STANDALONE DVD PROBS

[danne]

hi !
I wonder whats wrong if i sometimes cant play the burned movie in my standalone dvd player(philips dvd711), but when i play it on my pc with my nec 1300 it work fine . I always use the same dvd media so i know it works on my standalone.

thanks

[Hardcoreruss]

Will need more information such as media and full method. You say it plays on your home pc, is this after or before you have converted it ?

[roach76]

Try downloading the firmware update for your player...

http://philips.ianc.net/downloads.shtml

[danne]

On my neighbours cheap dvd player it worked fine so i now try to download new firmware,ill post a result after that...

[danne]

ok , it say on the firmware downlolad site that i must burn "a CD-R in Mode 2 CDROM-XA ISO9660 " .Whats that when i use nero , is it cd-extra mayby or what?????

[danne]

Just found out what is was... my dvd player cant read a dvd thats under 4gb of size ...thats all

[roach76]

It should be able to read any DVD under 4GB. It's part of the standard. I'd try the firmware update anyway it fixes all sorts of playback problems.

[poopyhead]

Just found out what is was... my dvd player cant read a dvd thats under 4gb of size ...thats all

that's very strange..i'm sure there are commercial DVDs that are under 4 gig.....so in this case, you wouldn't be able to play them, despite being a DVD standard....may wanna take phillips on this case...very weird

[txpharoah]

I hear this a lot (the whole minimum size error), and I don't believe it. That may be the workaround, but its not the solution to your problem.

[Bob W]

Never heard of a DVD player that can't play a DVD under 4GB. I have seen commercial DVD's as low as 3.2GB so a player that won't play that DVD makes zero sense.

[danne]

Its true , it cant play dvd,s under 4 gig.I just add some data outside the VIDEO_TS folder so it will become bigger than 4 gb then it works fine.I have tried it with 7-8 dvd,s know , its all the same!!!

[danne]

by the way , i cant flash my dvd because its has a "prom ic" not a "flash ic" that is acciured for flashing it with a cd-r!!Thats really sucks!

[handyguy]

what media kind? what format? -r or +r

what writing program? seems to be a lot of info not included with this OP.

[danne]

OK , i use philips dvd711 standalone, same prob with both +-r,use dvd decruptor and nero , also use dvd shrink some times ,