DVD for PC

So I have to burn a disc of a quicktime for a couple of PC handicapped people and I just want to make sure, if I burn it a s a regular dvd, will they be able to play it, or should I just burn the file onto a disk and let them load onto their hard drive to watch it?

Without knowing what playback capabilities their PCs may have it would seem that a standard video DVD would be the safest approach. This, of course, assumes that their PCs are equipped with DVD-ROM drives and that they have DVD player software. Then the only question becomes that of media compatibility (i.e. DVD-R or DVD+R or what brand of disc).
Here are a couple of tips when creating the DVDs:
1.) Don't exceed 7Mbps encoding rates when creating your MPEG2s.
2.) Burn the DVD at the lowest possible rate (burn at 1X rather than 4X, etc.).
3.) Don't use stick-on or press-on paper or plastic labels. These may cause an imbalance in the disc which can upset some DVD players. If you must provide some form of disc marking or label consider using one of the special ink-jet printers that can write directly upon the surface of the DVD itself. Otherwise, just practice your handwriting and drawing skills and use one of the special CD/DVD marking pens.
If all of the above fails try a different brand or type of writable DVD.

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Not sure if this is possible...and through searching
a few previous posts it sounds like it may require
additional software...but what the heck, thought I'd
ask anyway ! I operate in UK and have made several
FCE movies for friends in the UK which I've burnt
onto a DVD and sent to them as gifts. Now I want to
do the same for a friend in the States, and I'm
wondering how to go about the PAL>>NTSC issue. Would
it be easiest to just take the PAL-dvd and pay
somebody at Jessops etc to convert it onto a NTSC dvd
for me? I don't mind paying a few quid for someone
else to do it, especially if it would require me to
go out and buy all kinds of software to be able to do
it myself... But I'm worried about how the picture
files, music, titling, special effects etc would come
out. Anybody have any experience with this? Thanks.
Toast 7.x is able to burn a PAL-project on a NTSC-dvd. In the preferences of Toast you can decide wether the output will be a PAL- or a NTSC-dvd.
For friends in Brazil I burned a NTSC-dvd, but I still don't know if it works!
Give it a try on a dvd-rw.
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