[Debburn-devel] genisoimage - unreadable videoDVD under Windows

[Jan Klugl]

hello there,
I've got an annoying problem that I can't sort out even with the help of 
google or some Linux forums, so I decided to mail you. Sorry for 
disturbing in advance.

I am using Kubuntu 8.04 and want to burn video DVDs. I tried k3b, 
growisofs, genisoimage - the result is still the same. DVD is unreadable 
under Windows. I even tried to burn an image made by genisoimage with 
some Windows burning software, but result is the same. Windows say DVD 
is not ready.
Interesting thing may be that on my friend's computer the DVD is just 
shown as empty [ie not "not ready"] but his dvd shrink is *able* to dump 
the video. Though he can't play the DVD from Win directly. I'm talking 
about win XP in both cases.
Under Linux is everything OK, no difference in mount list, but 
dvd+rw-mediainfo has one difference between that DVD and DVD burned by 
me before [which is Win compatible] with Fedora5 on same hardware [and 
with growisofs]:

[OK]

READ TRACK INFORMATION[#1]:
   Track State:           complete incremental

[Win-unreadable]

READ TRACK INFORMATION[#1]:
   Track State:           complete

That may be irrelevant though.

I'm searching [and posting :)] thru some Linux forums around and I found 
two guys having the same problem. But no remedy :(
Was there a change in UDF filesystem recently that Windows don't 
understand? Is there a way to burn Windows compatible DVD-Video disc 
under Linux?
Thanks

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                                     Jan Klügl