Burned DVD Behaving Erratically

hurricane wrote on 10/10/2007, 2:32 AM

I've got two problems with burned DVDs form DVDA 4.0.

The first is that there is no background music track, even though it plays perfectly when I preview the video.

The second has to do with the Next button. Works perfectly in preview, but it skips two chapters when I use it on the burned DVD. Even stranger is that it only skips the chapters if I start playing the DVD from the beginning. If I start on the second chapter, it finds the rest of the chapters in sequence.

This happens when playing on my PC using Poer DVD and when I play in my standalone DVD player. But it previews fine in DVD Architect.

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Galeng wrote on 10/10/2007, 2:49 AM

I have encountered your first issue also. But I have found the problem has always been my DVD player. Have taken it to a different DVD player and it worked fine.

Have also had problems with the Next button twice. I was only able to solve that problem by recreating the project from scratch both times. So, I figure it was something I did, but could never figure out what I did wrong. (so, maybe it wasn't me after all!)

Could you please post how you end up resolving the issues.

Thanks,

Galen

hurricane wrote on 10/10/2007, 5:14 AM

I've tried it in three different players, and it behaves the same in all three. I'll try some more things to fix it, but so far I've spent an inordinate time trying to get this work.

You know, I only recently began using DVD Architect. I've been using Ulead's DVD Workshop, which is probably 5 years old. I've been hoping that Corel would do some development on the product and bring out a new version, but so far that hasn't happened.

I haven't yet found an area where DVD Architect is superior to DVD Workshop, and plenty of areas where DVD Workshop is superior to DVD Architect. But I'm going to work hard and see if it's worth the time to learn it.

Galeng wrote on 10/10/2007, 6:34 PM

Hurricane,

I came the opposite route. Moved from DVD Workshop 2 to DVDA. DVD WS was a great program and it's unfortunate they never did anything more with it.

What I am liking about DVDA is being able to use psd files to design backgrounds, button and highlight masks, etc. Once I got past the learning curve on that (i wasn't a photoshop user prior to DVDA) I find being able to create masks, etc. that fit the intent of the DVD topic really fun and challenging.

hurricane wrote on 10/11/2007, 2:25 AM

Galeng,

I ended up re-creating the projest in DVD Workshop.

I agree -- I'm hoping Corel will turn their attention to DVD WS now that they've come up with new versions of DVD Movie Maker and Video Studio.

DVD WS has a lot of ease-of-use features that DVDA doesn't have. On the other hand, DVDA has some depth of features that DVD WS doesn't have. DVD WS feels like they stopped just short of completing their feature set (text manipulation in particular), but of course they stopped working on it about the time DVD Architect first came out.