This may or may not be a DVDA issue. I've heard back from several clients that the DVDs stop playing at a certain point. It seems the ones that stop do so at the same point in the video. I test before I send them out but I only have 2-3 machines to test on. Any clue? Best practices? I'm using a duplicator with 10 bays. The last batch of DVDs were Phillips-R.
Are they stopping in the middle of content or in between something? (chapters or other files). Are these single or dual sided disks? Is there any consistency on the brand of DVD players the clients are using? How many DVDs were made and how many of those show this problem?
They are stopping in the middle of content. One thing I might do is go back into DVDa and take out all of the markers,. These are single sided discs and I used verbatim last time... trying Phillips now. Now sure what they are playing them on.. they just said several laptops. and a few DVDs (but they are selling them... so one is too many)
I think David may be onto something. Are these dual-layer discs -- with video that runs over 60 minutes? That point where the disc switches to its second track is notoriously a weak link for a lot of DVD players.
No. They are single layer and run about an hour and 45
This is an old thread, but may be worth reading.
Do you remember which max data rate you used for MPEG-2 encoding? It sometimes happens players doesn't catch high peaks.