DVDs Won't Play In any DVD Player

xtime wrote on 7/25/2004, 6:02 PM
I am using DVD Architect 2.0a authoring a DVD rendered for it using Vegas 5 with the lastest updates. My burner is an I/O Magic 8X Dual format Model# IDVDRW8D. After I create the project and go through the burn process, the DVD's will not play in either of my DVD Players. One a year old Pioneer, the other a 3 year old Panasonic.

However, If I use Easy CD Creator 6 with DVD and burn the same video it plays fine. However, Easy CD 6 does not allow any of the advanced features.

FYI - When I run the optimizer I get no error notifications at all, except that the informational message that the audio will be recompressed.

Any ideas what is going on here?

Dave

Comments

ScottW wrote on 7/26/2004, 5:56 AM
What advanced features are you trying to uset? If you are attempting to burn a hybrid DVD using DVDA you're going to be just as disappointed as you are with Easy CD.

At a guess, DVDA doesn't properly support your burner. You probably have 3 options - get a burner that DVDA does claim to support, continue to use Easy CD to burn, or, if the feature set of Easy CD is insufficient, purchase something like Nero.

--Scott
xtime wrote on 7/26/2004, 6:07 AM
I am trying to create a DVD with menus and chapter selections, animated buttons etc. Please forgive my ignorance, but what is DVDA? If I want to use the full features of DVD Architect, what burner should I have?

Thanks for the help.

Dave
xtime wrote on 7/26/2004, 6:42 AM
Where is the supported or tested drive list? I just need a drive that works.

Dave
ScottW wrote on 7/26/2004, 6:44 AM
DVDA = DVD Architect. It's just that most folks don't like spelling it out all the way; hence the short form.

Thanks for the clarification about the advanced features. I'm not familiar with Easy CD, but you may be able to prepare the project with DVDA and then pull the audio_ts/video_ts folders into Easy CD and have it burn the DVD for you. This can be easily done with Nero.

It used to be that Sony listed the drives that DVDA actually supported; now it appears that they only say "DVD Architect software has been tested with a wide range of drives and should work with most DVD recordable drives."

As for burners, I have a Pioneer A06 that works fine. Others in this forum may be able to say what burner they have which works. The only reliable way I've seen to make sure you can burn is to purchase something like Nero (and they do list what burners they support).

--Scott
bStro wrote on 7/26/2004, 6:47 AM
DVD Architect and your burner are probably just being picky about what kind of media they want to use. If you used a DVD-R, try a DVD+R. If you used a DVD+R, try a DVD-R.

Rob
xtime wrote on 7/26/2004, 7:26 AM
Scott,

One more question. Where does DVDA put the "t" files?

I wonder if it woulod also work with the Pioneer A07?

I really appreciate the help.

Dave
ScottW wrote on 7/26/2004, 7:44 AM
"t" files? Sorry, not sure what a "t" file is.

I've got an A07 burner but I don't have DVDA installed on that machine, so I can't say whether it will work. And, as I mentioned, it doesn't seem like Sony publishes a list of tested burners anymore (which I think is very tacky).

The best suggestion I have is to go to www.nero.com and check out the list of supported burners for Nero. If the A07 is on the list (and it probably is), then purchase a copy of Nero to do your burning. With Nero you'll also be able to create hybrid DVD's if that's something you want to do (put content on that is targeted for computers, or whatever; jacket images, things like that).

Update: If you look at the IOCTL thread, they have a 107 burner that doesn't seem to work with DVDA.....

--Scott