Plays OK in computer, will not play in player ??

jboy wrote on 3/27/2003, 11:53 AM
Does anybody know for sure, that if you have a DVD you've burned that'll play on your computer, but not a stand-alone player, it means that the DVD is OK but there's some incompatability problem with the player and the media ? Or is it possible to burn a flawed DVD that'll appear to be good on your computer, but still not play in a player? Details: Pioneer ao5 burner-(Cendyne), Princo 1X media, Apex 1500 player. Funny part is, I've burned mpeg.2 files generated w/vv 4.0's template on this very media, and they play fine on my player. Backed up commercial DVD's, however, will not play. I get a "No Disk", or "Disk Error" messages.Haven't had a chance to check the failed disks on any other player yet..

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PDB wrote on 3/27/2003, 1:16 PM
Now that sounds interesting...From my experience, the media you use to burn dvds very much determines whether they will play in a player or not...(Memorex don't work for me...) First thing I would try is different media: a RW format to avoid loads of coasters, and will allow you to experiment further...
a good place to explore is dvdrhelp.com FWIW. They list hundreds of players and formats/media which work in the real world out there.
swattum wrote on 3/27/2003, 1:54 PM
There are compatability issues with some players. For example, some players will refuse the see the media unless the lead-in specifies DVD media, not DVD+R, or DVD+RW, but just DVD.

There's at least one utility I've seen that addresses this with some burners and allows you to change the lead-in that's written so that even if it's really a DVD+R media, it gets a lead-in written as if it was a DVD media.

There are other types of compatability issues.

I'd suggest trying google for a few of the web sites that promote the various formats (especially the format you are using) - as many of these sites have a list of players that are compatable (or not), and if there are any work-arounds. www.dvdplusrw.org is one such site for +R and +RW information.

--Scott
jboy wrote on 3/27/2003, 2:01 PM
Got the name of the utility that addresses the lead-in issue ? I am burning DVD-RW's, so no coasters for me. I'll check out vcdhelp for possible compatability issues, but my player has a reputation for playing everything, so doubt this is the problem, (+ it plays other types of files on the same media)..
swattum wrote on 3/27/2003, 3:09 PM
DVDBitsetter - but it's only for +R/+RW, since you are using -R/-RW this may not help you.
jboy wrote on 3/28/2003, 10:51 PM
Looks like a player incompatability problem. User reviews of the player at vcdhelp.com cite many examples of dvd-rw's refusing to play, though a few said they did. Oh well, off to look for a dvd-rw compatable player. Can anyone recommend an inexpensive one that'll play dvd-rw's ?
rstein wrote on 3/29/2003, 11:28 AM
I saw this on my first day with a DVD burner - if you burn a DVD and the burning software leaves the disk "open," you get exactly the symptom you describe - it will work fine with software DVD player on the PC that burned it, equivocal results on other DVD-ROM-equipped PCs (older one didn't recognize disk, newer one did), and no dice with set top player ("disk error" message).

At that point, I was using RecordNow! which defaulted DVD burns to "leave disk open." Simply changing that parameter solved the problem. I believe there may have been a similar issue with DVDA v1.0, but 1.0a seems to be fine.

Bob.