, whereas video recorded as data on
the same disc plays back fine.


That's why. Just record it in standard DVD-Video Mode and you should be
fine.

That means I have to record to HDD first and then it takes over an hour to
format and burn and I can only record one session. On top of that I only
have a choice of two speeds SP and HQ.

Now if I were to find some software that recorded in Xvid in real time then
that should be able to recorded on as DVD as data and should play back in my
DVD player all right. Anyone got any ideas of something that can do this and
work with a 3.2 GHz P4 processor ?



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Agamemnon wrote:

"David Hearn" wrote in message
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Agamemnon wrote:
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That's why. Just record it in standard DVD-Video Mode and you should
be fine.

That means I have to record to HDD first and then it takes over an hour
to format and burn and I can only record one session. On top of that I
only have a choice of two speeds SP and HQ.

Now if I were to find some software that recorded in Xvid in real time
then that should be able to recorded on as DVD as data and should play
back in my DVD player all right. Anyone got any ideas of something that
can do this and work with a 3.2 GHz P4 processor ?


I doubt that that's the best option. If you're using the card to record digital
tv instead of archiving vhs tapes & stuff then getting a digital-tv card would
be much better as they take seconds to convert to dvd-video. If not then find
any software that can record an mpeg2 stream directly instead of xvid. XviD is
more time consuming to encode and decode than mpeg2 and as mpeg2 is used for dvd
using that first saves time.

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