People Having Problems PLaying Back My Files

[barneystorm]

Hi all...see if you can help me out here..

I've produced a DVD from an MPEG2 source 720 x 576 (PAL), bitrate was 7980 constant and audio was MPEG1 Layer2 @256KkHz...all pretty standard stuff..I put the complete file into TMPGEnc DVD Author, created the menu structure, and off we went.. End product looked superb..burned a few test discs, played them on my DVD drive, on my standalone, and checked them on my daughter DVD..all perfect. So I put it onto my FTP site for people to download off me.

Most people are just saying 'great job-perfect'....some people though are saying it will play perfectly from the files on their hard drive, but when they play back the disc they burn on their standalone player, it appears blocky/pixellated.

Could this just be down to the vaguaries of their DVD players? I know a few people who have downloaded it from me have been in North America where PAL compatibility isn't that great yet-If a PAL DVD was played back on an NTSC only DVD player/TV set=up, would that give this kind of problem?

Any help at all would be gratefully received...

[Grimey]

most standalones can play both ntsc and pal formats, but if the people who tried to play your file with a polayer that only plays ntsc, then the screen would be constantly flipping out. to my knowledge playing a pal disc in a ntsc system wouldn't casue pixellation and blockyness, but rather the screen flipping, much like on a vcr before you fix it with the tracking button.

[barneystorm]

Had someone else say they checked the video stream and found it to be too high..up to 15mb/s, yet according to my originals, it's 7980 maximum. I'm very dubious about this as my TMPGEnc DVD Author would not let me author at that bitrate.