Reverse scan skips chapters with DVDA3

rainzoneman wrote on 5/1/2005, 9:42 AM
Wondering if anyone has experienced this problem with DVDA3.
I authored my first DVD-R with the software. It's menu-based and contains one 33 minute movie (rendered in Vegas 6) with 23 chapter points (entered manually in DVDA3), and a scene selection menu and some menu background video and audio.

Everything works fine in Preview. Play, Skip, and Forward Scan work fine on my player (Pioneer DV-C505), but doing a Reverse Scan from certain chapters causes the player to jump backward to the middle of an earlier chapter. (No warnings or errors during Prepare stage; only an Info message saying that some of my chapter buttons in the scene selection menu overlap. They are closely spaced, but don't actually appear to overlap.)

I plan on doing some more tests to try and isolate this problem once I get some DVD-RW discs. Also, it's not my burning software. I "burned" to a file using DVDA3, then tried two different ISO burning programs (not DVDA3) which gave the same result.

Thanks,
Sean
Rain Zone Productions

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johnmeyer wrote on 5/1/2005, 10:12 AM
If you find an answer, let me know. This has ALWAYS been a problem with my Pioneer DV-525 player. Whenever I fast reverse through a chapter point, it always lands in the middle of the previous chapter. This has been true since DVDA 1.0. I don't know whether it is something in how DVDA prepares, or whether it is the nature of how DVD-R gets read by Pioneer players. I haven't authored a disc with another authoring program for over a year, so I can't compare with other authoring programs.

Have you tried doing a "fast-reverse" across chapters using a commercial DVD?

rainzoneman wrote on 5/1/2005, 2:42 PM
I just tried this with a commercial DVD, and with a DVD-R that I authored with Roxio Easy DVD Creator. The problem did not occur on either of them. I recently tried DVDLab Pro ( from Mediachance, 30 day free trial) and didn't notice this problem with those discs either (although I don't have them handy to try).

Did you find that these discs work in other players even though they don't work in your Pioneer?

I guess I should open a ticket with Sony support and see what they have to say about it. I'd hate to have to buy DVD Lab Pro after just buying DVD Architect 3. I can't give cast & crew DVD's that don't scan properly, not to mention sell them or give them to professional clients.

Thanks for the reply John, I'll let you know if I find out anything.

Sean