DVDA 4.0 vs. DVDA 4.5

drmathprog wrote on 1/9/2008, 4:11 PM
I've just discovered a troubling thing. If I assemble and prepare a project with DVDA 4.5 and burn it, the resulting DVD won't play. If I take the same rendered project into DVDA 4.0a and simply burn it from the previously prepared DVDA 4.5a project, the resulting DVD plays fine everywhere. Can this be just a rouge default setting or something?

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farss wrote on 1/9/2008, 4:18 PM
Not had any problems with 4.5a and it did fix a really bad problem with 16:9 PAL menus. Then again I usually prepare out of DVDA and burn with Nero. Come to think of it I don't think I've ever burnt directly out of 4.5a, maybe once and the DVD did seem a little dodgy but that was on a dodgy burner as well. Taking the same already prepared image into my other machine and burning it with Nero and the result was OK. I guess a few 100 copies were struck from that master and no complaints so far.

Bob.
DJPadre wrote on 1/9/2008, 9:21 PM
Never had an issue with 4, and to be honest, i dont see any benefit of 4.5 as ive never had issues with any aspect ratio.

Why try fix somethgn thats not broken?

One issue i DO have, irrespective of what vrsion ( i also use DVDA3 for quick and dirty jobs) is that sometimes it will not eject the disc. requiring a reboot to reset the IDE channel.
I do not know why it does this, but its nuked several discs and it hapens only rarely.
Im using a pioneer a09

I also have an a05 and an a08 on my other system.

On my hitachi combo drive (which is in the toshiba laptop), ive never had an issue
I think its an IDE issue
farss wrote on 1/9/2008, 9:42 PM
Well I'd suggest you check your DVDs carefully.
Pretty well all versions prior to 4.5 have a subtle problem with 16:9 PAL menus, haven't tried NTSC for obvious reasons.

If you use the Text Highlight simple way to highlight selected menu items it does seem to work and looks fine on a 16:9 TV. Play it out to a 4:3 TV where the DVD player has been told the TV is 4:3 i.e. the DVD player letterboxes the output and you find the text highlight is 4:3 and the text is 16:9 and looks a right royal mess.Tthere's now 1,000s of DVDs in the shops with this error in them.

Bob.
DJPadre wrote on 1/9/2008, 11:16 PM
hmm..
strange.. the only highlight i ever use on the front menu is underline, or text mask overlay. Msot of my clients arent into the animatd buttons or button highlgihts etc
I have to admit, I havent seen this on 4:3 or 16:9 displays... this is rightly bizarre no doubt...
farss wrote on 1/10/2008, 1:45 AM
No need for animated buttons, just the text mask overlay.
What was such a shock was I'd been carefully checking my DVDs on a 16:9 TV and they were fine. And then one client who hasn't got a 16:9 TV complains about our 16:9 DVDs. This happened in the middle of the unreferenced audio stream problem and yes, we got caught on that one too. The principal of the dance academy just happened to have one of the VHS/DVD combo units that bought the problem on. A few 100 DVDs had to be replaced.

Bob.