DVD works on computer but not the tv

Annapolis wrote on 11/5/2003, 1:08 PM
So what is going on with this?! I have made many DVD's using DVDA. On my current project, I am burning with super high grade blank DVD's and I produced a DVD that works fantastic on a computer. When I put it in several DVD players for TV, they were not reconizable and even locked up a TV/DVD combo unit to the point that I had to unplug from the wall. What is going on?

Also, during rendering multiple files for my DVD titles, DVDA periodically leaves off the last few minutes off of some of the videos within a title of the a project. The video will cut completely out, loosing the end. This is after triple checking the master AVI files before rendering to MPEG2. What is going on? I have clients I need to deliver product to with deadlines!

I am running a dual xeon machine with a bravo primera duplicator, dru-500, full professional Vegas 4 with DVDA, all of the current updates and using high grade blank media. I need some straight tech answers please.

Has anyone experienced this before?

Comments

Tampa wrote on 11/5/2003, 1:22 PM
Have you played DVD-R discs before on the players you tried connected to the TV? There are a lot of STB players that don't support DVD-R and RW. Could it be as simple as that for all the players you tried?
Annapolis wrote on 11/5/2003, 1:32 PM
Yes, I have succussfully played DVD-R's on this combo unit before, even using the exact same media brand/type. The DVD's also have not registered any alerts of it being a bad DVD during the burning process.
BillyBoy wrote on 11/5/2003, 1:56 PM
Probably the "super high grade blank DVD's" isn't totally compatiable with your set up DVD player. Just because you didn't get any burn error messages or that you played some before doesen't mean the next batch will work perfectly. Quality control or probably more a lack of it at the manufacturing end could be the problem. Remember DVD set top players are really designed to play COMMERICAL grade DVD's that are pressed...not burned. That it sometimes works and somethimes don't is just how it is.

Did you also try a higher bitrate this time by chance? That's a common reason for a DVD to not play in a set top.

If they play off your PC OK that probably confirms there's nothing wrong with what DVD-A did. So by process of elimination it looks like your DVD set top and/or the media.
rebel44 wrote on 11/5/2003, 11:37 PM
As far as I know dvr -r are the most compatible.I have 3 different brand dvd players and they play very good dvd I burned- even the +r. I am using TDK blanks. My burner is TDK440N.Some simple dvd i burned using roxio.
Some what require chapters-I burned using DVDA.What all had in common is
that I use the dvd shrink to fit them all on blank 4.7.If you rip the commercial dvd then you find out that the size will be 7,9,11G.Then I use the dvd shrink.
Make shure that in DVDA you set the blank for 4.7 not 3.9.
Lowering bit rates to 24 could help too.Some dvd players have a hard time to read 29.9 as set default.
After producing dvd in DVDA try to burn by other burning software and see what happen.I read many comments from users on this board that they are using other that DVDA software to burn dvd(NERO,Roxio,....).
I have no problem with burning using DVDA, but I do not do commercial and I experiment with.
Good luck and have a fun
Annapolis wrote on 11/6/2003, 8:56 AM
I am still trouble shooting and will post results once I make positive headway.

I have experienced DVDA drop out bits and pieces of video from some of my projects using different types of media brands. These drop outs occurred on tvs and computers.

Has anyone experienced problems with using multiple dvd-burners on 1 computer (internal and external)?
LeeV wrote on 11/6/2003, 2:39 PM
I've used the same media, the same mpeg2 file and three different authoring programs.

Pinnacle = Plays on everything.
DVDit = Plays on everything.
NEO = Plays on everything.
DVDA = only will play on cheap DVD players like Ampex. Will not play on the more expensive ones like Panasonic, Sony and RCA.

I believe that there is a bug in the DVDA software.