HDTV recorded but not playable in other PCs?

[Summercoolness]

I got an HP Entertainment center (z556), and it can record both SDTV
and HDTV (over the air). The recorded program plays fine in the HP
system, but if I made a data DVD with the dvr-ms file, and play it in
another Dell notebook with Media Center XP, the image is smeared....
(some part of the tv image spreaded over the center of the image)....

and then i tried playing it on other PCs... which I think with the
newest Window Media Player, can play dvr-ms. And it either has no
display or crash....

oh well, we are on the edge of the technology shift... does any one
know a way to play it properly?

(i tried copying the file to the hard drive first... and the image is
about 720 x 360 and i don't see any delay for video rendering, so
probably it is not a speed problem but just the image is smeared.)

 

[Wes Newell]

I got an HP Entertainment center (z556), and it can record both SDTV
and HDTV (over the air). The recorded program plays fine in the HP
system, but if I made a data DVD with the dvr-ms file, and play it in
another Dell notebook with Media Center XP, the image is smeared....
(some part of the tv image spreaded over the center of the image)....

and then i tried playing it on other PCs... which I think with the
newest Window Media Player, can play dvr-ms. And it either has no
display or crash....

oh well, we are on the edge of the technology shift... does any one
know a way to play it properly?

I record all HD broadcast to my server using mythtv. I then watch them at
different locations throughout the network with no problems at all.

 

[thecreator]

Hi ,

Your problem is that you created a DATA DVD instead of creating a VIDEO
DVD.

http://ww2.nero.com/enu/index.html Use Nero and then try it again.

 

[G-squared]

Hi ,

Your problem is that you created a DATA DVD instead of creating a VIDEO
DVD.

http://ww2.nero.com/enu/index.html Use Nero and then try it again.

If he's trying to do HDTV on a DVD, he has no choice but to do a data
format. There is no such thing as a high definition DVD based on the
4.7 gig discs.

I routinely put HD MPEG files on DVDs in data mode that play fine with
Windows Media player on other PCs. I don't know what happens with a Mac
but so what??

GG

 

[Summercoolness]

If he's trying to do HDTV on a DVD, he has no choice but to do a data
format. There is no such thing as a high definition DVD based on the
4.7 gig discs.

I routinely put HD MPEG files on DVDs in data mode that play fine with
Windows Media player on other PCs. I don't know what happens with a Mac
but so what??

yup, i want to save it as HDTV so that some programs will be 720 lines
and some will be 1080 lines. if it is made into a DVD, then it is kind
of limited to 480 lines.

 

[Karyudo]

The recorded program plays fine in the HP
system, but if I made a data DVD with the dvr-ms file, and play it in
another Dell notebook with Media Center XP, the image is smeared....
(some part of the tv image spreaded over the center of the image)....

You dirty, dirty pirate.

Are you allowed to try to play something on another machine? Maybe you
have to ask Microsoft for permission. Or maybe Dell. Or maybe the
MPAA, or RIAA, or FCC, or CIA or FBI or the UN.

(If this isn't the problem now, then don't worry: it will be soon
enough).

You may wish to consider less-proprietary solutions (codecs, software,
hardware, etc.) in the future, to at least eliminate the possibility
of corporate deviousness trumping the technical issues. It could be
that you have no technical problems now, except for some sort of flag
or switch or bit or some other DRM-type hangup.