Hello,

I have made a DVD using Nero Vision Express 3.

What I have -
PM4 notebook - 1.6 GHz, 1GB RAM, 60GB free HD space, DVD +-DL Writer.
Sony PC330 MiniDV camcorder

What I used -
Windv - to transfer the content of tape (had few dropped frames but no issues) Also I got multiple (23) AVI files, not sure why

Nero Vision Express 3.0 - I used this to edit and burn the DVD. Used most of the default settings for best video. Choose the settings for PAL system. (I live in India). I merged couple of AVI files while editing created multiple chapters, menus etc. Everything was easy since I didn't do much editing as such. Before starting it gave a warning that bit rate has to be reduced to 5K or so to fit into 4.7GB DVD. I said OK. (Encoding mode 2-Pass VBR).

It took close to two hours to render and burn the disk. No errors while writing the disk. (I used DVD-R disk)

DVD plays fine on my laptop (WinDVD, Nero's show time, Media player)

I have a philips DVD (-) player at home. When I put this disk on the player it takes long time to read and finally says it's a MP3-JPG and doesn't do anything. Sometimes it doesn't even recognize the disk says no disk. My player is quite rugged and plays almost any disk with scratches. I don't think it is the bad media. I haven't tried checking the disk on any other player yet.

Any pointers to where I have gone wrong? Please help. Would appreciate any help before I start burning more disk and time on this

Thanks,