Your DVD was successfully burned?, Or was it?

Vic from VU Sound wrote on 7/10/2005, 1:06 PM
I took a 10 minute section of my video project that I was working on in Vegas 6. I rendered it successfully to DVD Arch 3 specs . So I rendered the video to MPEG-2, and the 5.1 audio to AC-3.
I opened DVDA3. chose Single movie. I added the media successfully, previewed it, and everything seemed fine. I hit the Make DVD button. It prepared the folders.
Went to burn the DVD, and everything showed up as successful. It burned the disc,
You could see that something had happened by looking at the DVD-r, but it would not play or even be noticed on any of my my 5 DVD players including the one it was burned on.
The only exception was that it played on my wife's laptop with a program called "Interactual". I knew that it seemed to easy. I have a project due .Help would be greatly appreciated.

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ScottW wrote on 7/10/2005, 1:16 PM
COuple of suggestions -

Go to www.vso-software.com and download the 30 day free trial version of CopyToDVD - use it to burn your prepared DVDA project and see if you still have problems.

Also, make sure you are running the latest version of DVDA3 (which is 3.0B).

It's entirely possible for players more than 3-4 years old to have problems playing DVD-R media (or +R); if the machine you burned the DVD on doesn't have any DVD Player software (like PowerDVD, Interactual, or WinDVD), you're going to have problems playing it - the fact that your wifes laptop could play the DVD really suggests that there's not really a problem with the DVD per say, just with the players you are testing with.

Another test would be on the burning PC to see if file explorer can see the files on the DVD - if it can, then check in the VIDEO_TS folder and see if the IFO files are associated with an application - if they aren't, then the problem is you don't have any player software and the DVD is likely fine.

--Scott
Vic from VU Sound wrote on 7/10/2005, 9:17 PM
Scott I appreciate your reply. Yes I do have WinDVD5 and it does play the video. My problem is that before I purchased the Sony software I was using Pinnacle 9 and it burned the DVDs just fine and they played in every source which is what I need. Unfortunately I have a bride and groom expecting a 5.1 surroud mix package and Pinnacle doesn't have AC3 capabilities. Anyway, I'll try the following:
I'll download that software, and I have an external Sony 510 DVD burner that I'll try a test burn to see if results will be the same.
Thank You,
Vic
ScottW wrote on 7/11/2005, 5:29 AM
Well, if both WinDVD and Interactual play the video, then it seems unlikely that its an issue with burning; more likely you either did something incorrect with the authoring of the DVD or DVDA created a project that's not compatible with the players you tried it on (for some reason).

The best suggestion I have at this point is to get current on the release of DVDA that you have and try authoring a single movie project to keep things simple (new, single movie).

--Scott
Vic from VU Sound wrote on 7/11/2005, 7:28 AM
Hi Scott,
I would like to explain to you For the record when I intially tried to run the DVDA3 versions in my computer they never prompted me for a player. In fact I had to open up my WinDVD on my computer then open the file in my drive to play it.
I almost wish that I was doing something wrong, but I'm not. I downloaded the trial Copy to DVD software like you had suggested, followed the directions meticulously, and burned both my test project , and a second project that I added a simple menu too using the VSO software and it worked in every DVD player without fail. So, there must be a problem with the DVDA3 program in where it is leaving something out of the authoring process which allows players to even detect it. So, now at least I can get a DVD to my clients. I guess I'll edit in Vegas 6, design and save in DVD-A3, and then I'll have to purchase the VSO software to burn. I'll report this to Sony, but if you have any further suggestions please feel free to keep me informed. Thank you for your software suggestion it was and is greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Vic Stott, Wedding Video 1, VU Sound Inc.
ScottW wrote on 7/11/2005, 7:37 AM
I'm glad to hear you got it working. I didn't mean to sound like I was accusing you of screwing up - it's just very hard to sometimes get a feel for what someone has or hasn't done. and it's certainly possible to author a DVD that burns ok but won't play.

It seems very strange to me that WinDVD and Interactual can play things but the set top players can't. Makes me wonder whether DVDA didn't finalize the disk - which might also account for the symptoms, though usually when I've seen DVD's that weren't finalized the only thing I could read them with was Nero (windows explorer wouldn't touch them).

--Scott
rberman wrote on 8/29/2005, 6:22 PM
Well... don't be too surprised. I have the very latest Vegas 6/DVDA 3.0b stuff. Vegas is fine -- put together my short (45 second) video, with music and so forth.

Then went to DVDA, made a simple menu (with some text and a single play button), and rendered this. Burned it with DVDA. The resulting DVD plays fine with Nero's simulated DVD player (haven't tried WinDVD), but my Phillips DVD player can't recognize the disc at all -- after trying for about a full minute, it just says "no disc".

DVDA did spend about 5 minutes on the lead out, which sounds like the "high compatibility" mode (in which at least 1GB of the disc is written to, even though the data is much less). So ... no idea what's wrong with it. Using Toshiba burner and DVD-R media.

Any ideas