What Kind of DVD's...

[rblimas]

Originally Posted by jstein12

You utilize the "driving hack" to still see the songs and albums on the screen.

My music DVD shows a custom pic of my ride in the background.

Being as the hack locks out the controls, it still recognizes the voice commands.

I merely say next.

i see you know a lot about this nav...i was wondering if you can help me...i have a problem with my nav, it wont play dvd's and it wont play the map disk...i put a dvd or map disk in and it sounds like it wants to play it but then like a min. or two latter it just spits it out and it is HOT...any thoughts?

[jstein12]

Originally Posted by rblimas

i see you know a lot about this nav...i was wondering if you can help me...i have a problem with my nav, it wont play dvd's and it wont play the map disk...i put a dvd or map disk in and it sounds like it wants to play it but then like a min. or two latter it just spits it out and it is HOT...any thoughts?

If the disc is that hot, it indicates that the unit was trying like hell to read it.

When this happens, surface sratches and errors could actually be created on the disc. Don't try the same disc(might be toast). With the car in park, insert any DVD movie you may have.

Assuming you have clean disc's (clean them like hell properly), it sounds like the dvd reader is at fault. The next step is to try using a cleaning type disc to clean the pickups of the reader (best buy, whatever).

The DVD reader on our caddy's are not much unlike the one's we have on our PC's. If you took the panel out, this would be self evident. However the bios and firmware of the player is unique.

You are saying you've been out of business with this all along?

Please elaborate - Joe

[jstein12]

Originally Posted by 250motorsportz

Does the navi play VCD's? Like to play music videos, etc.

Well, tried it today as promised. Also tried an svcd.

These formats are NOT recognized by the reader. Probably intentional by Caddy not wanting to so. I'm sure a simple firmware flash could do it, but alas.

You could still transcode VCD's & SVCD's to the proper DVD(vob,TS,ifo) structure very easily. Much software out there to do it.

Just as a note, VCD's are Mpeg 1 very lossy compression (except for today's higher quality Mpeg 4's). I wouldn't use them anyhow.

[MikeB066]

The DVD drive won't recognize anything other than a properly formatted DVD, finalized DVD-R, or anything else you might play throught your at home DVD player. Trying to render VCD, SVCD, MPG or other will only end in frustration and angst. Maybe you might get lucky and get it to recognize a DVD-RW but at the media cost it is not worth trying. The DVD system is pretty selective and picky about what it will play.

You should be able to play rented DVD's from Blockbuster, Netflicks, etc. but the only way you are going to play burned DVD's is if you have an appropriate "backup" applicaion and are writing to DVD-R discs. Anything other than that and you are on your own.

Also, there is no MP3 decoder in the DVD nav system, so MP3 discs are coasters. If you want to listen to that much music, you have to rip it to .wav and write it to an audio DVD, or a DVD without video.

[jstein12]

Originally Posted by MikeB066

Also, there is no MP3 decoder in the DVD nav system, so MP3 discs are coasters. If you want to listen to that much music, you have to rip it to .wav and write it to an audio DVD, or a DVD without video.

Agrred,

However there is software to render your MP'3's to DVD vob format.

I have dvd's with 2000 songs on them with playlists,menus,custom graphics etc. Not only that!, but they are rendered in AC3 Surround. Sounds tremendous on the bose system.

I'm hearing nuances in the music I've never heard before, even though they've been my favorites for years.

[rblimas]

Originally Posted by jstein12

If the disc is that hot, it indicates that the unit was trying like hell to read it.

When this happens, surface sratches and errors could actually be created on the disc. Don't try the same disc(might be toast). With the car in park, insert any DVD movie you may have.

Assuming you have clean disc's (clean them like hell properly), it sounds like the dvd reader is at fault. The next step is to try using a cleaning type disc to clean the pickups of the reader (best buy, whatever).

The DVD reader on our caddy's are not much unlike the one's we have on our PC's. If you took the panel out, this would be self evident. However the bios and firmware of the player is unique.

You are saying you've been out of business with this all along?

Please elaborate - Joe

OK i just tried a cleaning disk let it sit in there for 10 min. and then just took it

out and put a normal dvd in and it just still tried to reed it and nothing...this

time it made a crackal noise every few seconds and never spit the disk out.

any thoughts?

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I think it depends on your nav. Coz I tried DVD+R w/ my old nav (03 DVD) and it didn't work. But the dealer broke my nav so they replaced it, and it plays both DVD-R and DVD+R.