DVD burned using DVDA/pioneer A06J cant play on SONY DVD player

rllagas wrote on 7/26/2003, 7:37 AM
I have just burned my 1st DVD using DVDA but when I played it on SONY DVD player it only played the 1st chapter.

I only have 4 chapters picture slideshow....one chapter contains 10 pictures and one song.

the 1st chapter played well but when it comes to the next chapter......i got a display...."disc is dirty" on the dvd player.

I however can play the 4 chapters using Intervideo WinDVD player in my PC.

looks like there is an error on the disc that is interpreted by the SONY player as dirty.
i used maxell DVD-RW.

or my player is perhaps choosy.

any comment please.

rommel

Comments

JSWTS wrote on 7/26/2003, 1:11 PM
I suspect the problem is the disc, and probably not the authoring. Recordable media in general doesn't have as wide of set top player acceptance as replicated (Hollywood and the like) media. As far as the recordable media are concerned, the write once (DVD+R and DVD-R) perform the best, and the rewriteable stuff (DVD+RW and DVD-RW) come in often as a distant second. In my experience with older (~ 1 year or older) Sony players, they tend to be pretty picky about what they will play. The two Sony players my family own won't play a rewriteable dvd's at all.

Jim
johnmeyer wrote on 7/26/2003, 7:57 PM
I've had problems with my dad's Sony DVD player playing the discs I send to him. I have authored some of these in DVD-A and some in Moviefactory. I have used different discs. In addition, I have used different bitrates. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to sort out which is the culprit in those discs that don't play. I suspect it is the media, but I haven't yet proved that. I have not had any problems with Maxell 2X media, which various postings and articles on testing all claim to be the most compatible with the widest variety of players.

If you don't mind spending a few $$, go out and buy a few Maxell discs (Staples carries them) and burn one of the exact same DVDs that you already created and that won't play.

FWIW, when the discs don't play on my dad's player, I get the same thing: it brings up the menu, and sometimes plays 5-10 seconds of the clip, but that's it.
farss wrote on 7/26/2003, 8:47 PM
There a number of variables involved which makes it all very confusing. Media reflectivity is just one of them. You can troll around VCDHelp.com but that can just get you mighty depressed.

I'm still trying to resolve a real curly problem, burnt a DVD onto DVD-RW media yesterday, plays fine in 2 out of 3 players (third one has never played DVD - /+ anyway). Burnt exactly the same thing onto DVD+R and that only plays on my older and cheaper DVD player. Just to confuse me I have a DVD+RW disc with 1000s of MP3s on it. The box that won't play the DVD+R Video plays the MP3s on the DVD+RW.