DVD Sticking

colins wrote on 6/24/2011, 11:55 PM

I have been struggling with this for a week now - please help!

Although when I play the completed DVD on my computer, and there is no problem, when I play it in a DVD it keeps sticking and then recovering.

I assumed it was the DVD player, so I borrowed a friends, but it is still doing it.

Could it be any settings in either Vegas Pro (9), or DVD Architect Pro 5, or is it something else?

I have tried burning the DVD from the standard way in Architect as well as outputting a ISO file and burning the DVD usung Roxio Media Creator...

I would be grateful for any help!

My PC is a Sony VAIO and it has 4GB RAM

I have noticed that when I prepare to burn the image file on Architect, it shows the drive as a DVD+R but I am burning the image file to DVD-R. Don't know if that is significant?

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 6/25/2011, 8:01 AM

Well, the program doesn't care if you're burning a DVD-R or DVD+R. It's writing the same VIDEO_TS folder to your disc in any event.

Most likely it's a problem with the disc itself:
1) What brand of disc is it? Verbatims are some of the most consistently good. Memorex is some of the most consistently bad. Store brands vary wildly.
2) Never burn your disc at faster than 4x. Burning more slowly increases the odds that your player will be able to play it.
3) Never put a label on your disc or write on it with a heavy marker than can smear or gum up the inside of your DVD player or knock your disc off balance.

Finally, I recommend just preparing the DVD files in DVD Architect and then using ImgBurn (a free download) to burn the VIDEO_TS folder to a disc. After ImgBurn creates your disc, it verifies it to ensure the disc's integrity. On discs that ImgBurn has burned and verified, I've had nearly 100% playability on DVD players. (As I say in my book, not all disc players play home-burned DVDs equally well -- but this is the best way to increase the odds of success.)

colins wrote on 6/26/2011, 9:58 AM

Thanks very much for replying Steve. I am using Sony and Verbatim DVDs.

I used imgburn at 2x and it still did not work. In desparation, I resorted to my old Dell Inspiron as that's what I used before and it worked ok.

Having checked out the settings for DVD Architect Pro were the same, the only difference between the programs and machines were:

The Dell is 32 bit - my new Sony Vaio is 64 bit

On DVD Architect Pro, when burning, it says down the bottom of the window - media DVD-R; on the VAIO, it says - media DVD+R. I only use DVD-R

Weird!?

Could it be the 64 bit machine?

Colin

Steve Grisetti wrote on 6/26/2011, 4:07 PM

I suppose the 64-bit driver isn't interfacing correctly with the program. That could possibly explain the weirdness.

But playability is usually a media (disc) issue. Especially since the disc seems to play fine on your computer -- but not your DVD player.

Though, in your case, maybe it is a software/operating system issue.