Works on some DVD players but not all?

[The Stinger]

Can anyone tell me if I backup a DVD, why does it work on some DVD players and not others? Is it just the player itself or if its media? I am using the Accus, they all work on my DVD players but if I take it to a friends house with a differnt DVD player it won't play. I know this question has probably been asked before, and I am willing to quess its the hardware, but I wanted to be sure. Also, the strange thing is his dvd player says it will read dvd+r and -r but it won't work.

[Gazorgan]

It's your player. As I recall something like 70% support -R, 80% support +r, and 90% support CDR.

That means that , on average, 50% will play anything, and about 1% won't play anything but a commercial DVD. That's why I alwas take a stack of disks to the store with me when buying a new player. Well, actually I just get a $40 Apex 1201 that plays everything and go from there.....

And some media is jsut crap, players can be real picky about media.

[lordsmurf]

About 90-95% support DVD-R.
About 85-90% support DVD+R. Bit-setting may help some.
About 60-75% for +RW and -RW.

You may not be in there.

Also, be sure the discs are burned compliant, some are pickier than others. Learn about UDF and UDF/ISO and other restrictions of the burn. Learn what your burning software does and how compliant it is.

[The Stinger]

"Lordsmurf"

Now when you say make sure my discs are burned compliant, what exactly does than mean. Sorry still kind of new to this. And how do I learn about my burn software compliant?

[The Stinger]

As of right now I use UDF, and it seems to always work on my stand alones but never on my friends. Is there much difference between UDF & UDF/ISO? Would the UDF/ISO option help with my problem?

[Richard_G]

It could just as easily be the media. I've just done 25 copies of the same DVD iso file for different people using Ritek G04 disks (Stuff that I produced myself, not copyrighted before anyone gets worried). Of these, only one person came back to me with a problem. It would try to play but kept glitching and freezing for a few seconds and the sound was intermittent. This was being played on a very cheap, two year old budget player. It would play on everything that I tried it on so it didn't seem to be a faulty burn. I burned the same iso onto a Princo and the machine just told me there was no disk! (even though the Princo played on my machine).

[p0rnLiME]

It's the combination of media\software that doe is all

Next time you are burning a dvd make an iso with ImgTool classic and burn with any desired program (my choice would be DVD Decrypter), this would as far as i know make the disc more compatible.

[FulciLives]

It's the combination of media\software that doe is all

Next time you are burning a dvd make an iso with ImgTool classic and burn with any desired program (my choice would be DVD Decrypter), this would as far as i know make the disc more compatible.

I agree. It is hard to go wrong using ImgTool classic and DVD Decrypter.

I would never use NERO to burn a DVD

Never used it but I have heard good things about RecordNowMax but the ImgTool classic and DVD Decrypter combo are FREEWARE so unless you got RecordNowMax with your DVD burner I wouldn't spend money on it.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman