"Play All" / "Play Chapter only" Problem...

jmpatrick wrote on 7/14/2005, 8:28 AM
This has been irking me for 4 days now. I'm using DVDA 3.0b and I've got a 90 minute AVI with 19 chapter points. I have the 19 thumbnails spread over 4 sub-menus using the thumbnails to point to specific chapters. I also have a play all button. The play all button works fine...all chapters play perfectly. Every thumbnail that points to a specific chapter works fine EXCEPT the last one (chapter 19). It locks up my set top player every time. I've re-rendered the AVI, I've re-set the chapter point, and I've re-built the menu several times. Nothing seems to help. I know the chapter works because it plays fine when I play all. It also works perfectly when I preview the disc from within DVDA. Why would every thumbnail work except chapter 19? What am I missing??

jp

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jmpatrick wrote on 7/14/2005, 10:32 AM
Anyone else have this problem??
jmpatrick wrote on 7/25/2005, 9:25 AM
Slight update on this problem: I created a new DVD with 45 chapters on 2 hours of video and have the same problem. I tried the disc in a new Sony player and it worked fine. Is it possible that my old Sony player is having trouble reading the outer edge of burned discs? It crashed every time with a blinking 13:00 on the display...

jp
johnmeyer wrote on 7/25/2005, 10:11 AM
What is the source of your MPEG files? I had problems with MPEG files that had been cut using Womble's MPEG Video Wizard.

Is each chapter a separate MPEG file, or is this project one big MPEG file with multiple chapter points? If you use separate MPEG files, make sure that the order of the files in the project list (at the left side of DVDA) is the same as the order that you set using your end points for each chapter. If it isn't, this can mess up (technical term) the navigation, especially when using the remote.

Media can make a difference, although this is not too common. If you are using a DVD-RW (or DVD+RW) to test your project, and this is a disc that has been used before, you my have a scratch that affects how the navigation is read. Try a different RW disc.
ScottW wrote on 7/25/2005, 10:12 AM
Burning right to the outer edge of the disk can certainly cause issues. When disks are made, the ink is spread from the center out, so you probably have the least amount of ink along the outer edge which might result in higher read errors for the player.

I personally try to avoid totally filling a DVD.

--Scott
jmpatrick wrote on 7/25/2005, 5:55 PM
Thanks Scott.

I'm using the "fit to disc" feature of DVDA, so I'm hoping it would keep everything legal.

jp
jmpatrick wrote on 7/25/2005, 5:58 PM
John, I created the AVI in Vegas 6, rendered with the Chapters intact. The AVI is imported into DVDA 3, which creates the MPEG files.

jp