Cannot Play On Settop Player :(

[lcwantsdvd]

ALL I'M TRYING TO DO IS BURN SOME JPEG FILES TO DVD SO PEOPLE CAN SEE THEM ON THE TV.

 

My first project went OK, about 4-5 menu pages, multiple JPEGs per title probably around 80% used of a 4Gig DVD. I burned it to a DVD, it has the ROXIOPLASMA, YOUR_PHOTOS, and VIDEO_TS Directories, and it plays on my PC and TV. It was memorex media. The second one is smaller, about 2500Mb, I got the 0x80004005 GEV_PLASMA_FINALIZE/ERASE_FAILED error, so I burnt to an image file. Burning to an image file, and then using the Roxio disc copier, I get the VIDEO_TS Directory, however the ROXIOPLASMA, YOUR_PHOTOS folders are not there, only 0b files with their names. Furthermore, the VIDEO_TS directory seems to be short some files. Putting it in my PC it reads the directories and can be forced to play some of the shows but it does not autoplay. On my TV it just tells me to eject it as it's not playable. Now that it's wasted the remaining few DVD's I had from Memorex I cracked open a K-Hypermedia pack. Disabling Mcaffee, Roxio Drag-to-Disc, Intervideo Wincinema, and the Plextools applications helped *some*. Now, I can burn striaght to DVD, it will complete, but give me the 0b ROXIOPLASMA, YOUR_PHOTOS directories and not playable on a TV and only force-readable on a PC (YES I FINALIZE THE DISCS). I've tried creating ISO's a few times, both with and without the AV and other applications running, but always burn the DVD with the same lack of autoplay. I don't even touch my PC while it is burning, I keep the fans up to make sure the machine is cool, no screensavers, no internet surfing, nothing! The ISO is kept on my E: drive which is a 5Gb partition with nothing but these two projects!

 

(I have administrator rights and am using that account to create and burn the DVD) Oh, and after the final attempt at doing an ISO, once the ISO was written my machine ran incredibly slow. I rebooted and then windows had to do a consistency check on that drive >

 

Also I cannot update my software as it was bundled with the Plextor drive (though they had never led me astray before and has no CD-Key to enter that I can find. My version is "Roxio Easy Media Creator [ha!] 7 Basic DVD Edition Build 7.1.0.95 ENU.

 

Is there any fix for this?

 

All I really want to do is show some digital pictures to people without ready PC access. I've already wasted seven (7!) DVD's on this.

 

 

Installed all new copies of adaware and spybot S&D, scanned my machine (nothing found made sure McAfee was up to date, even updated my Plextools applet to the 2.23 version from my 2.17. Tried burning a DVD (fuly quit the virusscan program first) with the save original images, create an iso, and burn dvd (all 3 options) selected, with the exact same results as before. A (9th?) DVD-Coaster that has a valid VIDEO_TS folder, but the ROXIOPLASMA folder being created as a 0 byte file instead aof a data folder, and the same with the YOUR_PHOTOS folder being nonexistant, with only a 0 byte file in its place. Put it in my TV and PC, nothing plays.

 

 

I looked into my ISO file with Servant Salamander. It showed me that the ROXIOPLASMA and the YOUR_PHOTOS directories are present, have valid files inside of them, and look normal. Followed most of the advice I've seen in these forums and tried the trial Nero to burn the ISO image to DVD. It burns the image, the same as the rox dvd disc copier does however it leaves me with the 0b ROXIOPLASMA and the YOUR_PHOTOS directories!?! They're correct in the ISO so why can't I burn them to the DVD?!?

 

I tried using roxio disc copier to create an image from my coaster, and it creates an ISO with the ROXIOPLASMA and the MY_PHOTOS directories intact?!?

 

So what's causing both NERO and roxio to burn the iso's where two directories aren't accessable and won't allow the disc to autoplay?!? It's like the FAT of the DVD is messed up.

[Guest mlpasley]

On my PC it just recognizes it as a disk with data on and opens explorer to display the contents.

 

If I open any of my DVD players on my pc they just stare blanky at the disc, finding nothing readable. If I put it in my TV it tells me the disc is not a readable type.

 

Obviously something is going on either in the ISO creation or encoding for any number of other projects worked right, just not this one..

 

If you put a homemade DVD into your computer, Windows will automatically try to play it. You need to hit 'Cancel'. Now open up the program that you want to play the DVD..EMC7 comes with Cineplayer or Roxio player that will play the DVD. A lot of computers also come with a free DVD playing program like Cyberlink's Power DVD.

