homemade DVDs an Sanyo

[ssss25]

Hi,

I have a Sanyo 6040 DVD player. The strange thing I find is that it plays DVD+R and DVD+RW if I back-up one of my DVDs using DVDx-Copy... But when I make a homemade DVD (like my own Mpeg)... The player cannot play it!

Since it can read the Media I am using, and I know that cause it plays backed up DVDs, why cannot it play the homemade DVDs? Am I missing anything?

Thanks.

[Tommyknocker]

If you burn with Nero, you can burn a DVD-ROM with UDF 1.02. It's more compatible than the new UDF 1.05.

[Baldrick]

How do you convert, author and burn?
What tools are you using?

[msbardoe]

Hi All

I'm having the self same thing with a Sanyo 1500a so I will watch this discussion with interest. Below is a link were I am already trying to find an answer.

http://forum.321studios.com/?f=44&p=1&m=1923#m10417

Regards,
Martin

[HillJack]

I have a Sanyo 6040 DVD player. The strange thing I find is that it plays DVD+R and DVD+RW if I back-up one of my DVDs using DVDx-Copy... But when I make a homemade DVD (like my own Mpeg)... The player cannot play it!

I used to have a DVD-6040 up until a couple months ago when I got my DVD burner and replaced the Sanyo with a JVC and gave the Sanyo to my parents thinking the Sanyo wasn't going to like DVD-R's...

Commercial DVD's that I backed up would play just fine, yet anything I created myself, from vidcaps and home video, would not play. There are 2 reasons for this (so far):

1) The Sanyo DVD-6040 does NOT like MPEG audio on a DVD. The only way I could get it to play homeade DVD's was to encode the audio to AC3 using BeSweet.

2) The Sanyo DVD-6040 does not like DVD's which consume less than about half the 4.7GB of a disc. I recently did two DVD's of home video for my parents: a short 25 minute clip on one disc, and a full 2 hour video on another. Both were authored in the exact same way, and both used TDK/Ritek G04 media. Of both DVD's, the full 2 hour disc played perfectly on the Sanyo, but the 25 min one wasn't even recognized by the Sanyo. So, I took the 25 min DVD back home to re-author and created a dummy "DUMMY_TS" folder in it's root directory, and copied about 2GB of older VTS files from another compilation into the DUMMY_TS directory to bring the disc usage up to about 3.5GB in total. I re-burned the disc onto another TDK/Ritek G04 and viola, the Sanyo now plays the DVD just fine.

Take those two ideas into consideration -- they solved my problems

[ssss25]

Hmmmmm. Thanks for the info...

I tried NERO and NeoDVD in my burns FYI...

Does anyone know how I can add a dummy space into a DVD like the quote mentioned when using Nero?

Thanks for all your help and hints..

I'll have to figure out how to convert to AC3 now

Thanks.