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[Larna]

I have just purchased MY DVD 8 and successfully created a DVD project with menu containg 4 buttons to 3xfive-minute videos, and a slideshow with music.  It looks excellent when previewed on my Dell 5150 PC, and I burned it to DVD+R successfully.  However, it does not play on my Panasonic DVD player DVD-S35, even though it says it is compatible with CD+R.  It will play without any problems on a portable DVD player - Wharfedale WDP-127.  Can anyone help as I need it for an important family event in a few days time, and I thought it would play on most DVD players.

[james_hardin]

If it plays on other players, it clearly is not compatible with your Panasonic Player…

Sometimes just going to a different brand of media, like Verbatim, will do the trick, but since Panasonic is a card carrying member of the 'dash' media, try using DVD-R media.

[Larna]

james_hardin, on Sep 7 2006, 03:17 AM, said:

If it plays on other players, it clearly is not compatible with your Panasonic Player…

Sometimes just going to a different brand of media, like Verbatim, will do the trick, but since Panasonic is a card carrying member of the 'dash' media, try using DVD-R media.

Thank you for your help.  I bought some DVD-R discs & it does work.  However, in a short black & white movie the colour changed to purple for part of it!  My Panasonic player is obviously not too keen, so it may be time to look at others on the market.  I fancy a DVD player with a hard drive recorder for those programmes that you don't want to miss.  May give Panasonic a miss this time!

[Larna]

Larna, on Sep 7 2006, 01:19 PM, said:

Thank you for your help.  I bought some DVD-R discs & it does work.  However, in a short black & white movie the colour changed to purple for part of it!  My Panasonic player is obviously not too keen, so it may be time to look at others on the market.  I fancy a DVD player with a hard drive recorder for those programmes that you don't want to miss.  May give Panasonic a miss this time!

I did get the DVD to play, can't remember how, using a DVD-R disc.  It was great, & my family all loved it - I have to make more copies.  

This spurred me on to make a wedding DVD of my neice's recent wedding pics, & short videos, all taken with my digital camera.  I have used 4 audio tracks, various transitions, & it looks terrific on PC.  It burned OK, but will not play on PC or any DVD player.  My PC will not even recognise that the disc exists in any drive after it has been burned.  My family, who live a few hundred miles away are waiting for me to send them copies.  I am so close, but completely stuck at the moment.

Can anyone help?