Problem using NERO to burn DVD-A Discs

dvddude wrote on 4/10/2003, 11:29 AM

I like to create a DVD-Video using my authoring program, but not directly to disc---rather, to the hard disc. Then I drag my graphics and support files into a new folder on the disc when there's space, so that I can keep the whole project together. I burn to an actual disc from these hard drive folders.

Using Ulead DVD-Workshop, creating any DVD-video project made exactly ten files in the VIDEO_TS folder. DVD-Archtitect creates a LOT more files, and when I add my usual extra folder and then try to create a DVD in NERO as I've always done, Nero refuses, saying something like "video assets are not a power of 2!!"

I never got an error like that with DVD-WS. If I create the DVD-A disc in Nero using the DVD-ROM (instead of DVD-Video) template, it does seem to work in my test set-top player, but... why is this happening? It leaves me with a queasy feeling that something "non-standard" is happening with the way DVD-A creates video assets as compared to DVD-WS.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Comments

gordo wrote on 4/10/2003, 9:20 PM

sorry, I cant even begin to help you. But I can say how much I hate DVDWS. Isnt this one so much better?

gordo wrote on 4/10/2003, 9:27 PM

I use Nero to burn to disc as well- i create VIDEO and AUDIO_TS folders in DVDA and then use nero. I havent used image creation in nero, and seeing as how this is only my 2nd day using DVDA/Nero i havent run into any problems yet. DVDWS was a one step process, this one could be but isnt. does the dvda create .iso or similar images? Ihave become accustomed to those from DVDWS...

Thanx! G

RBartlett wrote on 4/11/2003, 2:25 AM

DVDdude, do you have the latest Ahead Nero update?
There was a DVD-ROM/DVD-video issue that Ahead sorted out.
Power of 2 would suggest to me that the files you put into the other directory were checked by Nero, but you said it worked with DVD-WS.... so I'm not sure what to say.

DVDA does seem to shell out VOBs before packing them to 1GB at least on my tests. Thought it looked a bit worrying at the time.

dvddude wrote on 4/11/2003, 12:30 PM

Thanks for the heads-up. I have 5.5, but I know that Nero comes out with hundreds of incremental updates, so I'll make sure I have the latest. Thanks!

Yes, Nero never choked on my creating extra files and folder on a DVD-Video disc when using Ulead, so I think the issue must be the particular way that DVD-A makes IFO/BUP/VOB files. However, last night I made another disc and it did not choke, so it seems to happen often, but not always.

Lots of bleeding-edge experimentation to do. But lest anyone who is considering Vegas+DVD be reading this and getting nervous, let me assure you that I went through weeks of experimentation with EVERY product I've tried. This is, perhaps sadly, par for the course, and the SonicFoundry products are certainly no worse than any others, and in fact I think they are working better at this early stage. Vegas+DVD ceratinly has a wonderful, superior interface.

dvddude wrote on 4/11/2003, 12:48 PM

I had decent luck with DVD-WS, but truth be told, that came after lots of initial head-scratching, too. Now I'm using DVD-A and the "huh?" factor is back, but it's no worse than what I went through with several Sonic programs and DVD-WS in the beginning.

What really made me dump DVD-WS was paying $200 for AC3, getting no instructions whatsoever, and then finding out that it doesn't even encode AC3 -- the $200 just allows the program to "tolerate" AC3, not create it. Good-bye.

DVD-A at least seems to work in that respect; I just need to learn its quirks. I really do like the Vagas+DVD inteface!

BillyBoy wrote on 4/11/2003, 6:45 PM

I'm wondering WHY people are trying to burn with Nero and other third party applications when DVD-A will finish the job all by itself. You don't have to burn right away, just do the preburn routine, then the actual burn of the DVD at a later time. I've done a bunch so far that way with no problems at all. Every DVD disc was burned and played perfectly subject to the limitations with creating chapters, menu functions mentioned in other threads. The actual burning process which some DVD Authoring application stumble at, DVD-A does very easily.