We take a MPG file, that plays fine with any player we use. And using creator 9 make a DVD, and burn it to disk.

When we take it out of the computer and then put it back in, the auto start fires up and the computer sees the disk as a true DVD, and asks what do we want to play it with.

no matter what we use to play it with it works fine. "On the computer"

But when we try to play it on any standard DVD player, hooked up to a TV, (have tried three different ones ) all of them will not play.

It starts up with the usual "Loading" screen,, then a message pops up saying that there is no audio. And then stops there. wont even go to a menu screen or anything.

Any suggestions?

Joe
nss@mwt.net

Your player may not like the brand of disc. Some players choke on home made dvd's but there are some things that may help you. First, check with the manufacturer of your player and use the brand of disc they recommend. Then, try burning at a slower speed and, instead of burning direct to disc, try burning to an image file first, then use Disc Copier to burn the ISO to disc (at a slower speed).
I had a player that only seemed to work on about half my dvd's no matter what I did. Sometimes using a store bought dvd for a few minutes then putting in the Roxio made dvd did the trick. In the end, I got another player and have never had a problem.

Joe, edit out your email adress from your first post.

In EMC 9 Tools find DVDInfo Pro place the disc in the PC drive and open the program. Make sure the drive with the disc in it is showing in the bottom of the window. Now up top click the info button, the information should look like below. The clip board icon top right, if you click it, it will copy the info to the pc clipboard and allows you to paste the info in a post here.
What we are looking for is the Disc Regions and the Format Type. That tells us it's a DVD Video.

Media Information
Disc Regions are 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
Media code/Manufacturer ID TYG02
Format Type UDF 1.02
Volume Name NEW
Application id ImgBurn
Implementation id cdanteek Productions
Recording Date/Time (mm/dd/yyyy) 11/10/2007 22:14:51
Format Capacity 4.36GB(4.68GB)
Book Type DVD-R
Media Type DVD-R
Manufacturer Rated Speed 8.0x 11080KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 8.0x 11080KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 4.0x 5540KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 2.4x 3324KBps
Write Strategy Speed 4.0x 5540KBps
2x Speed OPC beta 08
2x Speed OPC power 0E
2x Write Strategy field 1 11 87 78 80
2x Write Strategy field 2 88 80 00 00 00 00
4x Speed OPC beta 06
4x Speed OPC power 13
4x Write Strategy field 1 0D 10 0E 07
4x Write Strategy field 2 97 07 0D 0B
4x Write Strategy field 3 80 00 00 00
4x Speed OPC beta multi-pulse 06
4x Speed OPC power multi-pulse 18
4x Write Strategy field 4 17 85 78 75
4x Write Strategy field 5 D6 89 A8 92 01 20
4x Write Strategy field 6 10 00 D0 00 00
Data area starting sector 30000h
Data area end sector 22E0EFh
Linear Density 0.267um/bit
Track Density 0.74um/track
Number of Layers 1

Complete Media Code
00000000 00 6C 00 00 01 40 C1 FD 9E D8 52 00 02 87 0D 10 .l...@....R.....
00000010 66 78 80 00 03 54 59 47 30 32 00 00 04 00 00 00 fx...TYG02......
00000020 00 00 00 00 05 AA A2 22 22 20 02 00 06 08 0E 11 ......."" ......

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