I have a continued problem with my burned DVDs, they always either lag + skips in the sound, or they simply wont play. In case the DVD wont play, i simply get a "no disc" or "unknown disc" error.
The problem is not with the Player, doing a search for mentioned errors with DVD outside the quotes will give a lot results on google, so this is not a rare problem, clearly the manufacturers of these devices must be doing something wrong.
I also got this feeling, that DVD-Players are far more sensitive for some reason, and most of them have a unusual short life-time compared to drives for the PC.
I have never had a single player that didn't have some sort of problem, on the other hand i've never had a drive for the PC fail for years of usage.
I've spend hours searching for a solution, but none of those suggested of which I've found are of any value. Most of them only mentions the obvious, (check disk for scratches etc).
Verbatims - Wont play on my own player, and I'm getting reports that they lag and freeze on some players.
Imation - Single try, worked on my own player. Unknown format I.e. -r or +r (my player is said to support both)
The Imation disk also worked on a second player, where the Verbatims didn't, so I'm going to try those again at some point.
I've found that the problem is related to the media I'm using, maybe my Burner has some influence as well. But again I've had it work sometimes, where it would still fail the majority of times.
Tests on PCs shows that nothing is wrong with the DVDs, and again some players also appears to play them without problems.
I cant provide you with models of these players, but luckily it usually doesn't have anything to do with the model, atleast not from the results I've been getting, the results indicate a problem with the media, sometimes using a different media solves the problem on some players, while it might pose problems for other players (untested).
I've also looked at the settings in DVD Architect, but i don't see anything which would have any (to me) obvious effects on playback. However I'm rather unsure about the "DDP" setting, as far as i can tell, this should just be left at DDP 2.10 for normal DVDs.
Maybe some of you have delt with this issue before?
The problem is not with the Player, doing a search for mentioned errors with DVD outside the quotes will give a lot results on google, so this is not a rare problem, clearly the manufacturers of these devices must be doing something wrong.
I also got this feeling, that DVD-Players are far more sensitive for some reason, and most of them have a unusual short life-time compared to drives for the PC.
I have never had a single player that didn't have some sort of problem, on the other hand i've never had a drive for the PC fail for years of usage.
I've spend hours searching for a solution, but none of those suggested of which I've found are of any value. Most of them only mentions the obvious, (check disk for scratches etc).
Verbatims - Wont play on my own player, and I'm getting reports that they lag and freeze on some players.
Imation - Single try, worked on my own player. Unknown format I.e. -r or +r (my player is said to support both)
The Imation disk also worked on a second player, where the Verbatims didn't, so I'm going to try those again at some point.
I've found that the problem is related to the media I'm using, maybe my Burner has some influence as well. But again I've had it work sometimes, where it would still fail the majority of times.
Tests on PCs shows that nothing is wrong with the DVDs, and again some players also appears to play them without problems.
I cant provide you with models of these players, but luckily it usually doesn't have anything to do with the model, atleast not from the results I've been getting, the results indicate a problem with the media, sometimes using a different media solves the problem on some players, while it might pose problems for other players (untested).
I've also looked at the settings in DVD Architect, but i don't see anything which would have any (to me) obvious effects on playback. However I'm rather unsure about the "DDP" setting, as far as i can tell, this should just be left at DDP 2.10 for normal DVDs.
Maybe some of you have delt with this issue before?