Problem burning DVD using Roxio or ImgBurn

[cobra jet]

I just completed a 20 min video and I am having a problem burning it to DVD. I shot the video with my Sony DCR-HC 40 camcorder. I then capture the clips through my firewire card into Premiere 6.5, made my edits and perform an “Export Movie” as an uncompressed AVI file. I then encode using MainConcept MPEG Encoder. I then author the file using DVD Author 2 And output the files to my hard drive. Once the vob files have been created I am able to play them on my computer using Power DVD with out any problems. I have tried to burn a DVD using both ImgBurn and Roxio Creator 6. The DVD (I have tried 3) that I make using ImgBurn work on all three of my players but have several places that the DVD freezes for a second or two. The DVD that I make using Roxio work flawlessly on one of my three players but the other two players do not ever recognize the disk. Can anyone tell me the best settings to use on either Roxio or ImgBurn to get the best results?

[69mako]

First off, what media did you use and what speed did you burn at?

When you used IMGBURN, did you verify the write afterwards? If so, did it verify OK? Are you useing the latest version?

I don't use Roxio, so I can help you there.

Mako

[redwudz]

What DVD media are you using? That has much more bearing on playback problems than the software or burner. And it's the easiest thing to change. Being able to play them on a software player doesn't always mean that much. They can very forgiving with problems.

And unfortunately, you can have media that works better with some players than others and some burners and rarely, some burning software. I wouldn't think you would have problems with ImgBurn, though.

One other thought is the bitrate used. With a short video, it's easier to use a overly high bitrate that some players can have problems with, causing problems similar to what you describe. In general, you don't want your video bitrate to go much above 9800Kbps with a DVD. If yours is up above 10,000Kbps, that could be a problem.

Look to the upper left for 'WHAT IS' DVD to see the DVD specifications, including suggested bitrates. <<<<<<

[cobra jet]

I am using Verbatim “16X certified” DVD-R disks. I am burning at 4X speed. I used a constant bit rate of 8,000 when I encoded my file with MPEG Encoder. I am using ver 2.1 of ImgeBurn with a file system of ISO9660 + UDF. Below is a screen shot of the file that I used to create my vob files with DVD Author 2.0

[cobra jet]

I went out and picked up some HP DVD+R disks and burned 4 more DVD’s using both ImgBurn and Roxio and I none of them worked. Is it possible that messed something up when I encoded my AVI file using MPEG Encoder? In my above post, I attached a screen print from G Spot of the MPEG file I am using. Any help would be appreciated.

[cobra jet]

One more thing. I did verify the write afterwards with ImgBurn and it was ok.

[redwudz]

Sorry, I'm not seeing anything wrong in your Gspot post. Unless I am missing something, it looks fine. You have a widescreen MPEG-2 video file. LPCM takes up a lot of audio DVD space compared to AC3 or MPEG 1, layer 2 audio, but it is compliant with the NTSC DVD standard.

The only conclusion I can come to is your player(s) at fault or there is a problem with your burner. This is if you are absolutely sure that the media you are using works perfectly with your burner and your players. It's not really likely that this is a software problem with your burning or encoding software.

Maybe someone else can come up with a better explanation.