Off the wall question, burning the dvd format on cd.

[syphon]

Don't asky why, however, It was a slow day at work friday so I authored a DVD image of 700mb. I then used Winiso to extrace the image. I used nero to burn the audio and video folders onto CD-R as a CD-ROM(UDF/ISO).

Now, I stick that CD-R into a standard CD-ROM in my computer and power dvd kicks in, says it's a DVD and starts playing.

I drop it in my Sony S3000 which detects DVDs/VCDs/CDs and it calls it a CD, starts to play but all I get is a black screen and no sound.

Yes, my s3000 can read CD-R without any probs.

I've burned it onto CD-RW for my Sony 860D which only reads CD-RW not CD-R and it has no idea what to do.

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Any ideas? Is it the Players? Is it the actual "formatting" of a DVD disc?
Is there anything I could try? (i use formatting loosly, meaning the sector/track positioning when a DVD/DVD-r/DVD-etc.... is manufactured)

I look to DreamCast for the Idea, the origional was a GD (standard size disc - 1 Gig in size - unreadable in pc), however if you download or downsample a GD and burn it onto CD-R and CD-RW it plays fine...

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In case you do want to know, I figured my buds and many can't play SVCD in there DVD player much less some of them VCD. If you encode the SVCD/VCD into dvd and can fit it on to 1 to 2 CD-R's which play in most players then some short commings are avoided.



- Syphon

[Baldrick]

it is called minidvd or cdvd
www.vcdhelp.com/minidvd.htm

[lucindrea]

try a cd-rw ... sometimes you can trick the player into not seeing that it's a cd and not a dvd ( usefull for FULL ac3 tracks ) ... VERY few players will play mini-dvds but almot all pc dvd-roms will .... SVCD is still better in my opinion as you can fit more per cd