Play on tabletop player but not in Power DVD

bbrooks wrote on 6/12/2004, 7:30 AM

I'm not sure what is causing the lock up, but it happens every time I try to play the DVD on my computer. I'm running Power DVD which came with my Sony burner. I've checked out playing the DVD in table top players and it works just fine.

The main menu comes up fine. I can even navigate to the scene selection scree. When I try to actually play though, that is when the lock up happens.

What is causing this and what can I do to remedy the situation.

Almost forgot, this happens when I use the DVD Windows Media Player as well. It also happens when I play a DVD burned with Sonic My DVD (also came with the Sony Burner.

I'm thinking it's something with the computer itself (some type of buffer) but I don't have a clue how to remedy this.

Many thanks again for all the help and knowledge.

BB

Comments

kameronj wrote on 6/13/2004, 8:07 AM

Does this happen to just burned DVDs or to all DVDs?

Cunhambebe wrote on 6/13/2004, 2:53 PM

Yeah, that'd be import to answer kameronj's question. Anyway, take a look at this:

http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=290275&Page=0

:)

bbrooks wrote on 6/14/2004, 5:29 AM

Thanks for the response to both of you. Here's what I came up with. I burned to a re-writeable DVD for test purposes (remember I am new to this so no snickering). The odd thing was that it would play in both of my tabletop players (something from my understanding would be unusuall). I think that it is odd that it wouldn't play in the computer drive. Anyway I burned to a DVD-R and it worked just fine in all of my players.

Another thing to note (and once again...new...no snickering), I tried to make a copy of my re-writeable DVD to a DVD-R and Nero wouldn't let me. I then tried just burning a DVD-R by placing the files from the Audio & Video folders DVDAC created from my Prep Folder. Is that the best way to do it? Or should I just let DVDAC do the DVD-R I like the convenience of test on a re-writeable 1st and then burn to a permanent media.

Any preference for you guys re: DVD+R or DVD-R for playing movies and why?

kameronj wrote on 6/14/2004, 10:29 PM

I always burn my finished product to a rewritable prior to going final. Helps catch an errors I may have missed...or allows me to change stuff without messign up a bunch of discs. So, that is not uncommon at atll.

Can't tell you why you couldn't do a copy - but, as long as you have the prepared data, just use that to burn a new disc. Either using Nero - or just burn using DVDA and point it to where you have the files.

I tend to have multiple projects going at the same time and just point to where DVDA can pull the data from when It's time to burn.

As for +r vs -r....I only have a +r drive....so I don't even bother with -r. But my next drive will be dual - and I will still probably stick with +r.

Lastly....it is not as odd as you think that your stand alone DVD player can play your DVD rewritables. Some do - some don't. A lot of the newer ones out now will play RWs. With the price of DVD players as low as they are now....depending on where you live you can buy a DVD player for less than a carton of smokes (if you smoke, that is). So sooner or later - the incompatibility will be a thing of the past.

Sort of like Beta vs VHS. 8-track vs cassette. My Ex vs my hot new hottie!!

(Oh...skip that last one....a weeee bit personal info shared there!!)

Ciao!

bbrooks wrote on 6/15/2004, 6:16 AM

Thank you for the informative reply and the humor.

I hope your new hottie is compatible with the format of your choice...uh...uh...I mean your new drive, yeah that's what I meant, your new drive.

BB