 

What kind of DVDs does your DVD player play? Some will play + R (Sony's seem to prefer that type, others read - R and some will read both. You need to check the owners manual. Also make certain that there are no fingerprints or dust on any portion of the burned side, including the rim. That can make a DVD unreadable.

 

You need to burn an iso file to a dvd using Disk Copier.

[ss18]

How I got my Kodak Photos to DVD and Have them Burn To Disk to Play On Home DVD Player. I frist Created a slide show... I DID NOT Create the Disk from There... I clicked on Edit to Video Wave.... While In Video Wave... I Then Added THe background Music I wanted to Photos then I Click on Create a video File... Next I then Clicked on Burn ... CLICKED on Project Settings... UNCLICKED Defaults... Set to NSTC... AND Picked MPEG... Then I Burned the Disk.... I Plays in Windows Media and ALSO Plays on My Home DVD Player. I USED DVD + R.. to burn on. Also, I haven't use the EMC8 That much... But there is Other area... I came across that ALLOWS you to Set BURNING Project In SO MANY Different Formats... MPEG -2 Small, Larger... WMA..... A WHOLE List. I Don't Remember where I saw it. Good Luck.

[lcwantsdvd]

Ok guys, back to where my last post was. I grabbed about 100Mb of other photos lying around my HDD and threw them into a quick project. It burnt straight to DVD fine, with McAffee AV and AIM running in the background.

 

So back to the orig. question why is the one project unable to burn a file?

 

Also two weeks ago I posed an ask roxanne question and created a help ticket. Is roxio usually quick on responses?

[lcwantsdvd]

More updates, as usual, more failures. Made a small project it burnt and worked ok.

 

Took all the photos used in this project, several pointless hours later, had recreated the project in dvd-builder. Burnt it to an ISO. burnt the ISO to disc, no change. The your_photos and roxioplasma directories are corrupt and unreadable. GRRRRRRRR.

[Guest mlpasley]

More updates, as usual, more failures. Made a small project it burnt and worked ok.

 

Took all the photos used in this project, several pointless hours later, had recreated the project in dvd-builder. Burnt it to an ISO. burnt the ISO to disc, no change. The your_photos and roxioplasma directories are corrupt and unreadable. GRRRRRRRR.

 

What are you playing the DVD on when you get that message? What program are you using to play the DVD on your computer?

[lcwantsdvd]

What are you playing the DVD on when you get that message? What program are you using to play the DVD on your computer?

 

I doesn't matter. On my PC it just recognizes it as a disk with data on and opens explorer to display the contents. If I open any of my DVD players on my pc they just stare blanky at the disc, finding nothing readable. If I put it in my TV it tells me the disc is not a readable type.

 

Obviously something is going on either in the ISO creation or encoding for any number of other projects worked right, just not this one. The others were great wheather I burnt to ISO or direct to disc, this one slways "seems" to work right but mreely produces corrupted discs.

[bimicher]

I doesn't matter. On my PC it just recognizes it as a disk with data on and opens explorer to display the contents. If I open any of my DVD players on my pc they just stare blanky at the disc, finding nothing readable. If I put it in my TV it tells me the disc is not a readable type.

 

Obviously something is going on either in the ISO creation or encoding for any number of other projects worked right, just not this one. The others were great wheather I burnt to ISO or direct to disc, this one slways "seems" to work right but mreely produces corrupted discs.

 

What program did you use to burn the ISO file to DVD?

[grandpabruce]

I doesn't matter. On my PC it just recognizes it as a disk with data on and opens explorer to display the contents. If I open any of my DVD players on my pc they just stare blanky at the disc, finding nothing readable. If I put it in my TV it tells me the disc is not a readable type.

 

Obviously something is going on either in the ISO creation or encoding for any number of other projects worked right, just not this one. The others were great wheather I burnt to ISO or direct to disc, this one slways "seems" to work right but mreely produces corrupted discs.

 

It sounds like you burned the ISO to DVD, as a data file, not a movie file. Use Disc Copier to copy it to a DVD as a movie.

[deejmaster]

An internal aspi-layer? Like a DVD-writers' Firmware version of aspi-layer? Or a software version that is integrated into the program so that it is kinda like "Aspi on-the-fly". So if the Roxio program becomes corrupt, then you just have to reload the whole ball of wax, kinda internal aspi-layer?

[lcwantsdvd]

You need to burn an iso file to a dvd using Disk Copier.

