DVD wouldn't read

[St-Emilion]

This is my 1st post in this forum. Reading all the content about professional encoding etc made me feel very noobish, which I am.
I have a problem. I got the Onkyo DV-S939 dvd player from a friend. The player however would not play my dvds that I burned from .iso files with Nero. It also doesn't play any dvds with video files (divx, mpeg, avi...) on them. It says disk error.
Am I doing something wrong?
I readed some feedback about my dvd player and some people could play 'burned dvds'.
Please help me.

[nic2k4]

A lot of the older DVD players weren't able to play DVD±R discs, how old is that Onkyo? Some of them just wouldn't play the +R discs, changing the booktype helped. With older players, your best bet is with -R discs.

[St-Emilion]

I only use -R discs. That Onkyo is about 3yrs old.

[budz]

The player however would not play my dvds that I burned from .iso files with Nero. It also doesn't play any dvds with video files (divx, mpeg, avi...) on them. It says disk error.

According to your specs of that Onkyo model it cannot playback divx, mpeg and avi files.
https://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers?DVDname=Onkyo+DV-S939+&Submit=Search&Search=Search...y=Name&hits=50
Therefore it can only playback regular dvd media. You'll need to get a dvd player that is capable of playing back divx files. Do a search in google or look at the dvd players list to your left of this website. Philips and Toshiba have dvd players that can play divx.

[St-Emilion]

But how about the dvds that I burned (cloned imgs)??

[nic2k4]

I took the time to read the review of this player (also posted by Budz). Yikes this thing doesn't want to play anything! The last reviewer pointed out that it won't play DVD-R written by Nero, then I would suggest ImgBurn.

As Budz was saying, it won't play anything but DVD movies (MPEG2) and (S)VCD (MPEG1), no DivX, AVI, MP4... Are your ISO's from DVD movies?

[St-Emilion]

nic2k4,
thanks for your time.

I did try to burn a dvd in ImgBurn. Nothing... still error. Is there a 'special' way to burn a .iso with ImgBurn?

[nic2k4]

Nope, it's that simple. If you open those DVD's with Windows Explorer, do you see IFO and VOB files?

[St-Emilion]

If I mount the image, yes I do see them. 2 folders AUDIO and VIDEO. In video .vob files.

[nic2k4]

Then I can think of only two possibilities, set the burn speed to 4x and/or use different brand media, preferrably media that's recommended for your burner (check the mfg website or just go for Verbatim).

[St-Emilion]

So, Verbatim discs work pretty well with everything?
Also, do I have to change anythign in options?

[nic2k4]

Of course, the best test would be to try playing your discs in an other player (not on a PC). This would prove weither your burns are OK and the Onkyo is just fussy.

[St-Emilion]

Alright, thanks a lot, will try asap.

[nic2k4]

Verbatim and Taiyo Yuden are Japanese manufacturers and apply higher standards in making discs. Most burner manufacturers use them as a standard to calibrate their drive's firmware.

If you mean options in ImgBurn, the default settings are all you need. Make sure it's set to DAO on the write page.

[budz]

If I mount the image, yes I do see them. 2 folders AUDIO and VIDEO. In video .vob files.

You can use imgtool classic to create your iso image from your video_ts folder. If I'm not mistaken IMGBURN can also create a iso image from your video_ts folder.

here's the link for the download for imgtool classic:
http://www.coujo.de/ib2/index.php?act=module&module=include&incl_name=download