DVD plays in HomePlayer not Computers

BigDDesign wrote on 3/29/2003, 7:12 PM
I have the new update of DVDA. DVDs burnt with the update play fine in my Samsung Home Player. But they won't play in 2 of my computers when burnt with DVDA. I'm using Power DVD in one computer and Sonic Cinema Player in other. I can get my project to play on my computers if I use the Roxio CD creator that came with my Pioneer A05 and burn the Video_ts and Audio_ts files. But then the DVD Menu won't work on my Home Samsung Player. Power DVD will lock up on me when I play a DVDA burnt DVD disc when I press the play movie button. Strange

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Clyde200 wrote on 3/29/2003, 10:17 PM
I'm using WinDVD and they play fine. Buttons even highlight when the cursor passes over...
Udi wrote on 3/30/2003, 12:44 AM
I had the same problem - and I have a work around.
Make sure that the menus are looped and that the time is at least 5 seconds.
Also make the menus WIDE (in the optimize option). It solved the hangup and menu highlight problems.
BigDDesign wrote on 3/30/2003, 5:08 PM
Thanks,
I will try what you have suggested. Hopefully these issues will be fixed the next update. I'm confident that Sonic Foundry will get the bugs out of the program (hopefuly sooner than later).
DigVid wrote on 4/9/2003, 7:59 AM
BigDDesign,

I also have this problem with (at least) Pioneer 2x (and 1x) DVD-RWs made with my Pioneer A05 and DVDA. The resulting DVDs won't play on my 2 computers each with PowerDVD-XP v4.

The Main Menu will come up fine, but if I try to click or enter to play, the whole thing freezes up and crashes PowerDVD (boo-hiss).

Also, my DVDA DVDs play fine on my Sony DVP-NS755V's and PS2, just NOT on my XP computers.

So, there does seem to be something verifiably amiss. Were you recording DVD-RWs?
DigVid wrote on 4/9/2003, 9:31 AM
UPDATE ***

Okay, weird, weird, weird!

If I play the DVD through WinXP's Media Player 9 (instead of the PowerDVD-XL v4 interface), the DVDs play perfectly! They are fast loading and look great!

Now, I'm leaning toward the reason as some sort of odd PowerDVD problem (even though it's the same engine that makes DVD playback possible - to the max - with MP9).

Oh well, I guess I'll just remove the PowerDVD icon and play my DVDs through MP9...
yirm wrote on 4/9/2003, 3:00 PM
I just tried playing a DVDA-created DVD. Works perfectly in PowerDVD XP4. Crashes WMP. I have DX9a installed.

-Jeremy
DigVid wrote on 4/9/2003, 3:58 PM
Well, I just tried something different and got positive results.

I used DVDA to prepare the DVD, but then actually burned the DVD in RecordNow Max 4.5. The DVD I got plays perfectly in PowerDVD-XP v4 and on my standalone Sony DVP-NS755V - ("perfectly" meaning: Return button works, Title, Chapter, and Time displays work, remaining time works properly).

Also, The same holds true for my Music Compilation DVD. Everything works as it should except in Media Player 9 where it says it can't play because of copyright issues (which may be because the files were reencoded from wma files - I don't know yet). This may be a MS copyguard issue as the same DVD will now play in PowerDVD on the same computer.

So, me thinks that the "burning" software needs work in DVDA for it to work on my WinXP Home PC with a Pioneer A05 (Retail vers of 105) DVD Burner. In the meantime, I will just have to burn in RecordNow Max...