will this dvd play correctly?

[scaronelly]

i just authored a dvd of various films i put together - i wanted everything to fit onto one dvd, but the video quality to be high, so i encoded all my audio files to mpeg 2. after i authored it in dvdmaestro, i got warnings saying about a buffer underflow because my bitrates were too high at some points - although when i encoded i set maximum bitrate 9000. will the dvd play fine in dvd players if there are no pcm or ac3 audio files (only mpeg 2 audio) and possibly exceedingly high bitrates in some areas. my blank dvd's dont come in for a week and a half so i can't test it yet. thanks a lot.

[unloopme]

Get yourself a copy of PowerDVD and test it. I always test everything before I burn, and PowerDVD is the best tool out there.

http://www.gocyberlink.com/english/products/product_main.jsp?ProdId=28

[scaronelly]

yea, i already have PowerDVD and tested it - im sorry - i should have mentioned that - and it did work perfectly fine with powerdvd, but i know the pc can handle a lot more than standalone dvd players can, which is why i am worried

[i_am_dave]

I always burn to a DVD +RW first. That way, I haven't made a $2 coaster if something goes wrong. I have had compilations that worked fine with PowerDVD, but drove my Apex-500W nuts!

[scaronelly]

hey dave, i also tried what you suggest - i have the sony dpw47 dvd+rw media that came with my drive - unfortunatley it will only burn at 2.4x - i tried it but it resulted in driving both my dvd players crazy - i have never had a successful burn higher than 1x, so im hoping that it was the media