New to DVD burning - having some problems

[SCB]

I haven't posted on here in a long time. I used to be fairly active years back when I was really into making (x)(s)VCDs, CVDs, etc (I still love ffmpegX). Anyway, I'm finally stepping into the DVD burning game. I bought a Pioneer (OEM Superdrive) for my venerable MDD G4. I took a movie from FCE, loaded it into iDVD, and everything worked great. The burned DVD plays fine, even in my old RCA DVD player that refuses most types of burned media. So yeah, that worked out great. Then I tried backing up a movie. I ripped it to my HD with DVD backup. I didn't have to run DVD2One or anything like that because the whole DVD was well under 3GB. To burn it to DVDr, I used YuBurner (freeware). In YuBurner, you can name the DVD title and select which format it should be. For the format I chose "UDF 1.0.2 (DVD-VIDEO)". For the files I just dragged and drop the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders. Everything went well and the disc was verified and ejected. I popped it right back in to my Mac and sure enough, DVD player launched and played it without a hitch. I took it to play on my old player and it seemed to read it okay, but then it got stuck on the second "Warning" screen and wouldn't do anything after that. Any ideas why this would be? To me, it seems like the problem lies in the way I burnt it, considering that the iDVD burned disc played fine. I haven't gotten to test the DVD on any other stand alone players, but I did test it on another Mac as well as a PC and they both played it flawlessly. I'd like to burn it with Toast, but I only have version 5 which, to my knowledge, does not support DVD burning. Anyway, any suggestions/tips would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[SCB]

Hmm, well, I used DTOX and the burned DVD plays perfectly. The quality looks great, but isn't DTOX unnecessarily compressing it? - VIDEO_TS is 2.1gb while the DVD image from DTOX is 1.98gb.

[thoughton]

As far as I recall DTOX by default removes some languegs or subtitles. That might account for the slight shrinkage.

[lawnman]

To copy your DVDs I would get MTR to rip, DVD2oneX 2.x to fix mastering errors and to compress to SL or fix mastering errors and burn to a DL. DVD2oneX 2.x can burn if you didn't know that.

DONATE to get the latest beta version of MTR so you can rip the newer Sony, Disney,etc DVDs.