Different Players, Different Results

joamoa wrote on 2/24/2003, 9:24 PM
I had some issues with text and graphics being rendered blurry, movie clips ending abruptly, strange jittering of menus. This was on the system that I created the DVD.

When I played the same disc on a set top player, text and graphics looked great, clips ended properly, and only had slight jitter on a menu. Chapter points were not accurate.

I tried the disc on a Mac and found that when skipping chapters the audio makes the switch about 15 frames before the video. Experienced a strange jitter but only on some text not others on the same page. Text was a bit fuzzy bu not as bad as before.

I tried the disc on a laptop and got jittering everywhere, the text was ok, but clips played fine.

It would seem that there is something with the compression scheme that DVDA uses for the menus. Because the hardware based Decoder(set top player) reproduced the text and graphics nicely. Where as the software based Decoders had trouble with them.

Anyone else experiencing inconsistancies?

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Lajko wrote on 2/26/2003, 7:05 PM
I get different results, too.

GoVideo DVD/VHS sometimes skips

Pioneer LD/CD/DVD player plays a little then freezes.

Making a self-running video by using the misuc-DVD technique (since one video can't play the next one automatically like MyDVD or DVD Workshop) it always shows it is on track 2 chapter 0

On some the first video always plays as an auto-start but without any audio.

Other players the menu buttons just don't work and etc. etc. etc.

Things are a little flaky for me to use it for a memorial DVD that some friends want. I'll stick with MyDVD or DVD Workshop until perhaps 1.0-g or 1.1 comes out. It also lacks some of the features of these other programs for automatically going to the next video when one ends.

Other programs zip through the videos then burn them. DVDA re-renders for about 3 hours (2.3 gig processor, EndItAll shut all extra stuff down) before burning.

This DVD was made from a fresh install using all the defaults because I was in a rush and didn't have any time to explore them. If problems are due to the defaults, then maybe the defaults shoudl have the settings set to something a little faster.

But it is a good first effort for a DVD authoring program. Time to play catch-up to the other guys.