 

Ok, guys now it seems like you're saying something new I can use. How, properly, do I burn the ISO to a DVD as a "movie file"? I'm using Disc Copier 7. Not 7.5. I go to Disc Copier, select from file, pick my ISO. It says: SF and other2.iso Data Disc 1 Track(s)

Track 01 Name:DVDBuilder Type data track Size 2.27Gb

How do I convince DVD Builder to burn this as a movie? Or, failing that, how do I get DVD Builder to create an ISO as a movie?

 

Interestingly, I opened up my show SJSC.iso that DOES work correctly and it does show it as a movie type to copy. so PLEASE how can I get this other project to burn as a movie???

[Guest mlpasley]

How do I convince DVD Builder to burn this as a movie? Or, failing that, how do I get DVD Builder to create an ISO as a movie?

 

Interestingly, I opened up my show SJSC.iso that DOES work correctly and it does show it as a movie type to copy. so PLEASE how can I get this other project to burn as a movie???

 

You don't convince DVD Builder to burn it as a movie.

 

Normally, in Disk Copier, you make the filename.iso (SF and other2.iso) as the source and the DVD burner as the destination. Hit Burn and burn the DVD. Disk Copier will burn a the movie to the DVD just as if you'd used DVD Builder to burn the movie.

 

However, I'm not certain that I understand what is in that .iso file. Is it one movie or two? Does the movie show up in the Disk Copier window when you click on the SF and other2.iso file? If not, what do you see in the area under the source?

[lcwantsdvd]

You don't convince DVD Builder to burn it as a movie.

 

Normally, in Disk Copier, you make the filename.iso (SF and other2.iso) as the source and the DVD burner as the destination. Hit Burn and burn the DVD. Disk Copier will burn a the movie to the DVD just as if you'd used DVD Builder to burn the movie.

 

However, I'm not certain that I understand what is in that .iso file. Is it one movie or two? Does the movie show up in the Disk Copier window when you click on the SF and other2.iso file? If not, what do you see in the area under the source?

 

I think therein lies my problem. DVD Builder isn't convinced I'm burning a movie.

 

I have two seperate JPEG Slideshows SF is the problematic one. SJ is the working one. The Movie does NOT show up when I click the SF ISO file. It just shows what I listed above, one 2+Gb Data Track. IF however, I was to click on the SJ ISO file, which has already made me a good DVD, it shows up in Disk Copier as a Movie deal, not a data track.

 

So then, why is DVD Builder making SF an ISO that is read by Disc Copier as a data track yet the others properly show as movies?

[Guest mlpasley]

So then, why is DVD Builder making SF an ISO that is read by Disc Copier as a data track yet the others properly show as movies?

 

Darned if I know.

 

How did you make that SF ISO file? Try burning that SF ISO file to a folder on your hard drive, then open the folder and see what was in the ISO file. An 'image file' just contains data. That data could be a movie or data files. For some reason, yours seems to contain data and not the slideshow. I could be wrong, but we'll never know til you burn it to a folder and look at the contents.

 

Do you have the original production? I think the only way you're going to get a slideshow movie that you can use is to burn the SF production to another .iso file or a DVD.

 

However, if you burn the SF production to another .iso file (with a different name) and you still get a data file, then I'm stumped.

[lcwantsdvd]

How did you make that SF ISO file? Try burning that SF ISO file to a folder on your hard drive, then open the folder and see what was in the ISO file.

 

However, if you burn the SF production to another .iso file (with a different name) and you still get a data file, then I'm stumped.

 

How do I burn directly to HDD? DVD Builder? Disc Copier? All I can do in Disc Copier is copy to a DVD or to another ISO file.

 

I tried re-isoing my production again (3x? 4x?) and it's still just a data file. Didn't dare try another DVD to physically burn.

 

Also tried using disc copier to "burn" my "data" iso to a new iso and all I ended up with was another data ISO.

 

*Sigh* I guess I can copy a couple titles at a time to a new production, ISO it, open it in disc copier until it stops ISOing correctly.

[Guest mlpasley]

If the .iso file is on the DVD and the DVD is a DATA DVD, the movie won't show up in Disk Copier.

 

Before you start copying all those titles to a new project, you might try one more thing. I had a project that just wasn't right and everytime I tried to burn it, it came out with errors. Here's what I did to get it to work right.

 

If you started this project in VideoWave, in VW go into Tools\ Options\ File Control and delete the audio preview files. Also delete the .iso file on your hard drive. Do a File\ Save as and give the project a new name. Delete the first production.

 

 

 

Now in DVD Builder.....If you made it in DVD Builder or if you started it in VW, do a File\ Save as and give it another name, delete the .iso file on your hard drive, delete the original production (since you have 7.1), defragment your hard drive.

