Hi there,

Not really sure which forum to post this in so thought I would start here.

My problem is that I have a Pioneer DVR-440HX-S. Now the player is great, however I have some real problems creating DVD's.

I run Fedora core 5 and use the following combination to convert my avi files from my camcorder to dvd compatible files (coz family and friends dvd players dont support divx like mine player):

ffmpeg -i test.avi -target film-dvd test.mpg

So this creates the dvd compatible mpg.

Then to bundle this I used dvdauthor with the following template:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<dvdauthor>
<vmgm />
<titleset>
<titles>
<audio lang="en"/>
<pgc>
<vob file="test.mpg" />
</pgc>
</titles>
</titleset>
</dvdauthor>

which correctly creates my VIDEO_TS etc directory and files using

dvdauthor -o testdir -x test.xml

I then use mkisofs to create the compliant dvd iso structure:

mkisofs -dvd-video -o test.iso testdir

I then use k3b to burn the iso file.

Now to the strange thing. This plays find on friends DVD players but on my pioneer, after 3 seconds of video, the player automatically pauses it! It's driving me crazy.

If I put more chapters on there, it does exactly the same, i.e. pauses after 3 seconds for each chapter. If I try and fast forward quickly, it knows to pause after 3 seconds....

Can anyone help out with this?!? Is it basically down to the player or am I missing some bloody obvious options along the way.

Any help would be truely appreciated and stop me pulling out my hair.

I have exactly the same problem if I burn to DVD+R or DVD-R or DVD+RW or DVD-RW...

Thanks in advance.

Ram.
p.s. apolgies if this is the wrong topic to post this in.