Plays from hardrive but not on DVD

virken wrote on 7/31/2006, 3:32 PM

Hi, my movie looks good and plays just fine in Vegas and in DVDA, but when I burn to Memorex DVD+R with my new Samsung DVD-RW drive it all goes to @#$%.

On my PC, the titles have poor resolution, the playback stutters and stops, and the disk isn't recognized at all by some DVD players. I'm using the NTSC 720x480 template and DVDA v3.0.

Thanks for any assistance - much appreciated.

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plasmavideo wrote on 8/1/2006, 9:13 AM

Are you using the template in Vegas that is specifically for DVDA? It is a seperate one from the standard NTSC template.

Render your video first using this template and then render the audio as a seperate, but named the same with different extension, from the Vegas timeline into the same folder.

DVDA will link the 2.

Preferably render as AC3, but WAV is an option if you prefer LPCM.

If that soesn't work, post again with some more info about how you are encoding etc. BTW, Memorex is not the most reliable media to use judging by other posts on this topic.

If you have a different burning engine like Nero, you might want to try burning the project you created - the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders as the source (as a video DVD, not a data DVD), and see if that helps.

It may be that your new Samsung burner is too new to be recognized properly by DVDA. I think there is a setting in DVDA that allows you to bypass the burner database and read the drive capabilities differently. I may be wrong about that - I'm not at the location where I have DVDA installed.

Anyway, those are some starting points. Hope you find a resolution.

Tom

ScottW wrote on 8/1/2006, 9:44 AM

+R doesn't have quite the same compatability that -R media does, unless you burn +R with a DVD-ROM booktype - to do this you'll need 2 things, a burner that supports changing the booktype and then burning software such as Nero that lets you change the booktype if the burner supports it. Otherwise, I'd stick with -R since you get about 90% compatability with most players (that is, 90% of the players will attempt to play; other issues may still be present).

Viewing a DVD on the PC isn't going to necessarily look as goodl as viewing on the intended display device (TV). Computer monitors are progressive and TV's are interlaced, this difference can cause titles to not look so great on the PC when they look fine on TV.

The stuttering and stopping issue could be due to a number of different things. First, it could be your media, though memorex is generally considered to be pro grade media (the problem is since Memorex sources from different places, you never know what you've really got unless you use a utility to look at the disk manufacturer information).

Another possibility is you encoded at too high a bit rate in Vegas - high bit rates can cause more read errors. Another possible is your burner just didn't do a good job burning, or possibly you burned at a low speed like 2x (usually higher burn speeds are better). If you have a copy of Nero, they have a tool that lets you check the error rates on your DVD. While all burned media has some errors, excessive errors can cause the stuttering/stopping issues that you are seeing.

--Scott

DYFLWD wrote on 9/18/2006, 7:26 AM

I have the same problem. I burn my DVD-R and it plays on my DVD player but not on my computer DVD. (The very DVD burner that burned it!)
Windows media center syas the disc is empty, even windows exployer says its a blank DVD? If I use a different DVD player software on my computer like HP's "DVD PLAY", it works fine.

I see -R is 90% compatability but I want 99.99% so do I understand this correctly
1. By a DVD burner that supports changing the book type
2. By Nero and burn to DVD-ROM booktype

Thanks all

ScottW wrote on 9/18/2006, 7:31 AM

Almost...

1. By a DVD burner that supports changing the book type
3. Use DVD+R Media

Disclaimer: this will not necessarily fix the problem you are currently encountering with your computer. Nor will this resolve other issues that some DVD players have, such as errors, bitrate spikes, etc.

--Scott

DYFLWD wrote on 9/18/2006, 7:36 AM

That was quick! Thanks Scott

WillBellJr wrote on 9/19/2006, 10:20 AM

I'm having the same problem but in my case the computer nor the dvd player plays the disc???

I'm playing with the trial and I loaded up some quick WMV files (since I have a bunch of them) to see how DVDA4 acted using them (in v3 it was very sluggish and annoyingly slow)

I'm pleased to say that the response is very good this time around BUT every disc I burned didn't play and also shows as blank on the computer after buring (almost as if the disc isn't properly closed)

Now I was using DVD-RW discs but I've never had problems with them before?...

I created a new project, dropped in the WMVs and selected the 352x240 / ac3 stereo format (I burn discs formatted like this all the time using DVD Lab Pro)

When the first disc didn't work, I switched to WAV format audio and tried again - still no joy?

Typically I do the conversion to MPEG / AC3 manually but this time I wanted to just "let DVDA do it all"...

Since I rarely capture directly to MPEG (at least not from my laptop), I wanted to see how the quality would be just letting DVDA do everything from authoring to encoding.

I'll try a "normal" DV project tonite but so far, I can't get anything I burn to play!

-Will