Let this thread be for all personal DVD burning related information like:
Sydney:
Capital Square has the cheapest and most reliable DVD's i could find here in Sydney.
They are printable and can be burned with x8 speed, and costs 15 au per 50 DVD's, The DVD manufacturer is called Ritek.
When burning:
When you are burning DVD's your main concern is compatibility. There is a difference between a PC's DVD drive and a DVD player.
First rule that i follow whenever burning DVD's for whomever is to burn them at the lowest speed. Thou i found that today's DVD burners burn their DVD's with much higher compatibility than just few years ago. Still - old DVD readers might have problems with reading DVD's that where burned fast - this goes especially to the cheap DVD players that could/can be bought for peanuts. And some older LG players ) from my personal experience )
This falls down to the DVD readers error correction system. ( DVD burners do not make 1 to 1 burns, they make errors during the process, the faster you burn, more errors are likely to be made )
PC drives are commonly more compatible with whatever you feed them. Whenever a DVD is damaged/has a defect or is just not created properly, a PC is capable of overcoming that ether directly, thanks to the drive error correction system or though software that user uses to play his things and can just skip frames without you noticing it.
DVD players are limited, and some of them are deliberately created to not read burned DVD's ( i dont know if that still holds at present ).
Further to that DVD player is enforced with restrictions that i think where created to limit piracy ( or where developed from corporate fights ).
Those are called Encoding Systems and there are 3 types of them:
PAL
NSTC
SECAM
PAL being the most popular used in most of Asian and Europe's Countries, also used in Australia. Whenever you want to extend your DVD compatibility, you will have to consider those aspects. But most likely you will be burning your DVD's in PAL format, since it is the only standard used in Australia.
more info
how to make your DVD:
There are several ways to do it
NERO
The easiest way would be though Nero burning software. This program can allow you to create your own DVD video out of various types of video files like mpg or avi. Thou it is not free, and even if you got Nero for free with your burner, Nero will somehow entice you into buying their special mpeg codec.
Nero advantage is that is simple and fast to use, and any user that can browse the web could use it.
Xilisoft's DVD creator
Xilisoft is famed for making bilions of little programs that they charge little sums for. Imagine that you would have to use a sperate player for plaing music other for rating it and other for waching movies and other for watching dvd's ect. Xilisoft will dice up any idea into peaces and sell diverent software to You.
Thou i have to say that their DVD creator is a reasonably made software that can also create a simple menu for your DVD.
Xilisoft DVD creator advantage is that its simple and can create simple menus.
unfortunately i have not found any software that does not costs AND is reliable, and will allow you to create your DVD or create your VOB files alone even.
burning the raw avi file seems too work for playback with an xbox 360 or PS3. and giving the state of consumerism its pretty safe too say 90% of the populace should be able to play a copy of this without having to run speacialty decoding software or specialty burning on the topic of VOB files im a student not a teacher in that department 
In perth we are looking at getting a multistack dvd burner so that we can do lots ourselves, but it might be worth looking as a national effort, doing a large batch for a cheaper price.
LOL DAVID YOUR CRAZY, did you ask the shop to order in all those stacks for you?
In perth we are looking at getting a multistack dvd burner so that we can do lots ourselves, but it might be worth looking as a national effort, doing a large batch for a cheaper price.
I agree. Distributing copies of the DVD's is really the most effective way we can spread the word. It should be our first priority to have each chapter set up with a well documented & efficient system for copying and distributing PAL format DVDs. Anyone want to look into that?
*We'd need to know how many copies we'd go through nationally and per chapter in about 6 months (maybe by doing a trial run based off a 1 month estimate)
*What is the most efficient way of producing copies?
*Weather it's best to have a centralized stock of copies which are then posted to chapters or to have each chapter arrange their own stock
VOB Merge
Its a simple program that allows you to merge VOB files.
VOB files contain the actual movie in a DVD quality movie.
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