DVD Compatibility Issues?

ECB wrote on 9/4/2005, 9:31 AM

I searched the forum and found one incompatibility issue where the DVD burned with DVDA3 could not be read on several stand-alone DVD players. I will be sending out a lot of burned DVDs, single and DL, and I would like to avoid returns, DVD types aside, because of burn problems. I have worked with Gear Pro, which claims to be produce 100% compatible DVDs. I would prefer to use DVDA3 but I am not sure it produces as compatable DVDs as Gear.

Ed B

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johnmeyer wrote on 9/4/2005, 12:18 PM

This was discussed just a few weeks ago here:

MPEG-2 Rendering - DVD-compliant output

Perhaps this is the thread you referred to. Bottom line, as I mentioned in that thread, there are many problems with DVDA3, but I am pretty sure that compatibility is not one of them. The media itself, the bitrate used for rendering (if you rendered the MPEG-2 elsewhere), the overall bitrate (if you use PCM for audio, it is easy to forget that the total bitrate has been exceeded), are just a few of the reasons why a disk may become unreadable in some players.

ECB wrote on 9/4/2005, 12:53 PM

John, thanks for your response. I did not pick up that thread in the search. I agree that the majority of DVD compatibility issues are caused by a violation of specs or bad media and not by the burning software. I have authored and burned a lot of DVDs with DVDA3 and never had a DVD that was not readable. As part of my testing I have one very early Panasonic stand-alone DVD player that is very touchy. You have confirmed what I have found. :)

BTW I don't know if you have tried Gear's layer-break methodology but it is tedious at best. DVDA3 gives the exact same capability with an abstraction layer that makes it easy to use.

Ed