The Nero bug. They didn't know?!

[Greg12]

I e-mailed Nero, asked them to release a service release to fix the DVD-Video bug.

The tech guy sounded like Nero didn't know it was a bug.

Will they not play on DVD Players, or even on DVDROM drives using
PowerDVD 4.0 or later, or WinDVD 4.0 or later?

What model DVD Player are you testing with?

Regards,

Craig

(I ommited my nero log)

Maybe now they will fix it

[Thorn]

Technically it's lack of foresight... Pioneer and some other manufacturers dropped the ball when they made some DVD players that couldn't understand any version of UDF after 1.02 (since 2.01 is the current version). Nero should have picked up on that VERY quickly and made the next release with an option to make all DVD-Video discs use 1.02 rather than having to do this manully with making a UDF disc. Ahead is just a little slow... maybe we need to bug them some more and make it clear what is happening.

[Cornucopia]

This is from another post of mine:

I read in this thread and in others about setting Nero to specifically be UDF v1.02. Got me to thinking-gee did I do everything right? Guess what? I did a disc image using the default DVD-Video template, and one using the suggested v1.02, blah blah blah template. I did a file compare with WinDiff...There is NO difference! Bit-for-bit the same (except file creation dates). Both using UDF v1.02.

Here's some of what I know about UDF:
When DVD spec was written, only v1.0 was complete. DVD Forum wanted to use UDF, but make it more basic like ISO9660, so created a subset called microUDF. This includes short filenames, max 1GB files, only contiguous files, etc. This way really stupid hardware players wouldn't have too much difficulty reading the discs. IIRC, Spec was then updated to accomodate DVD's, hence v1.02. Subsequent version updates (v1.50, v2.0, v2.01) add more flexibility to UDF incl. rewritability, multisession, bootability, mt ranier, spanning, all kinds of stuff which happens to be IRRELEVANT to DVDVideo creation. And so...
All DVD player hardware is meant to just look for a v1.02 microUDF disc. If it can understand subsequent versions, then it's really a BONUS. But not the standard.
It looks to me as if Pioneer is just trying to be strictly compliant, not loosely compliant. And maybe only 1 version of Nero has/had that bug, cuz it isn't there on my copy.

Scott