Most compatible -r disks and burning? Phillips not reading

[overloaded_ide]

I been doing pretty good for a newbie the last week. So I thought...

Now I found my disks will not play on a Phillips set top player, though they are near perfect VHS quality and play on my Norcent dp300. And also play well on the PC's

SO for the most compatible disk that anyone can play what would be sugested?
This is a hobby, but like all my hobbies, some-one comes along and wants it done. Local band I burn CDs for sometimes, now interested in music videos, small scale, 2hr performance. If I do those for them, they gotta play on about anything people might have.

I was capturing mpeg1, 352x480, 44,100 audio, 4,000 - 6,000 bits from VHS with ATI AIW Radeon.
I try to get the correct file size so I don't have to resize latter.

Then I been running the mpeg1 though Tempenc DVD author to get the IFO, BUP, Vob ect files.

I burn those to princo 1x -r disks using Nero Burning rom, Udf 1.02.

All of my disks are working for me, but I loaned out 3 disks to a friend and he said none would play on his phillips set top player. I then loaned him the real VHS tapes instead.

So would you think it's my capture, the way I burned em, or the disks I am using? Or his phillips is just not compatible with -r disks?

Thanks,

[RoopeT]

mpeg1, 352x480, 44,100 audio

Not a valid DVD resolution. The audio has to be 48 kHz too.

Valid DVD resolutions: 352x240/288 mpeg1
352x480/576 mpeg2, 720x480/576 mpeg2, 704x480/576 mpeg2, 720x288 mpeg2 (and some claim 352x240/288 mpeg2 too)

I have also no experience about TMPGEnc DVD author, have you tried any other mastering sofware? Does any other authoring software accept your video/audio streams?

I'm sure Philips DVD players have no problems with DVD-R discs (I personally have 2 Philips DVDs), although 1x Princo isn't very well knows for their quality, I would try some better media.

[overloaded_ide]

I am having problems capturing to mpeg 2. So I have been basically been using the closest settings I can get in mpeg1 for my capture software.

Then I just open the .mpg file and thought Tempenc DVD author was converting it to the correct format as it creates the DVD files, but I could be wrong.

Problem is I I have to use MMC 7.5 for my ATI AIW card, seems it does not do mpeg2 correctly and 44,100 is my highest audio setting. Can't use the newer 7.5 version becuase on my system it will not start a capture. ANother bug inthe software, I have a fat 32 drive for everything ecept capture, and the capture drive is NTFS. ATI claims thats fixed in ver 8.1, but you have to have a new ATI cd to install 8.1 and I have the cd for 7.5!

SO I am trying to make due with MPG 1. What happens to my video quality if I use 352x240 then? Should that posibly be a fix?
Do I then need to run it through tempenc to get and mpg 2 file, or just run the mpg1 through the dvd author program?

[mkelley]

First of all, you shouldn't be using TMPGEnc for your audio -- encode to elemental streams and strip out the .WAV file from your .AVI using WAV2AVI (oops, just noticed you're capturing to MPEG -- I'd capture to AVI if I were you).

Second, take your .WAV file and use BeSweet to create an AC3 version of it. It will be both more compact and more portable than MPEG (DVD standard requires either PCM or AC3 audio stream on disk -- not guaranteed to play MPEG sound. This is only NTSC, though, so if you're in PAL land you would be okay). The AC3 sound will be in the correct format if you follow the guidelines posted on this site for converting WAV to DVD compliant audio.

Lastly make sure all your audio sources are the same -- some authoring programs using single VTS have problems with multiple audio sources.

Use name brand disks and you should be as good as anyone can be (there will *always* be some players that won't play your disks, no matter what you do. Just let people know you will make them another one or refund their money if you take any from them if they don't play properly).

[overloaded_ide]

Thanks.

I'll be trying various things and will give it a shot that way.

I ghosted my boot drive and converted it to ntfs so now with the mmc 7.7 I can do cauptures in mp2 to the editing drive. Trying one now to see what happens with that.