Why does DVDA periodically add an M2V file?

clearvu wrote on 8/6/2003, 1:46 PM
When I use DVDA, I usually use the "prepare and burn" feature. If files already exist in its default location, the program will ask if I want to delete the contents and continue. Everything is fine up to this point. Sometimes however, DVDA adds a M2V file in the folder and when DVDA goes to delete the contents, it notices an invalid file is present. WHy does this happen?

Here's another strange one. I have just done a DVDA burn to disk. It had 12 chapters, but for whatever reason I could not go beyond # 5, either on my TV player or computer player. I then checked out the files on the disk and there was that M2V file again. I don't know if the file is causing my playback problem, but DVDA is deffinately adding such files once in a while.

WHY???


As I write this, I'm using NERO to burn a disk using the files created by DVDA. Although the disk burned by DVDA contained an M2V file, the files in the folder on my HD does not. Where did the M2V file come from, I don't know. Since NERO is now burning a disk without any M2V file, I'll see if the playback problem is fixed.


In the meantime, H E L P ?!???

Comments

clearvu wrote on 8/6/2003, 9:32 PM
Did the NERO burn using the DVDA prepared files. Everything worked out fine.

I can't explain this one.

Anybody out there ever had anything similar to this take place and know why DVDA adds an M2V file to its folder or DVD one in a while, especially considering it doesn't even accept M2V files?
jeremyk wrote on 8/7/2003, 10:26 AM
Dunno why it happens, but it happend to me once. I don't know if I did something to cause it or not.
clearvu wrote on 8/7/2003, 12:13 PM
I've seen it sporadically, and thought, "I must have done something". But, you know? I did absolutely nothing different to cause it to happen.

It's kind of frustrating because if I burn directly to a DVD-R, I run the risk of making a coaster if DVDA adds an M2V file to it. That's why I've been burning DVD-RW's and making sure everything is ok before finalizing it.

Brian