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is it possible to burn a dvd, and have it work on regular cd-rom drives?

and im just curious, in Nero theres a thing called UDF DVD, what is that?


thanks

No, although they look similar AFAIK its impossible for a CD-ROM to read any type of DVD because I'm fairly sure they use different lasers and wavelengths and stuff.

And about UDF DVD

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Originally posted by http://homepage.ntlworld.com/allcam/cdformat.html#2
ISO 9660 have been used as the main CD format for many years now. Most of the CD nowsdays still use this format, the benefit of this format is that it is readable by all CD drive or CD player, and can be shared between PC and MAC.

Universal Disk Format (UDF) is a newer file system for CD and DVDdeveloped and managed by the Optical Storage Technology Association as the successor to the ISO 9660 standard. UDF overcomes limitations of ISO 9660 and redirectors such as CDFS. UDF is used to ensure compatibility across platforms, as well as among various CD and DVD applications. UDF is required for DVDs, and is used by DVD to contain MPEG audio/video streams, UDF is also used by CD-R and CD-RW in a process called packet writing that makes CD writing more efficient in terms of the time and disk space required.

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Originally posted by Dempsey
No, although they look similar AFAIK its impossible for a CD-ROM to read any type of DVD because I'm fairly sure they use different lasers and wavelengths and stuff.

And about UDF DVD

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Originally posted by http://homepage.ntlworld.com/allcam/cdformat.html#2
ISO 9660 have been used as the main CD format for many years now. Most of the CD nowsdays still use this format, the benefit of this format is that it is readable by all CD drive or CD player, and can be shared between PC and MAC.

Universal Disk Format (UDF) is a newer file system for CD and DVDdeveloped and managed by the Optical Storage Technology Association as the successor to the ISO 9660 standard. UDF overcomes limitations of ISO 9660 and redirectors such as CDFS. UDF is used to ensure compatibility across platforms, as well as among various CD and DVD applications. UDF is required for DVDs, and is used by DVD to contain MPEG audio/video streams, UDF is also used by CD-R and CD-RW in a process called packet writing that makes CD writing more efficient in terms of the time and disk space required.

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thanks for for the info, i was just about to burn a dvd with a bunch of pictures and songs, for my cousin, he said it would work on his computer. but i told him it wouldn't work if he didn't have a dvd cd-rom.

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Originally posted by JackSparrow
thanks for for the info, i was just about to burn a dvd with a bunch of pictures and songs, for my cousin, he said it would work on his computer. but i told him it wouldn't work if he didn't have a dvd cd-rom.

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a dvd wont work on his computer. But cant u use dvd shrink or another program to analyze the dvd to your computer, and then burn those parts into multilpe cds??

Correct me if im mistaking.

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Originally posted by Nova

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Originally posted by JackSparrow
thanks for for the info, i was just about to burn a dvd with a bunch of pictures and songs, for my cousin, he said it would work on his computer. but i told him it wouldn't work if he didn't have a dvd cd-rom.

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a dvd wont work on his computer. But cant u use dvd shrink or another program to analyze the dvd to your computer, and then burn those parts into multilpe cds??

Correct me if im mistaking.

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if i wanted to do that, wouldn't i have to burn the files onto a dvd first?

dont you already have a dvd? I am confused. Please explain your problem again please with more information.


If you have files on your computer why dont u just burn them on multiple cds?

edit: Dvd disks dont work on cd rom drives

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Originally posted by Nova
dont you already have a dvd? I am confused. Please explain your problem again please with more information.


If you have files on your computer why dont u just burn them on multiple cds?

edit: Dvd disks dont work on cd rom drives

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sorry, i meant i have at least 4.7gb of pictures and songs thati want to pass on to my cousin. and if i use dvdshrink wouldn't i have to burn the dvd in order to split the dvd into multiple files?

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Originally posted by JackSparrow
sorry, i meant i have at least 4.7gb of pictures and songs thati want to pass on to my cousin. and if i use dvdshrink wouldn't i have to burn the dvd in order to split the dvd into multiple files?

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Upload them onto an image host (for free) and give him the URL?

Here would be the easiest thing to do: burn a bunch of CD's. Less hassle and almost guaranteed compatibility

ok then dont use dvd shrink

What u need to do is get multiple blank cd disks like six or seven (depends on how much space is available on the blank cd)

And then just burn them one by one (like in 1 disk is the images and second disk is part of the music). Yes it is a bigger pain then burning it into one big disk but it wont work for them if they dont have a dvd rom.

I hope u understood me.

edit: same as what MeEtc said