hey guys,
i've just got myself a new dvd+/-rw drive and a spindle of dvd-r disks. i've filled up a large portion of my xbox hdd with avi's from tv shows and whay not. i want to archive them off to dvd discs that i can stick in the xbox drive and browse/play from the xbmc my video menu.
now this is my first dvd writer so i'm a bit of newbie as regards whats the best approach for formating the discs etc. so i thought i'd ask here for some advice. i've seen previous posts of people not being able to play avi files off dvd's after the 2gb mark or some such and don't want to run into problems like that.
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should i use udf or is9600 etc. etc. so any advice welcome.
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i also meant to say that i'm fortunate enough to have an xbox with a samsung drive and so "in theory" shouldn't have any problems reading the discs.
that pretty much covers what i wanted to hear, thanks.
see, this is the kind of thing i was afraid of.
thanks for the heads up.
i do need to get these to offline media. if it turns out that the xbox can't read them directly via the drive then that's ok. i can ftp them over of smb share them from my pc when i want them. not as convenient as just bunging in the dvd-r into the xbox though.
i'll do a test later today or over the weekend and let you know how i got on.
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here's my experience:
my xbox also has a samsung drive and i've had a lot of problems with media i've recorded.
i just got a sony drx530ul drive and found that media burned with it onto memorex black cdr's as well as media burned with it onto (manu unknown) dvd-r's 'appeared to work' in that the drive recognized them and appeared to see all the data. later i found (after i had burned a bunch of media and removed the source) that the media was flakey in that certain files couldn't be read or that they couldn't be read after the drive was warm.
i know there is plenty of info out there telling you what works and what doesn't. i just never expected it to be this flakey. i figured if the media booted and showed the directory contents it worked fine.
now i don't burning at all. i would put the time/money into a larger hard disk.
if you do burn, it might help to burn at 1x only.
as i understood it the 2gb limit was on single avi files over 2gb, so multiple avi's under 2gb each you should have no problem. i would simply burn the avi files with nothing special (standard iso9600 format) this way you can still read them on a computer.
the really only option i see is converting them to vob and making custom dvd's with menu's and crap. this would take a lot of time and would not be as easy to copy the avi's back onto a computer hard drive
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