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    So I have alway been under the impression that when naming dvd's they had to be in a format of all caps with underscores between any words instead of spaces. Recently got a movie on dvd and the title was in upper and lower case characters with spaces seperating the words. Is this ok or should I change the name to all caps with underscores, thanks.
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    Apparently when DVD players that played burned discs first became available, a few of them wouldnt play discs with titles not in caps. I personally have never run into such a player and always author my discs with mixed case characters, spaces, and sometimes a really long name. All play fine.
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    I always leave the same name as the original (which can include lowercase, spaces, odd characters, etc.), and I've never run into any problems playing them back on any players. YMMV
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    I always convert DVD names to my format, because they generally have stupid names. For example, seasons 1 through 3 of CSI all get the name DVD_VIDEO or something like that. For every disc. Changing it to CSI_S1_D3 or whatever makes it much more manageable. I name all dual layer DVDs with lowercase and spaces so I know I have to shrink them, and then I never get confused.
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    Yeah, forgot about those. I usually change DVD_VIDEO and UNDEFINED to something a bit more descriptive...
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    How do people miss that sort of thing? If you were creating a master DVD, wouldn't you actually check it to see if it was right?
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  7. Sloppy authors. I always make sure my titles are correct. I've never had a client that had a problem with capitals and underscores.
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  8. DVD are ISO/UDF hybrid so the ISO session will have all caps and underscores. The UDF session can be anything. If you burn a disc in Toast for example and name the DVD "DVD Video", the UDF session will be "DVD Video" and the ISO session will be "DVD_VIDEO". The Mac always mounts the UDF session. The DVD player users the ISO session.

    If you get info on the DVD in Toast one can see the difference in session names.

    It would even be possible to name the UDF and ISO session different if the authoring application allowed it. As long as the ISO session has the correct name, a DVD player shouldn't have a problem.
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    Originally Posted by chikanakan
    DVD are ISO/UDF hybrid so the ISO session will have all caps and underscores. The UDF session can be anything. If you burn a disc in Toast for example and name the DVD "DVD Video", the UDF session will be "DVD Video" and the ISO session will be "DVD_VIDEO". The Mac always mounts the UDF session. The DVD player users the ISO session.

    If you get info on the DVD in Toast one can see the difference in session names.

    It would even be possible to name the UDF and ISO session different if the authoring application allowed it. As long as the ISO session has the correct name, a DVD player shouldn't have a problem.
    According to the spec, DVD players (incl. hardware) are expected to use the UDF volume. Many older players didn't for economical reasons (skimping), but this should improve with newer players.

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    Originally Posted by chikanakan
    DVD are ISO/UDF hybrid so the ISO session will have all caps and underscores. The UDF session can be anything. If you burn a disc in Toast for example and name the DVD "DVD Video", the UDF session will be "DVD Video" and the ISO session will be "DVD_VIDEO". The Mac always mounts the UDF session. The DVD player users the ISO session.

    If you get info on the DVD in Toast one can see the difference in session names.

    It would even be possible to name the UDF and ISO session different if the authoring application allowed it. As long as the ISO session has the correct name, a DVD player shouldn't have a problem.
    Thanks for that explanation. Very illuminating!
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