DVDA Burn BUG

rstein wrote on 2/15/2003, 8:58 PM
Using DVDA with Sony DRX-500UL (1.0g firmware).

On preview, DVDA does everything the way I want the DVD to turn out. I prepare and burn.

On burned DVD (tried with DVD+R and a DVD-R, and DVD-RW), when played with PowerDVD or MS DVD player (native player to Win2K) the menus don't work. Selecting a menu button linked to the movie does not play. Navigation buttons and submenus move as expected, but picking any button that should actually play, doesn't.

On a set-top player, the burned DVD appears to play OK.

Now, here's where it gets really weird: if I point the software players (either WinDVD or native MS DVD) to the folder where DVDA created the VIDEO_TS contents, and select the main .IFO file, these software players play the files EXACTLY right.

This begs the question, what's DVD-A doing in the burn that is making software players unhappy?

Any theories welcome. My next step is to burn the folder using a different burning software and see if that makes a difference. But this is really strange and inexplicable, at least to me.

Thanks,
Bob.

Comments

rstein wrote on 2/15/2003, 9:06 PM
The date/times of files burned by DVDA onto the DVD are all wrong. They all show as 2/15/03 at 2:23am (when I just finished creating the project at 6:00pm on the hard drive). Clearly, the date/time stamp is wrong. I wonder if this is related to the buggy behavior of the burned disks with software players?

Bob.
rstein wrote on 2/15/2003, 9:55 PM
I burned the folder using Veritas' RecordNow DX onto the exact same DVD-RW that was behaving as described above.

Two things were apparent:
1) Software players now worked correctly. That is, playing off the DVD, both PowerDVD and MS DVD player work in the same manner as they do when playing the files from hard disk.
2) Date/time stamps on the burned DVD are correctly matching the source files.

Looks like there's trouble in that burning engine, SF!

Bob.
rstein wrote on 2/17/2003, 10:29 AM
Is anybody from Sonic Foundry reading these? What does one have to do to get this issue addressed?

Thanks,
Bob.
MadMikey wrote on 2/17/2003, 3:18 PM
Just another voice... I too thought I was burning ooasters at first because I was playing them on my PC using PowerDVD, same behavior you got. After 3 attempts I tried playing them with Windows Media Player, they played perfectly. They also played fine on my set-top box.

MadMikey
CyberPuppy wrote on 2/17/2003, 10:10 PM
Sonic Foundry staff read all these forum posts. Your comments do not fall on deaf ears. I'm sure their support staff is completely swamped with requests right now, but you should still request assistance through their email form.
Jimco wrote on 2/17/2003, 10:26 PM
That was my experience as well. Most people have just told me to burn the DVD using Nero, but I really prefer to do it all within one program. After all, all authoring programs I've used provide the functionality of burning. I really don't understand the logic of saying that DVD authoring software shouldn't necessarily be good at burning the DVD.

Jim