DVD buning

[dazzle3]

Does any one the correcy method for buring DVD I have used ulead DVD factory and MyDVD this programs work fine . here comes the BUT the disk burnt with these programs will not play on my stand alone DVD player Sony DV3000.
from a previous post the sloution to my problem is to use a burning program such as instant CD/DVD or nero , does any one no the correct procedure as I have tried and getting no were fast , I have checked the compatibilty of my stand alone DVD and it should play DVD-R. Any help welcome cheers .

[Video Arcade]

Does your VCD play VCDs?

If the answer is no which it probaly will be then you will not be able to or I am assuming you wont be able to play them.

All the very top brands that were in the original consortium to produce DVD wanted no pirated material to be used on their machines.

Try the DVD on a cheap and nasty DVD player, I think I know who you are so goto Argos get one for £99.95 under 16 money day guareentee and give that a go and if it works, better to splash out £100 on a cheap DVD player and get cheap films rather.

Even though you should always buy the originals as well as making backups

[alkieman]

There could be a couple of issues here.

Check the bitrate of the MPEG files you are using. Some DVD authoring software will import files that are slightly higher bitrate than the maximum supposedly supported by DVD players. This results in a DVD that will play on a PC but not in most DVD players. Properly written authoring software should of course warn you that the bitrate is too high but your version may not do so. Try a test by creating an MPEG 2 file that is DVD compliant but keep the maximum bitrate down to less than 8MB/sec. Encode that to a DVD-RW and test it if your player supports DVD-RW. If it works, try burning a DVD-R with the same disc image. Incidently, you can now get bulk DVD-R discs for only 1.99 UKP each from SVPCOMMUNICATIONS.COM. They have been working fine in my Pioneer DVD writer and 737 DVD player.

Also, your player may not actually be DVD-R capable. Some companies have just upgraded their players to support DVD-R and not changed model numbers. Most players can support DVD-R by means of a firmware upgrade but a few wont be able to even when upgraded. Again, you could try a DVD-RW disc. They have different reflectivity and it has been reported that some players witll play -RW discs when they dont play -R discs.

Try and check your discs in a friends player too, if they play fine in his/hers and not yours then your player doesn't support DVD-R even if it says so in the manual.