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Making DVD movies

I don't have much experience in this department. Hope experienced people are around here.

If I record things from TV onto my PC using my video capture card and then make a DVD with it, will it be playable in all DVD players?
It saves as mpeg but ...
I know that it's not possible to play certain avi and mpeg files because some PCs don't have the needed codecs. Is this the case with DVD players, I mean the DVD players plugged into your TV.

Another annoying thing about DVD movies is zones. I want to make zoneless DVD. Is it possible? Can all DVD players play zoneless DVDs?

Also, is it possible to make a DVD movie, like if I want to put 30 minutes on it and then later on, add another 30 minutes, then more until it gets filled up.
Or perhaps I would have to collect all shows, and fill up the DVD at once.

Hmm... What else. What about ability to fast forward a DVD? With DVDs, I guess you can make it such that it jump 5 min forwards or backwards.
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Re: Making DVD movies

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I don't have much experience in this department. Hope experienced people are around here.

If I record things from TV onto my PC using my video capture card and then make a DVD with it, will it be playable in all DVD players?
It saves as mpeg but ...
I know that it's not possible to play certain avi and mpeg files because some PCs don't have the needed codecs. Is this the case with DVD players, I mean the DVD players plugged into your TV.
If you already have a mpeg file on your HDD, to convert it into a DVD to play on a standalone you need a DVD authoring software like TMPGEnc DVD Author. It will convert mpeg files into a compliant DVD disc.
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Another annoying thing about DVD movies is zones. I want to make zoneless DVD. Is it possible? Can all DVD players play zoneless DVDs?
DVD author can create region free discs, so you can play your movies in any standalone. For what I know, all standalones can play regionless discs. The only thing that can cause problems is that some standalones are able to read only PAL movies or NTSC movies, so if you create a PAL movie, be sure that your standalone is able to read it. Most of nowdays players are able to play both NTSC and PAL movies.

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Also, is it possible to make a DVD movie, like if I want to put 30 minutes on it and then later on, add another 30 minutes, then more until it gets filled up.
Or perhaps I would have to collect all shows, and fill up the DVD at once.
My suggestion is to create a complete disc, because adding segments to an already partially burned DVD disc could be problematic. You can save all mpeg files first on your HDD, then load all them into TMPGEnc DVD Author, and then convert all segments into a complete DVD disc. In this way you can also create menus. If you save each segment on a disc, creating menus for all added movies will be impossible.

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Hmm... What else. What about ability to fast forward a DVD? With DVDs, I guess you can make it such that it jump 5 min forwards or backwards.
TMPGEnc DVD Author allows to do also this feature. You can create chapters in any point you like, so to jump into a specific sequence of the show you simply need to select the chapter number on your remote control.
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