DVDA files burned on NERO 5.5 trouble....

drguitar001 wrote on 11/14/2004, 11:17 AM
When I try to burn DVDA rendered files with Nero 5.5, I get this warning:

Reallocation of VIdeo files failed.
Do you want to try to burn your DVD without reallocation?

Of course, I tried but burned coffee coasters. Anyone have a solution?
By the way, the DVD burns fine in DVDA, but I would like to make multiple copies and Nero is faster.

Mike

Comments

IanG wrote on 11/14/2004, 3:05 PM
How exactly are you trying to use Nero? If it's recognising that it's trying to burn video files I suspect you're making life more complicated than you need to - you just need to put the audio_ts and video_ts folders on a data disk.

Ian G.
drguitar001 wrote on 11/14/2004, 4:10 PM
I just put the video files in the video files folder.

Mike
IanG wrote on 11/15/2004, 12:40 AM
Sorry, I don't understand what you mean - can you be a bit more specific, please?

Ian G.
drguitar001 wrote on 11/15/2004, 6:12 AM
As you know, there two folders that appear when you go to burn a DVD video in Nero. One is AUDIO_TS and the other is VIDEO_TS. I take the VIDEO_TS files from the DVDA rendered file and place then in the VIDEO_TS Nero folder.

Am I doing something wrong?

Mike
IanG wrote on 11/15/2004, 10:06 AM
That's what you're supposed to do! You could try just burning a data disk and including the video_ts and audio_ts folders.

I have to admit I haven't used Nero for a while now after it was causing registry problems on my PC. I now use CDBurnerXP Pro which works well and is free!

Ian G.
WeaverMD wrote on 12/2/2004, 1:20 PM
I don't have a solution, but I can firmly confirm this issue with Nero 5.5 and DVDA 1 folder data. I too am seeking a solution.

The "coasters" I found worked on an old APEX DVD player and on the PC, but not on several other makes of DVD players.

It is not a matter of simply bypassing the "Video DVD" configuration and trying any number of ISO/UDF , ISO, UDF data disk formats in Nero with appropriate DVD video folders either. I've tried multiple settings like "Force X-box..." and so on - still with no success.

Nero is desired for efficiency burning multiple disks, verifying disk burn, and optionally adding additional data folders (e.g. photos) to some disks.

I believe there is some issue with the order the video files are burned to the disk as well as data block size and even/odd count and even various "flags" in the DVD. It would be nice if DVD A produced a fileset Nero or other burner could successfully work with. Sony, can you answer this? Anyone else?

IanG wrote on 12/2/2004, 1:49 PM
>It would be nice if DVD A produced a fileset Nero or other burner could successfully work with.

It does - I've just done it! I've no idea what the problem is with Nero, but I've just created a data disk from the audio_ts and video_ts folders and it plays with no problems.

Ian G.
Chienworks wrote on 12/2/2004, 1:57 PM
There is a problem with DVDA-1 which made the .VOB files slightly larger than the standard size. These files could be played back on many cheaper players, but players and software that were picky about standards complained about them. I usually burned DVDA-1 prepared DVDs with Nero, which would complain about file reallocation every time, but the discs worked in most players.

The only real problem i had was that i couldn't copy the files from a burned DVD back to the hard drive, nor could i copy one of these burned DVDs with Nero. In both cases there would be fatal read errors that would abort the process. That meant i had to keep the prepared directory on my hard drive until i knew i didn't need any more copies of the DVD.

Fortunately DVDA-2 has fixed this problem and creates standard sized .VOB files.
Nickelman wrote on 12/2/2004, 3:46 PM
Reallocation of VIdeo files failed.
Do you want to try to burn your DVD without reallocation?

I had this same error with Nero v6.6.0.1 this afternoon. Also, the DVD that DVDAS-2 produced played in my standalone player but not on my DVD-ROM or even the DVD-RW drive that produced it. I used Nero Recode to recode the files and then Nero burned them flawlessly. The Nero made disk plays on all my players.

Nickelman
WeaverMD wrote on 12/2/2004, 5:15 PM
On 12/2/2004 1:57:03 PM Chienworks wrote:

There is a problem with DVDA-1 which made the .VOB files slightly larger than the standard size....worked in most players...nor could i copy one of these burned DVDs with Nero...had to keep the prepared directory on my hard drive... (and use DVDA-1 to make another copy - weaver)...Fortunately DVDA-2 has fixed this problem and creates standard sized .VOB files.
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Ditto 100%. I've been pretty meticulous at narrowing the problem, and couldn't help but conclude something was amiss with the DVDA-1 fileset. Granted, the disks work on my PC and cheapo-DVD players, but embarrassing/unacceptable when they don't when for someone else's DVD player when I know my Nero 5.5 and Pioneer 6 DVD burner and DVD-R blanks work with other authoring tools I have. I'm doing 24P and want to keep it efficient 24P with flags rather than adding extra (2:3 pulldown) frames and using a different authoring tool than the nice workflow with Vegas/DVDA.

I don't have DVDA-2 / V5 and not eager to race out and get it over a "problem" with DVDA I never bargained for when I bought it in the first place.

Any suggestions? I'm running DVDA 1.0d.