DVD Compatibility with DVD Players

t6dlees wrote on 12/28/2004, 10:01 AM

PLEASE HELP!! I have completed my first film on DVD but cannot create a DVD that is highly compatible with other players. Here's what I have so far:

1. Captured and edited DV Film using Sony Vegas 5.0
2. Rendered in Vegas 5.0 to MPEG2
3. Compiled DVD in DVD Architect 2 - got all the updates
4. Updated Firmware on my Burner (Micro Advantage IDE Internal Drive)
5. Created the VIDEO_TS AUDIO_TS files using DVDA 2.0
6. Burned the DVD using NERO 6.6 - got all the updates

The DVD Plays fine on my computer and my DVD Player at home, but almost every other DVD Player (5 that I know of) will only play half of the movie (It's 50 minutes long) and then it just freezes up. Stops playing, and you cannot get it continue. I'm using DVD-R media.

If I use Sony media, will this compatibility problem go away?
Does it matter if I burn at 1X, 2X, or 4X speed?
How does the different Burn Speeds affect compatibility with DVD Players?
What does the different burn speeds affect?

What is the best approach for producing the highest quality, highly compatible DVD?

Please help.

Charlie

Comments

Slipstick wrote on 12/28/2004, 11:17 AM

I have also had some issues with DVD's 'locking up' or having those annoying little pixel 'artifacts' show up. Something I found helps a lot is to a)dedicate a small partition on the HDD (about 10Gig) to DVD production only, b) copy or move any files you want to save to another location for archive/backup and c) completely erase (including 'empty trash') or reformat that partition, between jobs. If the work area gets cluttered with fragmented files, all kinds of strange things will happen during DVD burns. Hope this helps

zstevek wrote on 12/28/2004, 8:03 PM

What speed did you render your MPEG-2?

Don't render it higher then 8 MBps or you can get compatibility problems.

I once rendered a MPEG-2 (for DVD) at 9.8 MBps and it played fine on my computer, but forget about it when you put it in an older DVD player.