1st Attempt Failure-Only Burned Data??

KRyan wrote on 11/24/2009, 8:46 AM

I just tried burning my first DVD, and though DVDA said it created it successfully, the DVD won't play in a DVD player. The only contents on the disc are: Only CONTROL.DAT, DDPID and IMAGE.DAT.

Did I miss something in the process to tell DVDA to create a video DVD or something?

My project is 3 short videos, a menu with some music looping, and "extras folder" for bonus audio content for the user.

Thanks.

Ryan

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 11/24/2009, 9:05 AM

I'd say so. Your DVD should have a folder in it called VIDEO_TS, at the very least.

Without knowing what you did though it's hard to say what went wrong.

KRyan wrote on 11/24/2009, 9:34 AM

I got it to work! I had burned a Master to a folder on my hard drive, then "burned the contents of the mastered folder." I don't know why that didn't work. But when I simply prepared the current project, and then burned from the "prepared" folder, it worked fine.

I guess I'll just have to learn as I go:). It came out great though, for my first try!

Thanks for the quick replies!

Ryan

Former user wrote on 11/24/2009, 9:44 AM

A DVD has to created by a program that knows what a DVD is. If you just dragged the folder to a blank disk using windows burn software, it probably won't work. You can use Nero or Imgburn (free) to burn a DVD folder.

But as you can see, you can burn straight from DVDA as well.

Dave T2

bStro wrote on 11/24/2009, 11:41 AM

A "master" contains files necessary for a DVD replication facility. The people / software at such a facility know what to do with the files you previously created -- a DVD player does not. ;)

Rob