burned dvd plays in standalone but not in computer

[completelywound]

I've got WINDVD, works fine with burned sony +rw media(came with drx-500ulx) and any other Blockbuster dvd...the sony media wouldn't play in a couple standalones.

This was burned on apple -R and riteck -R, both work on standalones..
Looking to buy riteck or verbatim -R in bulk--
Is this a 'region free' question?

Needless to say, I was stoked to have it work in standalones, but it seems wacked to not have it recognized in my computer.

It wouldn't play back in my sony vaio, nor the drx-500ulx.

Please advise!

Dan

[FulciLives]

Hello

Maybe I am just having a moment as they say but ... I can't understand just WHAT it is you are trying to say or ask!

Could you be more clear? I doubt that I'm the only person baffled by your post above.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[completelywound]

I've edited video with Premier 6.5, encoded it (with 6.5 mpeg encoder)
authored and burned it with dvdit on both ritech & apple -R.
The dvd's play on standalones, but not my computer.
does that make sense?

[FulciLives]

I've edited video with Premier 6.5, encoded it (with 6.5 mpeg encoder)
authored and burned it with dvdit on both ritech & apple -R.
The dvd's play on standalones, but not my computer.
does that make sense?

Hmm that's CRAZY !!!
I've never heard of anyone burning a DVD that would work in a stand alone DVD player BUT NOT on a computer (especially on the same computer using the same burner that made it). Usually the problem is the OTHERWAY around.

I don't know what to tell you!

What happens when you try to use it in the computer? Does the DVD drive have trouble reading the disc? If you get past that but then are having playback problems what kind of playback problems? What error messages are you getting, etc?

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[completelywound]

i guess not.

i burned video from dvdit to a sony +RW, THAT played on my computer, but not on a stand alone.


then i tried burning on an apple -R. that played on several standalones, but not on my computer. and this same thing happened with a riteck -R.

i'm guessing something in the aurthoring software?

sorry i jump around a lot...

Dan

[completelywound]

absolutely no response from my computer, the drive blinks, that's it.
usually windvd pops up immediately and it plays..

[completelywound]

oh man.....

[FulciLives]

absolutely no response from my computer, the drive blinks, that's it.
usually windvd pops up immediately and it plays..

Well is the DVD-R discs in question actually being read by the computer? For instance can you view the contents of the disc using MY COMPUTER or is it that the DVD drive is having trouble reading the disc(s)?

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[hunghuynh]

Are you can see the recording disk using Windows Explorer? If not, sometimes after recording I have to start the computer again then the disc will be read by Windows Explorer. Good luck.

[txpharoah]

It is most likely UDF-only mode. You PC/Mac cannot see UDF file formats. Open the DVD player software FIRST, then put in the disc into the drive. If you have autorun enabled to launch DVD player upon DVD-ROM disc insertion, it should play just fine.

[completelywound]

-had to go away this weekend...

When I put the disc in the drive in my laptop, you can hear it start to read it, then stop, then start to read it again, then stop, over and over again. It's stuck in that mode. I tried putting it in before, and after opening windvd. Same thing happens. And I can't eject it through windows, or windvd, just manually.

I've tried to read the contents through windows explorer, it intermittently freezes, then asks me to 'please insert a disc into drive E'.
So that drive doesn't read it at all.

When I insert it into the external sony, windvd DOES pop up. I hear the drive start to whirl for a second, then just stop. Same thing as the other drive (except windvd opens)
However, when I open it through windows it does read the contents-- AUDIO TS and VIDEO TS. When I go into the folders, VIDEO TS is all there, but AUDIO TS is completely empty.
Yet, it plays on standalones fine.
Why would the audio file appear empty?
I would like to be able to test a dvd right from my computer...
I have absolutely no clue what to try!
It's got to be either something in the Adobe mpeg encoder, or a setting in DVDit?

[completelywound]

What is UDF-only mode?

[EricB]

Its funny because I had this happen with an SVCD. I believe I authored it with Studio8. It would play on a standalone, but neither WinDVD or PowerDVD would play the disk. Obviously it is normally the other way around. I never figured out what was wrong as I rarely use Studio8.

[FulciLives]

Hello

Well the kind of errors you are getting seem to be mostly related to the media. Some types of DVD recordable discs are not as well made as other types which can cause compatability problems. Meaning it might work in one DVD-ROM drive or DVD player but not another.

What type of media are you using?
As in brand, type, format etc?

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[completelywound]

The first one I tried was the one that came with the sony drive. A sony +RW. That one played in the computer, but didn't play on a couple standalones.

So, I tried burning on a 2x Apple -R, and a 4x Riteck -R.
Both of those had the same results, plays on standalones, not the computer.
(And they were both recognized as having an empty AUDIO_TS folder through windows explorer)

[ktnwin]

Hi,
I have a similar issue (but not quite identical). I burned DVD using the Pioneer 105, and the discs play in many stand alone DVD players. They can be played by the Pioneer 105 too (of course everyone expects this).
I can rip my burned disc using DVDShrink and the 105 but if I sticked the DVD disc in the other DVD-ROM then it plays with PowerDVD but cannot be ripped. This problem does not happen with commercial DVDs.

[completelywound]

hmmmm...
yeah, I'm still trying here.

[theelenore]

I have just got the same error, i have burned about 4 disc in the last week and could not read them on either drive of my computer that made the disc. My standalone dvd players in the house could read them fine. I have used 3 different software packages and got the same result. Nero's site gave the following post, which i am going to try tonight when i get off work. See if you have any luck with this.

Under Windows XP, any CD's I create using Mastering software such as Nero, are not readable on any system. Not even the one that created it.

This is a known problem with XP that Microsoft is aware of, and the below link will resolve the issue.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q320174

[munchkins]

Hi there, I'm also encountering the same problem. Burned with my Ricoh MP5125A (last 1.64 firmware) on a blank CMC DVD+R with latest Nero 5 patch, able to play on my standalone Pioneer DVD player, but the same Ricoh MP5125A is not able to read the disc.

Tried with another brand of blank DVD+R and it works fine. I think it has something to do with the media.

I've tried installing the patch that theelenore mentioned, but since my WinXP is on SP1, it does not allow me to do so.

Go for another brand instead. If your current brand worked fine previously, it must be this batch of DVDs that's having the problems. I'm never going to go back to CMC, it sucks ! ! !

[completelywound]

i'm using DVDit as the authorer. it has an option to install a player on the dvd being burned (WinDVD). since i've been doing that, it plays in my burner fine. well, not fine-- i can't open another player first, it'll get mad and stop talking to me.
if i let it do it's thing, it works fine. BUT, i never did get it to play in my actual computer. just in the burner.

i have windows ME too. can't do that update.
so it might be the media huh?