Testing DVD Files

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I want to be able to test my DVD files after I have authored them to
make sure the menus and everything else works before I waste a DVD. I
can play the VOB files on power DVD, but I cant test the menus that way.
Any recommendations?

Thanks
Chris

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On a sunny day (Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:16:49 -0800) it happened Chris Maness
<chris@PLSNOSPAMchrismaness.com> wrote in <1M7Qd.4159$NY2.364@fe03.lga>:

>I want to be able to test my DVD files after I have authored them to
>make sure the menus and everything else works before I waste a DVD. I
>can play the VOB files on power DVD, but I cant test the menus that way.
> Any recommendations?
DVD RW

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On a sunny day (Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:11:56 GMT) it happened Owamanga
<nomail@hotmail.com> wrote in <gn8211lau59tgbgi7mdcgg1j7r1rlb3aqm@4ax.com>:

>On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:04:22 GMT, Jan Panteltje
><pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>On a sunny day (Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:16:49 -0800) it happened Chris Maness
>><chris@PLSNOSPAMchrismaness.com> wrote in <1M7Qd.4159$NY2.364@fe03.lga>:
>>
>>>I want to be able to test my DVD files after I have authored them to
>>>make sure the menus and everything else works before I waste a DVD. I
>>>can play the VOB files on power DVD, but I cant test the menus that way.
>>> Any recommendations?
>>
>>DVD RW
>
>Presuming your player will play that, this is the best plan.
>
>For me, the cost of $0.29 to burn it straight to DVD-R is a
>no-brainer, compared to the time wasted burning it twice (presuming
>the menus do work as expected, which mine always have - so far).
Agreed, but if you have to make 10 or more DVD+R then testing on a DVD+RW
is for me a must.
Burn time is very short (few minutes) relative to all the processing, rendering,
artwork for menus, perhaps DVD labels, audio processing the works.