HELP! DVD won't play after successful burn!

BetCha wrote on 6/22/2003, 11:12 PM
Yes, I, too, am having this problem. I'm pulling my hair out! I successfully burned a dvd, tested it on my dvd player at home, (a brand new panasonic dvd-s35 player). It worked beautifully. But... it doesn't play on my son's phillips dvd player (about 3 years old), it doesn't play on the computer on which it was created and burned nor on another computer (about three years old). Both computers Gateway, DVD drive is an HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GMA-4020B. I burned video as MPEG-2 and separate audio AC-3 encoded. Used Memorex DVD-R. Bit rate was 9.8kbps. I'm trying to think of any other information I can give! I need help fast. Distributed a pre-ordered copy and it doesn't work on any of their systems (computer dvd drive, sony playstation 2, or the neighbor's dvd player - she didn't know what brand or model). When I put the dvd back in the dvd drive on the computer, it says there is no disk in the drive.

How can I fix this, and can I fix it with the rendered files already created? I dumped all the video clips in an effort to preserve hard drive because I have another project to start on.

In case you can't tell, I'm a beginner, so please help me in "layman's terms"!

Thanks a bunch!

Comments

kameronj wrote on 7/31/2003, 4:46 PM
Laymen's terms.....the shit's broke!!!


Well, not really broke, but - some older DVD players won't play a burned DVD.

It's kinda like back when CD burners first came out. I knew this guy who had a friend who bought a frog from a guy who dated this chick who's brother had a CD burner and burned a CD for a friend of his at work to give to his grandmother's next door neighbor's mail delivery person....but the mail delivery person couldn't play the CD.

But I could.

So...sweeet - I got a free CD out of the deal cause he's my mail delivery person too!!
BillyBoy wrote on 7/31/2003, 10:32 PM
Likely problem: Bit rate was 9.8kbps. Drop down to defaults!

I haven't visited in awhile so I don't recall of VCDhelp (also DVDhelp) added the max bitrate in their testing of DVD players in their extensive list. Check the models it don't play on.

Over in the Vegas forum, another guy had similar problems, even made housecall to the person the DVD was for. Played fine on his, would halt on hers. I suggested he drop the bitrate to defaults. He did. Worked fine.

It seems a lot of stand alone DVD players have trouble with bitrates over 8,000,000. They either won't play the disc at all, or they show all the symptoms that the DVD player is having trouble, jerky playback, no audio or spotty audio, pixelation and so on.

There is no good reason to use as a high a bitrate as you did. In fact doing so can result in worst quality because as you discovered some DVD player decoders can't accurately process that fast a bitstream. They're suppose to, but that's another story.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 8/3/2003, 8:21 PM
I'm with BillyBoy; 9.8kbps sounds a little high. I thought the spec only went up to 9? Anyway, re-encode your video at the standard 8kbps and it will play on a lot more players. There is no reason to go past 8kbps.

~jr
zivanov wrote on 9/4/2003, 6:22 AM
This is my problem too. After successfully burned a dvd...it doesn´t play in any place, included on the computer on which it was created. I use LG GMA-4020B burn driver. i tested many bite rate values and nothing changed.
PPPPllleeeeaaaasssseee help me !!!!!
gold wrote on 9/4/2003, 7:56 AM
Change DVD-r or (+r) brands and see if that helps; it might help betcha, zivanov I doubt if it will help you as the burner can read almost any brand usually by virtue of the fact it has laser frequencies tailored for the recordables. Also keep the bit rate down to around 4Mb/s average (variable 3-6) for maximum portability.