authoring DVD won't play on standalone DVD

[oic]

Hello,
I started authoring my own DVDs and playing them in stand-alone DVD players.
I have Panasoinc s35. Any DVD-R disc I try to make won't play there, the DVD player will just freeze. I tryed then to author DVD+R then I Tryed my DVDs on other DVD players like SONY DVP-NS 330 and Irradio MPEG 4 player. I also changed DVD media I tryed Verbatim, Imation etc etc..
noone of them works on any type of standalone DVD player.
SONY should be good, it claims to play DVD+-R and DVD +-RW but my DVDs won't work there. The only DVD which works are UDF/ISO DVDs with DivX and XviD files, and Irradio player can read them well.
So I Ask here I must do something wrong when I author my DVDs but I guess what I can make wrong ? My DVDs runs perfectly on Any DVD reader on any PC using WinDVD or PowerDVD, they just can't run on standalone DVD player.
Could anyone give me some hints please?
Here is the method I use: virtualdub to extract the audio track from DivX avi files, then I use TMPGEnc to convert to MPEG format.
Then I use Ifoedit to author the DVD.
To burn it I use ImgTool Classic + DVDDecrypter otherwise I just create a UDF/ISO 1.02 udf type with Nero adding VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS directories.
In either way the DVD which results can play in DVD reader of PCs but it can't work on any DVD standalone.
I am really clueless and I really ask for help and hints, how can I make my DVD run on standalone player like Panasoinc s35.
My DVD recorder is NEC 1300A.
Since my DVDs won;t play on standaloen DVD player could it be a problem of my NEC 1300A being not region free ??

thanks a lot

oic

[mkelley]

A couple of things:

You can't create a regional disk yourself, so don't worry about that possibility.

PC players will play all kinds of things standalones won't -- it's not much of a test of whether a DVD is playable if it plays on the PC.

If I were you, I'd make sure I was using the very latest version of Nero (check their website). Then instead of an ISO I'd use Nero Express to create a playable DVD with just the two relevent folders.

My hunch is however you're using Nero it isn't creating a DVD compliant DVD (a DVD to be played on a standalone has to be formatted differently than a data DVD that can be used on a computer). I use Record Now so I can't help you much with Nero, but I'm sure the experts here can solve any Nero specific questions you have after you go in this direction.

[Laddydaddy]

oic
When burning in nero use the ollowing settings;
1)DVD-ROM(UDF/ISO)
2)No Multisession
3)ISO settings ISO level 1,ISO 9660 (Joliet is disabled)
All ISO restrictions Disabled(Allow path depths etc OFF)
Also, make sure your AUDIO_TS folder is empty, and use the proper DVD template in TMPG for your region. For example if you are in North America use the NTSC template. If you don't change the settings for resolution, audio sampling frequency, and framerate, TMPG will create a DVD compliant file for you. Using the settings I described above and choosing physical partition/1.02 in Nero should give you a proper DVD.

[oic]

It must be a TMPGenc issue then I'll have to check it again, anyway I used PAL settings since I Am located in Italy

thanks

Rick