Need Help Figuring Out Why DVD Won't Play

[MACKY]

I have 2 DVDs. Both play fine on my PC using PowerDVD. But when I try to play them on my StandAlone TV DVD Player one plays fine but the other one displays the messsge 'This type of disc cannot be played". I have used DVDInfo on both of the DVDs and they look identical. Both were burned on my PC using Nero ... both are the same brand/speed media. Regions are the same, format is the same .... any ideas of how I can find out what the problem is. This 'not able to play' problem surfaces maybe 1 out of every 10-15 DVDs ... all are created from a NewsGroup DL Source .... any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

[noki]

all are created from a NewsGroup DL Source

what's that?

[menes777]

Translation
Newsgroup DL Source = Newsgroup Download Source = Warez!

A Popular former pasttime of mine.

[johns0]

Sounds like its a media problem,try a good quality brand such as maxell dvd-r,look up newsgroups on google.com,every server provides a news service which you access them with.Newsgroups can be warez but it encompasses much more than that,discussion,forums,help,pictures etc..

[menes777]

Do you use Ritek Media? Also what kind of DVD Player is it?

I have exclusively been using Ritek Media and I have a similar problem, although much a much higher ratio of good to bad, more like 1 in 30 are bad, although they do play with a software player (PowerDVD) and on a newer DVD Player then mine. Nero's discscan says that the disc is alright.

[MACKY]

I've been using Princo 4X .... and when they don't work they don't work on either my Panasonic DVD-A320 or DVD-RV32 Players ... but do work in either og my PC's .... both with Pioneer drives with PowerDVD 5.0

[MACKY]

Oh yeah .... I've tried to burn a second DVD and it still fails .... I'm thinking that it isn't a media problem (but might be) but I'm having a hard time figuring out what it is.

[DeleriumMDK]

Maybe its a PAL source and only one of the players you have can convert PAL to NTSC. It may say Region 1 or Region free but still be a PAL source.

[Supreme2k]

Your best solution:

If the movie is available commercially, buy it. It is well worth the purchase to save you the hassle of mucking about with newsgroup downloads.

[MACKY]

Thats one of the things I was thinking that it could be ..... getting something in PAL .... I was trying to find some software that would tell me if a DVD was PAL or NTSC but I wasn't able to find one. Know of any?

[MACKY]

I think I found it .... was looking around the guides for converting PAL to NTSC and visa versa ..... found a tool called InfoEdit ......sure enough I downloaded InfoEdit .... and looked ... the DVD that doesn't play is PAL .... and both of my players say they will not play PAL .... now all I need to do is to convert it and reburn it and see it the problem is fixed.