DVD's burnt but does not play in machine!!!!!!!

borristheboxer wrote on 3/19/2013, 5:07 AM

Okay I have been using dvda for sometime now & have made many projects & none I repeat NONE have failed. I will say that I have had a great run so far & have been learning something new everytime I use the software...

With all of my projects I have not changes anything from the standard settings excpet for the fact it's PAL 7 Not NTSC & in Australia we use dvd-r not dvd+d disc's

My latest project was finished & ready to burn, so the normal step's I do is to render the video & create it into it's own dvd directory & then go onto making 1 original copy DVD or master disc all from the origninal file (setup) once dvda has finished for the first time. This is a re-writeable dvd for the first disc
After doing this I check the first dvd in 2 machines to make sure it play's fine while the iso file is created...
Once it's created I then burn a new copy & check it before being done with the project This is normal blank dvd.
Within my projects are 2 or 3 menu's with about 4 seperat clips on each menu & they are all linked together to play like a real movie would.

I had a client ring me to say I had a mistake in a video so I corrected the clip & then went into rending a new version only to find its a major problem now.
Once the 1st render is finished & the first disk is made it cannot be played in any of the dvd players that I have! I have even tried burning it to a normal blank disc as a masterbut it also failed. I have also tried 4 different types of disc all of which are no good.
The burn speeds I have used are 8 12 & 16 all of which have failed!! 8 isas slow as the machine can go.
I have tried everything I can think of. The machine settings have not changed at all.
the software has been removed ccleaned the computer & put back on & it does the samething!!!

I have een tried starting making new projects with new & old footage still no good!
I can burn all my older projects & they work perfectly.
All videos are edited in Sony Vegas & no setting have been changed in that either, I am the only person that uses the computer
please help

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PeterDuke wrote on 3/24/2013, 9:08 PM

Please don't say DVD when you mean BD (Blu-ray Disc), as it leads to confusion. The generic term for CD, DVD and BD is "optical disc".

MSmart wrote on 3/25/2013, 12:29 AM

Example: on the disk it would be 15 races...

So what happens when you select those races from the menu?

When you double click on the race in DVDAS, does the correct file show up in the Media Properties > Track Media tab? Is the next race the Destination in the End Action tab?

Go through each race and verify each tab in Media Properties to make sure all is as expected. Something could have changed. Especially if you had to re-render a race and add it back into DVDAS.

borristheboxer wrote on 3/26/2013, 2:12 AM

Okay after resaving all the video's on disk 1 a total of 23 clips to the way all of you have said to, as in dvda template & doing the auido seperaly the same problem still happens.
I burnt the disk with image burn & also with the standard img burner program that comes with windows 7.

The video was made with all new menu's or from sctrach. I used the same pictures to make the menu's but thats all
in total 4 menu's
menu 1 & 2 work perfectly or race 1 - 8 with 1 interview
menu page 3 & 4 have the clip's or race's showing as the are animated but they freeze when they are being played on the dvd machines, but work fine int he computer dvd player.

I have changed the media properties to go race 1 then onto race 2 etc. they used to go back to the main menu
thats the only changes done

borristheboxer wrote on 3/26/2013, 5:16 AM

So I thought I'd get creative & split the disc into 2. Stopping at the menu that had the problems & put all that part onto another disc.
On this disk was race 9 - 17
The first menu works all okay except for 1 clip race 13 that never had a problem before
2nd menu worked with out an issue.
After re-saving the problem clip & burning a fresh disc again with img burn it was a different clip that gave fault race 16...
This time on menu 2 which never had an issue!
I just don't understand why it's doing this on a totally different clip.
Both discs are 2.4 gig in size.
The actual event disc before being cut was 4.2 before going to burn, only needed to render the menu system

Former user wrote on 3/26/2013, 9:15 AM

At this point, I would do the DVD from scratch. Something has gotten corrupted in the project and you will just end up beating your head against the wall if you keep trying to modify it.

Dave T2

borristheboxer wrote on 3/26/2013, 1:52 PM

It was a whole new project before I split the disc
It all fits on 1 disc & is the way I want the project to be

MSmart wrote on 3/27/2013, 7:19 PM

I'm running out of ideas as to what's going on with your disc image.

Try this... In Make DVD > Prepare, click on Advanced and uncheck Enable smart prepare.

But then again, if you started a new project, all clips would be recoded anyway.

For kicks, post the View > Text result from MediaInfo from one of the clips that you have a problem with.

Is it just the animated button in the menu that is freezing or the video after you select the button to play it?

It might be time to copy the ISO file to a USB stick and try burning it on a different PC.

borristheboxer wrote on 3/28/2013, 11:34 PM

I tried what you said & remade the project with the box unticked... No change it pauses on the 3rd menu
Will be making the project over again but this time I'm not going to link any of the video's just let them go bac to the main menu again or the default.
Also will try to burn the ISo file on another PC just see what's going on.

borristheboxer wrote on 4/1/2013, 6:33 AM

Just to give an update.
After 2 weeks of trying different ideas & methods I have removed DVDA & reinstalled an older version
I think it's build 128... It works flawlessly & has made the project without fail. Both image & direct burn to disc have not faulted as yet. Tomorrow will watch the dish's completely from start to finish but on a quick skip over all clips they all seem to be working just fine & linking correctly to the next clip....
Just goes to show you shouldn't update your software!!!!