DVD-R's Will not play on Phillips DVD 711

[JCO]

I have a Phillips DVD 711 player and am burning DVD-R's on a Pioneer dvr-104 with DVD Movie factory. I cannot get the DVD's to play on my player. I have read in this forum that the disc needs to have at least 4gb on it to play in this player. If I fill the disc up to that point I can sometimes get one of the chapters to play but most of the time I just get the menu screen and when I select a chapter it shows on the display of the player but it does not play. I have used both Memorex and Verbatim DVD-Rs. Any suggestions?
(Also, I have read you can add a file to the DVD called pad.dat to bring it up to 4gb. Any help on how to do this would be appreciated.)

[RoopeT]

I haven't noticed any playback problems with DVD-R on my Philips 622, and I think most Philips players have similar playback capabilities. Maybe updating the player firmware would help? http://philips.ianc.net/downloads.shtml

[JCO]

I have updated the firmware to the latest version I could find.

[bengbrewer]

I tried updating the firmware with 7.22 and 8.0 and it gives me DLA ERROR or somethin. I wrote it using Nero Mode 2 and I did disc at once and closed the session. Am i doing something wrong?

[solarfox]

I also have a Philips 711 DVD player and, sadly, have never been able to get it to play DVD-R's, even with the latest firmware upgrades and >4Gb of data on the discs...

Not that that helps, but at least you know you're not alone.