Troubles playing home made DVD on Pioneer 533K

[danvan]

Hi there,

I have been having some problems watching some DVDs I have made, from captured DV footage, on my Pioneer 533K DVD player (region free, macrovision disabled).

To put this all in context, here's how I make the DVD: I have some footage on a Sony PC-105E DV camera, which I capture the PAL 4x3 footage via Adobe Premiere 6.5 and a generic Firewire card to AVI files on my PC (P3 550 Xeon, Windows 2000, 256Mb RAM), which I edit in Adobe Premiere 6.5 and export using the Adobe MPEG2 Encoder option. This creates a M2V file and a WAV file, which I use TMPGEnc DVD author (latest version) to export to DVD format. I burn the DVD on an NEC NB-1300A burner on Princo 4x DVD-R discs at 2x (and have tried Sony DVD-RW and DVD+RW as well).

This is where the problems start. Using PowerDVD on the PC above, and my work laptop (P3 500-ish), the DVD plays fine. On a friend's high end Sony DVD player and my mother's very low end Digitor DVD player the DVD plays fine. On my Pioneer 533K the audio plays fine, but the video will lock up every so often - every 10 - 30 seconds maybe, for about a second or two - then will continue where it should be at.

I have tried this with several different lots of footage and several different Premiere projects. It seems the more I edit it in Premiere the worse it is, but I can't be sure on this.

I am only very new to this, so am not sure if there are better ways to do it. Also, I am not sure what most of the options in each of the programs are, so may need to tweak some settings. I just find it odd that it only seems to be a problem on my mid-range Pioneer that has never given me a minute's grief in the 2 years I've had it. Any assistance on refining this process, or any suggestions on what might be causing the video to lock up on the Pioneer, would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
DanVan

[troyvcd1]

I started reading this and as soon as I read Princo I stopped. Use some quality discs, retry and then see what happens.

[danvan]

I started reading this and as soon as I read Princo I stopped. Use some quality discs, retry and then see what happens.

Fair call, but I have also tried with Sony DVD-RW and DVD+RW. Besides, the Princos have worked just fine on my DVD player in the past.

[kyemeng]

Suggest experimenting with Rewriteable. Offhand, I could suggest you try not editing the imported avi but instead use another program such as Tmpgenc Plus to encode into elementary streams for Authoring in Tmpgenc. Perhaps you could also try just the authoring without audio and see if the problem persist. Another thing to try is perhaps using AC3 instead of wav file. I also notice that your capture is in PAL and as such, Premiere could be encoding to NTSC which could pose a problem as you described.
Incidentally, I have a Pioneer 535K and the disks which I authored played without any problems.