Are dvds made in window playable in linux?

[gargoyle47]

Are dvds made in window playable in linux?
I know not a lot of people are using linux as there main system, compared to Window. However for those who are using linux , do you have any problem getting you system to recognize dvds created in Windows?

I am using Ubuntu as my operating system and I can not get it to recognize any dvd that was created in Windows.

The dvds in question play under Windows with no problem.

Under Ubuntu I can do the following:
Play standard commercial movies
Load and retrieve data from dvd-rw's
Play VCDs made by me.
Load and retrieve data from cd-rw's

So I can do most of what I would expect Ubuntu should do.
So any ideas as to what is preventing Ubuntu from see the disk?

[shoarthing]

Are dvds made in window playable in linux?
I know not a lot of people are using linux as there main system, compared to Window. However for those who are using linux , do you have any problem getting you system to recognize dvds created in Windows?

I am using Ubuntu as my operating system and I can not get it to recognize any dvd that was created in Windows.

The dvds in question play under Windows with no problem.

Under Ubuntu I can do the following:
Play standard commercial movies
Load and retrieve data from dvd-rw's
Play VCDs made by me.
Load and retrieve data from cd-rw's

So I can do most of what I would expect Ubuntu should do.
So any ideas as to what is preventing Ubuntu from see the disk? . . a little confused by the way you've put things: exactly which kinds of optical disk can you not view or write to in Linux? . . FWIW I can view & write to +/- formats; R & RW; whether made in Windows or Linux. You may perhaps have hassles with data-disks containing files larger than 2GB unless you have written them as UDF data-disks, or unless you have set your version of Linux to mount 'em as UDF.

[kharan5876]

If the dvd's you burned are movies they should play in linux no problem. If its a datadisk it may depend on what filesystem is used on the disk and if your linux kernel has support for it enabled.

[nm]

However, if they are supposed to be movie disks (DVD Video) and still don't play in Linux, it is possible that the Windows burning app has not used the standard UDF/ISO9660 bridge filesystem, but simply ISO9660 for example. Actually k3b has had this problem in some versions too. Linux DVD players expect to find an UDF filesystem on video disks. You can get around this by mounting the disk and using MPlayer, VLC or some other player to play from the mounted directory. For example: mplayer -dvd-device /media/dvd dvd://1 or File->Open directory in VLC.

[gargoyle47]

It seems I have found my answer possibly to my problem.
It turns out to be the disks them self.

I know people have said to use quality disk in the past. So this is part of the problem here.

I basically use 2 different types of disks so far.
Playo
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Unique Disc Identifier : [DVD+R:AML-002-000]
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Disc & Book Type : [DVD+R] - [DVD+R]
Manufacturer Name : [Anwell Precision Technology]
Manufacturer ID : [AML]
Media Type ID : [002]
Product Revision : [Not Specified]
Blank Disc Capacity : [2,295,104 Sectors = 4.70 GB (4.38 GiB)]
Recording Speeds : [1x-2.4x , 4x , 6x-8x]
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[ DVD Identifier V4.2.0 - http://DVD.Identifier.CDfreaks.com ]
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Nexxtech

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Unique Disc Identifier : [DVD-R:UME01]
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Disc & Book Type : [DVD-R] - [DVD-R]
Manufacturer Name : [Ume Disc Manufacturing Ltd.]
Manufacturer ID : [UME01]
Blank Disc Capacity : [2,298,496 Sectors = 4.71 GB (4.38 GiB)]
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[ DVD Identifier V4.2.0 - http://DVD.Identifier.CDfreaks.com ]
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It turns out that every disk made by Playo does not work in Ubuntu but works in WinXp. These disk are advertised (Staples) as 8x burn rate but only will burn at 4x. Yes they are you cheap media, at $5.00 for 50. One other point here is that 2 different machines were use to test out the disks, this in itself could be a factor in the problem.

Now the disks labeled Nexxtech play in both Ubuntu and WinXP. Again this was on 2 different machines. These disk were also cheap media at $8.00 for 50.

One point for both media is both are 8x but I alway burnt at 4x never at the advertised rate of 8x.

So maybe some of the problems in fact are do to the media, maybe you might want to check the quality of the media.

I found that Video Help website has a data base of various disk you can search through if you want to know how good a particular disk is.

So is this the final answer to the question about the dvds, I really can not say for sure but this is what I discovered about my problem.

I would like to thank all of you that replied to my post for you help.