[drufus2002]

I just burned a new slideshow dvd. It works fine in my computer but will not work in my dvd player. I have created other DVD's that do play in my DVD so I do not think its my player. Any thoughts?

[grandpabruce]

drufus2002, on Aug 10 2006, 12:53 PM, said:

I just burned a new slideshow dvd. It works fine in my computer but will not work in my dvd player. I have created other DVD's that do play in my DVD so I do not think its my player. Any thoughts?

Change media type or brand. Your set top DVD player doesn't like what you fed it.

[drufus2002]

drufus2002, on Aug 10 2006, 10:53 AM, said:

I just burned a new slideshow dvd. It works fine in my computer but will not work in my dvd player. I have created other DVD's that do play in my DVD so I do not think its my player. Any thoughts?

I suspect this is not quite true. The first reason is because this is the first time this has happened and I have not changed my blanks (hp) and this is after a whole raft of burnings. I can, however, slow down the burn and see if that makes any difference.

[james_hardin]

I did have a 25 pack of DVD's go bad. They were a few years old and just stopped letting me burn to them. Even bought a new burner (any excuse!) but they would not burn.

These were a no name brand but the point is that it is possible to have media go bad even from the same spindle.

[REDWAGON]

Good point James. I have had that same thging happen to me with an off brand media. Out of a spindle of 25, there were about 5 or 6 that just were N.G. I finally just trashed the whole spindle rather than worry about which one was good or bad. Another possibility is the set top player itself. They don't last forever. Or possibly it's just gotten dirty. Although the OP is using HP brand Media, I have never had any problems with them, but I don't use them any more. Not because they were bad in any way, it's just that I prefer Verbatim and TDK.

Frank....

[grandpabruce]

drufus2002, on Aug 10 2006, 01:48 PM, said:

I suspect this is not quite true. The first reason is because this is the first time this has happened and I have not changed my blanks (hp) and this is after a whole raft of burnings. I can, however, slow down the burn and see if that makes any difference.

You suspect wrong. If it isn't the media, then it could be your player. Up to you to find out. I am only the messenger, so don't shoot me. You can only shoot me so many times, and I shoot back.

[drufus2002]

grandpabruce, on Aug 10 2006, 01:59 PM, said:

You suspect wrong. If it isn't the media, then it could be your player. Up to you to find out. I am only the messenger, so don't shoot me. You can only shoot me so many times, and I shoot back.

My apologies. I was simply saying that the dvd blanks that I have been using have worked flawlessly for about 100 burns. On the other hand I slowed down the burn by 50% and that seemed to cure the problem, therefore, the fault lays firmly with me and not the program. Again - my apologies.

On another note I was burning an iso file, to my disk, with my dvd, and, while I was watching the screen it simply stopped - no error, no nothing. I checked programs and processes and the program was using no resources - it had simply stopped. I have, incidentally, installed the patch that was supposed to cure this. The ISO file itself plays - it simply has no menu. I thought that was kindof interesting.

[grandpabruce]

drufus2002, on Aug 11 2006, 11:23 AM, said:

My apologies. I was simply saying that the dvd blanks that I have been using have worked flawlessly for about 100 burns. On the other hand I slowed down the burn by 50% and that seemed to cure the problem, therefore, the fault lays firmly with me and not the program. Again - my apologies.

On another note I was burning an iso file, to my disk, with my dvd, and, while I was watching the screen it simply stopped - no error, no nothing. I checked programs and processes and the program was using no resources - it had simply stopped. I have, incidentally, installed the patch that was supposed to cure this. The ISO file itself plays - it simply has no menu. I thought that was kindof interesting.

No apology needed. I always burn my productions at 4X or 6X at the most, no matter how fast the media.

Also, if I view my ISO's, using Disc Copier, I don't see the menus, either.

[drufus2002]

grandpabruce, on Aug 11 2006, 10:55 AM, said:

No apology needed. I always burn my productions at 4X or 6X at the most, no matter how fast the media.

Also, if I view my ISO's, using Disc Copier, I don't see the menus, either.

I use a virtual cd/dvd player from Daemon Tools (free at download.com) which seems designed to read .iso files and shows me, exactly, what will be produced (if the burn is successful). I have noticed that people are using Disc Copier but I do not know what that program is. If it comes with the EMC package then I would fail as I only have videowave. I looked at EMC and found that I really don't need all the stuff.

Thanks for the reply..................