DVD PLaying Problem

JJKizak wrote on 8/21/2006, 11:15 AM

My friend sent me two DVD's he made, one DVD-R on a Maxwell 4.7 gig and the other on a Memorex DVD+R 4.7 gig. The Maxwell plays fine on my set top players (JVC & LG) and Nero in the computers. The Memorex plays about 1/2 way through on the set top players and then goes bananas but plays fine in the computers with Nero.
If I make copies of both in DVD-A3c they both play fine in the computers (Nero) but both set top players will reject the discs. I believe they were originally burned with Ulead. Is there a solution other than my friend trying to burn them again?

JJK

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ScottW wrote on 8/21/2006, 1:46 PM

Just to make sure - you're just using DVDA to burn the VIDEO_TS folder that you copied from the DVD's, right?

What kind of media are you burning too? -R or +R? If it's +R and you aren't burning with a DVD-ROM booktype, do your set-top players support +R media?

Have you tried to use Nero to do the burn?

I've run into situations with many set-top DVD recorders where they create slightly non-compliant DVD structures; attempts to copy these with DVDA or Nero result in DVD's that look ok (they play on the computer), but they will not play on set-top players. I've found that CopyToDVD (www.vso-software.com) will fix the error when burning and thus the copies are then playable. CopyToDVD has a fully functional 30 day free trial.

--Scott

JJKizak wrote on 8/21/2006, 2:17 PM

I'm using -R media with DVD-A3c. I will give Nero a try. The LG supports +- R and the JVC supports only -R. What is crazy is that the JVC will play the +R up to the middle of the disc.

JJK

JJKizak wrote on 8/22/2006, 6:59 AM

I used Nero and the problems went away. Wondering outloud if this is intentionally built into DVD-A3 as a copyright DRM type thing.
JJK