Can You Bitset a CDR?

[wulf109]

This question arises from another thread I was reading. We know you can burn a miniDVD to CDR with DVD file structure. Is there a way to "bitset" a CDR so that any DVD player will see it as a normal DVD-R disk?

[garryheather]

That's a new one.

I very much doubt it. We're talking two different technologies, so the rules probably don't apply like that.

Many DVD players determine the type of disc by what strategy it has to adopt in order to read it (which is why some DVD players refuse to play DVD content that is on CD-R in the first place), so "bitsetting" a CD-R could be a waste of time for some such players in the first place.

Assuming you could and the player paid any attention to that bitsetting, that could cause all manner of problems depending on the hardware and how it's firmware has been coded if a CD claims to be a DVD.

Interesting proposition, that one.