This is my first truly "weird" DVD burning problem. As I've said in another thread I have got a couple bad burns, but solely due to bad media. That was confirmed by a message saying as much on screen. during the burning process. In short it said such and such track couldn't be wrote to.
THIS IS DIFFERENT and a little strange. Long post, but interesting.
Project was 3 videos of various sizes rendered to MPEG-2 in Vegas then allowing DVD-A to recompress the audio. According to Optmize the project size was reported as 4.659.8 GB, close to capacity yes, yet DVD-A only shows 97% useage with setting the reported media capacity to 4.7. Lets not quibble over that math variance.
I've made DVD's close to the size limit before, so I said what the heck, go for it. DVD-A proceeded to do its thing and about 24 minutes later the disc pops out. Everything seems fine. No error messages. The first thing odd was there wasn't any confirmation box saying that the burn completed successfully. That's something you always see after a successful burn. Not this time.
I put the burned disc into my trusty Pioneer 333 and instead of seeing MENU which I normally do after a few seconds I just see LOADING and hear the player trying to get started. After a solid minute, no dice.
Next I put the same disc in my PC, bring up Media Player and in a few seconds I see the menu, then a couple seconds later I get the dreaded "Windows Media Player has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience" message.
Undaunted, I bring up Power DVD, the disc loads immediately and the disc plays fine all the way through. No skips, no hangs, nothing wrong.
I try a few other players. One had some minor troubles. The others play the disc fine.
I'm writing this more for illustrative purposes rather than asking what the heck do I do now. On the surface it would seem the disc was either "bad" meaning the disc itself. Perhaps something happened during the burning. Remember as I said in the beginning this time DVD-A didn't offer the usual 'it burned OK' message. But if either was true then how come the majority of PC DVD players I tired it on play the disc properly? Then how is it that Microsoft's Media Player could get as far as loading the menu page, then crash and burn immediately after?
What did I do? I went back into the project, optimize, changed the default 8 MPBS down to where it showed the project file size to be 4644.8 from the original 4659.8, by dropping the shown bitrate to 6380. Again the math seems squirlly, but lets again skip that.
This time instead of using another inkjet printable DVD +R disc like I wanted to, I tired a DVD +RW. In burned fine. DVD-A reported that it burned fine as it should. And to no surpirse it plays fine now in my DVD set top, and in every PC DVD player I tried it in.
THIS IS DIFFERENT and a little strange. Long post, but interesting.
Project was 3 videos of various sizes rendered to MPEG-2 in Vegas then allowing DVD-A to recompress the audio. According to Optmize the project size was reported as 4.659.8 GB, close to capacity yes, yet DVD-A only shows 97% useage with setting the reported media capacity to 4.7. Lets not quibble over that math variance.
I've made DVD's close to the size limit before, so I said what the heck, go for it. DVD-A proceeded to do its thing and about 24 minutes later the disc pops out. Everything seems fine. No error messages. The first thing odd was there wasn't any confirmation box saying that the burn completed successfully. That's something you always see after a successful burn. Not this time.
I put the burned disc into my trusty Pioneer 333 and instead of seeing MENU which I normally do after a few seconds I just see LOADING and hear the player trying to get started. After a solid minute, no dice.
Next I put the same disc in my PC, bring up Media Player and in a few seconds I see the menu, then a couple seconds later I get the dreaded "Windows Media Player has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience" message.
Undaunted, I bring up Power DVD, the disc loads immediately and the disc plays fine all the way through. No skips, no hangs, nothing wrong.
I try a few other players. One had some minor troubles. The others play the disc fine.
I'm writing this more for illustrative purposes rather than asking what the heck do I do now. On the surface it would seem the disc was either "bad" meaning the disc itself. Perhaps something happened during the burning. Remember as I said in the beginning this time DVD-A didn't offer the usual 'it burned OK' message. But if either was true then how come the majority of PC DVD players I tired it on play the disc properly? Then how is it that Microsoft's Media Player could get as far as loading the menu page, then crash and burn immediately after?
What did I do? I went back into the project, optimize, changed the default 8 MPBS down to where it showed the project file size to be 4644.8 from the original 4659.8, by dropping the shown bitrate to 6380. Again the math seems squirlly, but lets again skip that.
This time instead of using another inkjet printable DVD +R disc like I wanted to, I tired a DVD +RW. In burned fine. DVD-A reported that it burned fine as it should. And to no surpirse it plays fine now in my DVD set top, and in every PC DVD player I tried it in.