[geeks] DVD CD

[Mike Parson]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:56:46PM -0500, Kevin wrote:
> Does anyone know if you can burn a DVD file system to a CDR and
> have it work in a normal DVD player.  This is of course assuming
> that the DVD image is small enough to fit on CD.
> 
> I've dd'ed a DVD to my drive and the image is just 480 megs ( a
> friend skydiving, short video.)  I just want to know if i can
> burn it to CD and have them play it in a regular DVD player or
> does it actually have to go onto a DVD medium?

I've done it, had a video DVD, copied it to an iso (uh, UDF?) file and
then burned it as an image with Nero to a CD.  Popped it in my Sampo DVD
player, all was good.  It was just one music video on the disc, only
took a few hundred megs, didn't see the point of wasting a whole DVD
blank on it.

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org