Pioneer Compatibility Hell

[TempleBar]

Please Help! I got the Pioneer burner and successfully burned disks that play well on the PC. But they wont play on my Sony DVD player. I went to the local stereo store and put the disks into every DVD player they had. The results were awful! Only two players out of twelve would accept the disk. NONE of the Sony models worked. In a strange twist, the disk played best on a $79 Apex piece of junk.

My question is What Am I Doing Wrong? I used the bundled authoring tool MyDVD to create an image folder, then used Nero to burn the disks, all without much problem. When the first disk didn't work on my player, I authored another disk using the Ulead demo. The results were identical.

What gives? I used the Pioneer DVD-R media that came with the drive for the first disk and some cheaper media I got for the second. If anyone has any insight to offer, or if you have ever burned a DVD with the Pioneer drive that played on a Sony player, please let me know!

[disturbed1]

Instead of Nero, why didn't you use the included DVD burning software.

Nero doesn't preform any checks on the VIDEO_TS, AUDIO_TS folders to make sure their in the right format.

Primo DVD does. All you have to do is drag 'n' drop both folders into Primo, and hit record.

I recently took two of my DVD-R's to Best Buy, they played correctly on 17 different DVD players (every one I tried). One was authored with DVD it! PE, burned with Primo on TDK media. The movie was capped at 7500kbit/s VBR, with 192kbit/s 2/0 ac3. The other was authored with Spruce Up, 4000kbit/s CBR 384kbit/s 5.1 ac3 also on TDK media. I doubt it's a media problem. The Pioneer media is(should be) better than TDK.

It depends on how old your DVD player is also. Every new player (manufactured 2nd half of 2001) should play a correctly authored and burnt DVD-R.

What firmware version is your AO3, current is 1.68.