Unreadable Discs?

[R_i_c]

hi,

 

good ol' 12 hour midnight oil burner here

 

how do i burn my video projects to dvd in a format that can be recognised by other players please?

 

this evening (morning) i have burnt untold discs which my pc can play back but no other dvd player recognises

 

help please - before my eyes drop out!

 

:-o

 

thanks

 

Ric

[Brendon]

Ric,

 

I think you'd best tell us just what you ARE doing, what you WANT to do, and what program(s) in the suite you're doing it with, then perhaps we can see where you're going wrong.

 

It might also help to tell us what sort of discs you're using, and can your player "see" burned discs rather than the silver pressed ones that commercial videos come on.

[sknis]

many thanks

 

yes i feel 90 after last night

 

i fear this may not be as straightforward as it could be since i am fairly new to Creator. i am using blank media Verbatim dvd discs

 

i saved / created my project in Edit Video Advanced - placed blank dvd in disc drawer - then selected 'burn' at DVD Express (icon). the project burned for a long time, both stats eventually showing 100% / 100% with an OK button to press. i pressed this and the dialogue box vanished. then nothing. at one stage i got the dvd to play on the same pc (Dell Inspiron 531) and i thought 'great!', but when i tried to eject it to try it on a separate dvd player i got an error message telling me to wait! or the disc would be 'unplayable on any other system'. so i waited and eventually the disc appeared, but it plays on the Dell and nowhere else

 

may well have selected 'data disk' in error? - there is no option that i can see for 'burn you movie to disk' which is all i want - i don't even want a menu, title or anything - just saved 'home footage' on disc that i can watch on other dvd players as well as my pc

 

my main problem is that i do not fully understand the Roxio language - i have used this software in the recent past with great results but i think that was beginners luck? :-o

 

many thanks again

 

R

 

That should have worked but I do not understand all that dialog you are getting. Have you tried a different DVD player. You can go to a shop that sells DVD players and try it there. Check to make sure your DVD player. If you are using +R media make sure your DVD player accepts that and vice versa. The same holds true for RW media.

 

This is what you should do for best results. Make and save your project in Edit Video-Advanced (Video Wave. Close that application and open "Create DVD-Advanced' (My DVD). The first thing to do is to go to the top menu and select file >new Project> select DVD, no menu. You'll get some messages. Add the project from VideoWave via "Add new Movie". When you do that the movie will start to play. Go to burn, select ISO file; deselect burn to DVD. Name the file and the location where you want it. Start the encoding. If there is a problem with the Video Wave project, it will hang and you will need to go back to Video Wave to fix it. Once the ISO is completd, close My DVD and open Video Copy and Convert. In the Video Copy tab, navigate to the ISO file; on the right select the DVD burner. That should do it.

 

 

 

[R_i_c]

That should have worked but I do not understand all that dialog you are getting. Have you tried a different DVD player. You can go to a shop that sells DVD players and try it there. Check to make sure your DVD player. If you are using +R media make sure your DVD player accepts that and vice versa. The same holds true for RW media.

 

This is what you should do for best results. Make and save your project in Edit Video-Advanced (Video Wave. Close that application and open "Create DVD-Advanced' (My DVD). The first thing to do is to go to the top menu and select file >new Project> select DVD, no menu. You'll get some messages. Add the project from VideoWave via "Add new Movie". When you do that the movie will start to play. Go to burn, select ISO file; deselect burn to DVD. Name the file and the location where you want it. Start the encoding. If there is a problem with the Video Wave project, it will hang and you will need to go back to Video Wave to fix it. Once the ISO is completd, close My DVD and open Video Copy and Convert. In the Video Copy tab, navigate to the ISO file; on the right select the DVD burner. That should do it.

 

that's brilliant Steve - thanks - i have copied your instructions for future reference

 

there are multiple problems here: my Nvidia graphics card has an unstable driver (i learn from google) and i think Vista-Windows automatically swopped old for new drivers in the middle of my project - all i got was a black screen and a dead harddrive while the dual AMD processor fell on its face. i sincerely hope this driver glitch is over now, i have had about 9 hours of hung / unstable computering and it seems to have balanced itself the last couple of hours

 

dvd players: while Roxio has been unavailable i have had recourse to the much older Adobe PE3 edit software (on a P4). i burnt a (Sony) dvd on this 1 hour ago and tried it in a Daytek dvd player - the dvd froze and i discarded it. i burnt another but this time played it back on my P4 and it played fine, but when i tried it on the Daytek it froze again. so i swopped it onto a Philips player and it played great

 

there appears to be no rhyme or reason to this because i have burnt dvd's just like the above and they play on the Daytek

 

forgive me for asking but i swear there used to be a 'finalise dvd disc' icon on my edition of RC2009 which has either disappeared or i have forgotten which window it appears on - this icon said something on it like 'use this program to ensure your disc is playable on a variety of players' or something like that, or am i dreaming?

 

i use DVD-R discs because they always seem to work for me - when things are going ok; the RW discs can be a waste of time i find because when you erase them optical drives often reject them?

 

many thanks again

 

R

[sknis]

My 90 year old friend had the same problem and it turned out he was burning DVD data discs and not DVD video discs? What application are you using to burn the show to a disc?

[R_i_c]

many thanks

 

yes i feel 90 after last night

 

i fear this may not be as straightforward as it could be since i am fairly new to Creator. i am using blank media Verbatim dvd discs

 

i saved / created my project in Edit Video Advanced - placed blank dvd in disc drawer - then selected 'burn' at DVD Express (icon). the project burned for a long time, both stats eventually showing 100% / 100% with an OK button to press. i pressed this and the dialogue box vanished. then nothing. at one stage i got the dvd to play on the same pc (Dell Inspiron 531) and i thought 'great!', but when i tried to eject it to try it on a separate dvd player i got an error message telling me to wait! or the disc would be 'unplayable on any other system'. so i waited and eventually the disc appeared, but it plays on the Dell and nowhere else

 

may well have selected 'data disk' in error? - there is no option that i can see for 'burn you movie to disk' which is all i want - i don't even want a menu, title or anything - just saved 'home footage' on disc that i can watch on other dvd players as well as my pc

 

my main problem is that i do not fully understand the Roxio language - i have used this software in the recent past with great results but i think that was beginners luck? :-o

 

many thanks again

 

R