DVD Player Authoring Issue

[Taise]

After I recently had to reinstall my system, a hard drive died, I am unable to get a AVI to convert to DVD and have it play on my PS2 or standard DVD player, but my PC has no problem playing it like it's a normal movie DVD. Before the crash it worked fine and since the reinstall I've installed I've tried AVI to DVD, DVD Santa and TMPEG.

My system is a p4 2.8, 512 ram, onboard sounds, ATI Radeon 9200SE w/ 256meg and I'm burning using a Pioneer DVR-106 4x burner.

[Shadowmistress]

Have you reinstalled all your codecs and directshow?

What are you using to author?

[Megahurts]

Sounds like the disk was not finalized.

[nzjacob]

I used to get this problem on my Pioneer A05 Burner. It turned out to be a UDF file setting in Nero causing my problem.

What do you use to burn ?
Nero, DVD DEcrypter ?
Media Type ?

If you have no joy there, my mate had this problem when he switched from using an 80 pin IDE cable to a 40pin . . but I dont know if that will have much relevance.

[Taise]

I've removed and reinstalled all the codex twice and used both Nero and DVDSanta to burn the disks. I've tried Sony, Memorex and CompUSA store brand disks (they worked before) in x4 and x8. I'm burning using a Pioneer DVR-106 4x burner.

[Shadowmistress]

Well, what step exactly is failing here? The converting, the authoring or the burning? You don't go into much detail there.

Can you convert the avi with tmpgenc?

Can you author it using any authoring application? (Try one of the 30 day free trials.)

Can you play the video_ts folder on your comp? (Try Powerdvd or Windvd.)

Can you burn anything else onto your media such as data disks?

[Taise]

Well, what step exactly is failing here? The converting, the authoring or the burning? You don't go into much detail there.

Can you convert the avi with tmpgenc?

Can you author it using any authoring application? (Try one of the 30 day free trials.)

Can you play the video_ts folder on your comp? (Try Powerdvd or Windvd.)

Can you burn anything else onto your media such as data disks?

TMPG seems to convert fine, so does DVD Santa. They are both licensed products. I can burn data DVD fine and the moves play fine on my machine with PowerDVD. It's just that they won't play on a TV or PS2. I get a bad disk error.

[Shadowmistress]

So Powerdvd is playing the files without glitches huh?
And you've tried all those differnt media?
And your data disks, they play fine as well? Can you still use rewritables without incident?

At this point, I'd agree with nzjacob that's it's a UDF setting. Try Nero's help site or google UDF. I'm sure others have had this problem as well.


EDIT: "Pioneer DVR-106 4x burner"
Oh, wait. I missed this before. You're using a 4x on disks that are what speed?

[Taise]

EDIT: "Pioneer DVR-106 4x burner"
Oh, wait. I missed this before. You're using a 4x on disks that are what speed?

I've used both x4 and x8 DVD-R disks.