 

Try again. For some reason, the program would 'link' to the original production and iso file on the hard drive and I'd get the same error no matter what I tried. The key seemed to be defragmenting after I deleted the preview and .iso files.

[lcwantsdvd]

Now in DVD Builder.....If you made it in DVD Builder or if you started it in VW, do a File\ Save as and give it another name, delete the .iso file on your hard drive, delete the original production (since you have 7.1), defragment your hard drive.

 

Try again. For some reason, the program would 'link' to the original production and iso file on the hard drive and I'd get the same error no matter what I tried. The key seemed to be defragmenting after I deleted the preview and .iso files.

 

Tried that one looongg ago. Also tried making a new project, and copying all my old files to it. The partition is 99% empty so if rxo can deal with it.

 

Ended up leaving out one title of 10 jpeg pictures because roxio didn't like it. I can burn a dvd just fine without this title, OR if this is the ONLY title in the show it will make a movie dvd but if I put this title in a show with other titles it turns into a data dvd.

 

Those 10 jpegs weren't important ones anyways so I've given in and just won't keep them in the show. just one of those bugs I guess.

 

Anyoen know if issues like these were solved in EMC 7.5 or 8? Also do the newer versions support common windows tasks such as having two projects open at once, or at least allow you to open two copies of the program?

[james_hardin]

An internal aspi-layer? Like a DVD-writers' Firmware version of aspi-layer? Or a software version that is integrated into the program so that it is kinda like "Aspi on-the-fly". So if the Roxio program becomes corrupt, then you just have to reload the whole ball of wax, kinda internal aspi-layer?

No, I am talking about the aspi that is built into the XP operating system. If that is corrupted you have far bigger problems than you think!

 

A search of my 'video PC' revels only one. It had none prior to installing Ulead's VideoStudio last week.

 

But it did have Roxio's V7.5 and V8 installed and works just fine without an aspi.dll file on the system. In fact it was introduced in 3/04 with V7 and aspi problems disappeared from then on!

 

Only questions we get about it now are from those that haven't caught on to it yet.

[james_hardin]

Sometimes, there can be conflicts with the wnaspi32.dll or whatever it is called. Nero installs it's own version and I imagine Roxio has their version, along with Windows and Adaptec, etc.... When you switch progs and a version of the *.dll has already been loaded, this conflicts with program that the User wants to use. I experience this when I burn a CD with Nero on one drive, then turn around and try to burn a DVD with Disc Copier on another. It just doesn't want to recognize the new disc until I reboot and get the old driver out of the way. Just an idea

 

For the price, this suite should have been better designed.

The 'better design' is the fact that Roxio utilizes the internal aspi layer rather than relying on one that can be corrupted.

 

If you do a clean install of XP there is no aspi. Install Roxio and still no aspi.

 

Roxio is state of art software whereas (my opinion) Nero relies on an ever changing series of band-aid fixes.

[deejmaster]

Sometimes, there can be conflicts with the wnaspi32.dll or whatever it is called. Nero installs it's own version and I imagine Roxio has their version, along with Windows and Adaptec, etc.... When you switch progs and a version of the *.dll has already been loaded, this conflicts with program that the User wants to use. I experience this when I burn a CD with Nero on one drive, then turn around and try to burn a DVD with Disc Copier on another. It just doesn't want to recognize the new disc until I reboot and get the old driver out of the way. Just an idea

 

For the price, this suite should have been better designed.

[Guest mlpasley]

Believe me, I don't go to the help sites until I'm quite baffled and lost hope. The DVD, as a disc holding data, is recognized on my PC. It is NOT recognized as a playable "movie".

 

I took the DVD (with the corrupt files in the video_ts folder and the 0b your_photos and roxioplasma) and just told disc copier to make an iso from it. It happily did so and I looked into the iso with servant salamander. I was as shocked as you are there were files in there.

 

The limit, I was just checking to make sure it wasn't a bug in the program IE Oh you mean you used FOUR menus...three or five good, four will crash. One of those crazy things.

 

Don't lose hope yet. You're assuming that the files in the video_ts folder are corrupt and that might not be the case. I think the YourPhotos folder only contains photos if you've chosen the option to put the original photos on the DVD. The slideshow is made into a movie that will be in the Video_TS folder.

 

What are you using to try to play the DVD on your computer? If Cineplayer won't work, try Roxio player or see if you have something like PowerDVD on your computer. If I remember correctly, the sequence of when you insert the DVD into the drive may be important. You may have to insert the DVD then launch CinePlayer or vice versa.

