BluRay links to compilation clips stops player

2G wrote on 12/20/2008, 2:51 PM
I created and burned a BD and popped it into my player to test. The links on the main menu work fine as well as the link to take you to the second menu. On the second menu, I have several links to various chapters in a compilation. All of the links work correctly in the DVDA emulation "Play DVD" mode. But when I click any of the links on this menu on the actual BD player playing the disc, the player does a hard stop and goes back to the BD player spash screen. No errors/warnings, no pause/hang situation, nothing. It's just as if I had programmed the links to "Stop".

I brought the BD back to my computer and tried playing the disc using the BD player software that came with the burner. Exact same results. Looked for smudges / fingerprints on the BD. Looked clean.

Went back one more time to DVDA and tried the emulator running the project it had just burned. Works fine there.

I guess I could assume it's a bad disc. But it burned fine, and doesn't appear to be giving read errors. I'm not thrilled about wasting another $15 disc just to test at this point. I'd like to try playing the ISO image from the harddrive. I figure that will prove the disc itself as guilty or innocent. But I can't find any way to play the ISO.

First question: any easy way to play the BD ISO image?

Second question: any suggestions other than a bad BD that might be causing this?

Thx.

Comments

David Settlemoir wrote on 12/21/2008, 4:55 PM
I just had the same problem within the hour. I think my problem was I hadn't updated DVDA to 5.0a. Installed the update and am burning again. Hope it works this time printable discs are too high.

David
John_Cline wrote on 12/21/2008, 7:46 PM
"Hope it works this time printable discs are too high."

That's what re-writable Blu-ray discs are for. I always test by burning a rewritable.
2G wrote on 12/22/2008, 9:47 AM
I wouldn't get my hopes up on 5.0a.... :-( I downloaded and installed 5.0a last night and tried again (another 2.5+ hour render/burn) and got the same results.

I also tried deleting the compilation entirely and recreating it from scratch... another 2.5+ hours later, same problem.

I have also found that it is not specifically menu links into the compilation. It fails on a link to the compilation itself.

I'm now creating the compilation outside of DVDA in Vegas and rendering one m2v clip. I'll report back in a few hours.

I guess i'll open a problem ticket. But I know the process.... <soapbox> It'll take a month to get SCS to acknowledge that there is a legitimate problem. If tradition holds the first time, the response to my problem report will be a link to some web site explaining to me what a BluRay disc is, with a "thanks for using Sony software and if we can be of any additional assistance..." I'd rather hit my thumb with a hammer than have to deal with SCS's help(less) desk.... </soapbox>