poor playback experience on computer

ninianne98 wrote on 12/17/2004, 12:27 PM
I recently bought a copy of the Vegas+DVD Studio software. I've primarily been working with the Architect Studio part of the package. I have been recording TV programs with a Hauppauge 250 - which natively records in MPEG-2 format. I am clipping the commercials with VideoReDo and playback of the files is great. I have been adding these to DVD projects and done DVD previews, everything works fine, I render the DVD to hard disk prior to burning, and run the IFO files in WinDVD4 and everything behaves.

Here's the issue:
I then burn the project to DVD - I can then play the DVD on stand alone DVD players and all is well, however any attempt to playback on a computer yields a fast twirl through the chapter numbers and a return to the main menu (on my Pioneer 106, Pioneer 104, LiteOn CD-RW/DVD-ROM, and a Sony unit whose model I'm unsure of). I have created projects of similar format in CD creator 7 with the EXACT same MPEG files & same spindle of DVD media, and those play as expected on computer as well as stand alone units... My drive is not *truly* supported with CD Creator 7 so I have had to generate an ISO image that I burn with Nero - but that's how I did a separate project that played as expected on both computer and stand alone DVD players & burning with the Pioneer 108.


Is something up with my burner and Architect? Is there something in the Architect DVD formatting of the disk that is mixed up with my DVD-R (Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-108) drive? I've tried taking the movie files into nero but it objects that the video files are not DVD spec... Does Architect require certain types of media to be used for accurate playback?

The media I've tried include: mwave.com "house brand" 8X DVD+R, Memorex 4x DVD-R and TDK 2x DVD-R media.

Comments

ScottW wrote on 12/17/2004, 2:04 PM
The issue with Nero is known - DVDAS produces files that are 1 or 2 bytes (i forget which) too large; tell Nero to ignore it and it will be ok.

As for zipping thru the chapters - many authoring programs don't do things quite the same. Whatever you are using to play probably doesn't understand how DVDAS is doing things. Try using something like WM9 player to view the DVD.

--Scott
ninianne98 wrote on 12/17/2004, 3:13 PM
I will give this a try later this evening - however I'm still mystified as to why, if I play the rendered project from the hard disk (the files that ultimately get burned to disc) works fine, I only find out that I have a problem after it is on a disc...
ScottW wrote on 12/17/2004, 5:30 PM
Sorry, I missed that aspect of things. Not sure why that would be the case, but the only thing left is some sort of burn issue.
ninianne98 wrote on 12/23/2004, 8:37 AM
I actually didn't get a chance to get media player set up for DVDs (the 2000 native dvdplayer.exe app has issues too - but those are issues that exist on all DVDs). What I did manage to do was take one of the problem projects that was still sitting on the hard disk to burn to DVD using Easy Media 7 (which turned out to work with my drive - turns out the computer was probably overtaxed the times I burned the first few discs that failed to burn) and if I run disc copier from a folder and burn to disc, those DVDs playback as desired. Only thing I can think of is that since I have a fairly new Pioneer dual layer burner, Architect is not writing something quite right since it is a single layer burner app.