 

Also, if you can, test the DVD on another DVD Player. Make certain that there are no fingerprints on the DVD burn surface anywhere even on the rim and make certain that the player can play the type of DVD that you have burned. ie. +R or -R.

 

Are these the same brand of DVDs that you used before?

[lcwantsdvd]

I don't know what the limit is. Usually the limit is the 'time' of one hour onto a 4.7 GB DVD or less than 2 hours on a dual layer DVD.

 

Now I'm confused. How do you rip the DVDs back to an .iso file on your hard drive if there are no files on your DVD?

 

If the DVDs are recognized by your DVD drive, but not by the DVD player that's a different problem.

 

Believe me, I don't go to the help sites until I'm quite baffled and lost hope. The DVD, as a disc holding data, is recognized on my PC. It is NOT recognized as a playable "movie".

 

I took the DVD (with the corrupt files in the video_ts folder and the 0b your_photos and roxioplasma) and just told disc copier to make an iso from it. It happily did so and I looked into the iso with servant salamander. I was as shocked as you are there were files in there.

 

The limit, I was just checking to make sure it wasn't a bug in the program IE Oh you mean you used FOUR menus...three or five good, four will crash. One of those crazy things.

[Guest mlpasley]

Good Grief! There has to be a better way than opening the case and doing all that unplugging and plugging!

 

If you're not doing periodic restore CDs, I'd recommend that you start doing that as a way of recovering your hard drive to a working state.

[michael18611]

Hmm I guess that's a route I need to look. I'd updated both firmware and the drive-mfr tools to the latest versions and this project was only the second I'd tried recording (first was the first DVD that went perfect). The odd part is if I rip the bad dvd's back to ISO I get all the files that were in the corrupt/missing directories of the DVD-I was thinking more towards the FAT of the disc or ISO file being improper (either when DVD-Builder creates the ISO or when the drive makes the file) so it only thinks the files aren't there.

 

Maybe I'll just make a teeny project and ensure the drive still burns right BTW are there any limitations to the amount of JPEGS you can put into a project? I've got about 5 menu pages, six titles a piece, up to 50 images in a title, up to 1.5Mb/image.

 

I have had similar problems with every cd/dvd burning/building software I have ever used. Something gets corrupted in the system, somewhere between the physical dvd/rw drive and the hard drive itself. Sometimes using device manager to uninstall the drive, then rebooting to redetect works, sometimes unplugging the dvd drive from the motherboard and clearing cmos works , sometimes reinstalling the burning software works, sometimes nothing works until I wipe the drive, unplug everything from the motherboard, clear cmos, replug everything and reinstall Windows fresh. It can be caused by trying to multi-task, or driver conflicts, or a myriad of other mysterious things. I'd be really interested to see what works for you. Michael.

[Guest mlpasley]

I don't know what the limit is. Usually the limit is the 'time' of one hour onto a 4.7 GB DVD or less than 2 hours on a dual layer DVD.

 

Now I'm confused. How do you rip the DVDs back to an .iso file on your hard drive if there are no files on your DVD?

 

If the DVDs are recognized by your DVD drive, but not by the DVD player that's a different problem.

[lcwantsdvd]

From your last two posts, it appears that burning in both Nero AND Roxio have both been unsuccessful. If the .iso file is more than 0 bytes, then there is a communication problem with the burner. For both programs to be unable to burn the DVD from an .iso is very unusual.

 

I'd suggest investing in a DVD RW DVD while you're trying to get this to work.

 

Then I'd check with the manufacturer of that DVD drive. It's possible that there is something wrong with that drive. Many manufacturers have testing programs which can spot problems and solve them.

 

In the meantime, you could go to the Windows Device Manager and see if the troubleshooter can fix the problem. I don't hold out much hope, but it's worth a shot.

 

Hmm I guess that's a route I need to look. I'd updated both firmware and the drive-mfr tools to the latest versions and this project was only the second I'd tried recording (first was the first DVD that went perfect). The odd part is if I rip the bad dvd's back to ISO I get all the files that were in the corrupt/missing directories of the DVD-I was thinking more towards the FAT of the disc or ISO file being improper (either when DVD-Builder creates the ISO or when the drive makes the file) so it only thinks the files aren't there.

 

Maybe I'll just make a teeny project and ensure the drive still burns right BTW are there any limitations to the amount of JPEGS you can put into a project? I've got about 5 menu pages, six titles a piece, up to 50 images in a title, up to 1.5Mb/image.