DVDs Created in DVDA 3.0 hang when played

Altair 4 wrote on 1/10/2008, 9:40 AM
I'm just a little home movie maker, mostly doing our family's vacation video, sports and music events and the like. I'm using VMS Platinum 6 which came with DVDA 3.0.

I have noticed that sometimes when a disc has been burned and then played in our Sony DVD player in our home theater, there will be a momentary stumble or "hang". Typically, this doesn't occur until the disc has been playing for a while, say 20 minutes. If I notice the hang, and then back up a couple of seconds and replay it, the hang won't be there. To me, that implies that it's not on media. It's almost as if the player is choking on the data....

I never changed the bitrate from when I installed the software. I looked under "file", "optimize DVD" and found the default video bitrate set at 8 Mbps in the lower left corner of the window. The project I am working on is 2.938 MB or 63% of 4.7 Gig media.

Under "options", "preferences", in "burning", I found the "render options" showing a "minimum video bitrate" set at 2.0 Mbps.

Any suggestions on what may be going on? The media is just Staples DVD+R.

Comments

MPM wrote on 1/10/2008, 10:31 AM
Actually it does sound like media, but to be sure play the DVD on your PC both from disc and from the hard drive. Burners & players both have media compatibility issues, sometimes speed of burning matters, & Staples like many other cheapy discs are made I assume by whomever had the lowest cost.

If you want:
Check videohelp.com, doom9.org, & cdfreaks. Use Nero Speed (free) (videohelp should have it on front page because of recent update) to check how well your burner does with whatever brand of discs. Buy just 1 or a few Verbatim discs and burn the same DVD at 8X and see what happens. Check the player & burner database at videohelp -- you might find some hardware specific media compatibility info others have posted.
Altair 4 wrote on 2/20/2008, 8:31 AM
I tried my problem discs on another player and it played perfectly (and it was a cheap combo dvd and VHS unit). I burned another example onto a Verbatim disc, and it plays perfectly on my home DVD player. Thanks for the help - definitely a compatability issue between the cheapie discs and my Sony player.