Burner, Software or Player? DVD Menu problems

[tedvz]

Burner in use: TDK indiDVD 440N
Player: Philips 724
Software: DVD Shrink 2.3; DVDFab; Roxio DVD Builder

Main Issue: Using DVD Shrink or DVDFab, when I play the DVD in my player the menu's are all messed up and I can't view the movie. It's like the player is playing random little clips throughout the DVD - like the index of "what is where" is all messed up.

To give a bit of context, and assure you things aren't hosed all over... I can successfully burn and play basic DVD's. I've taken DVD rips and burned the main movie to DVD and played them. I've used tools like Roxio's DVD Builder and made DVD's WITH MENUS of some of my own video clips, burned them, and watched them on my player. So, the basic stuff is all working fine as expected.

However, if I try to use DVD Shrink to compress a movie down and fit it on DVD, or if I use DVD Fab to split a movie across two DVD's, the result wth the original menu's intact, I'm not able to play on my player. The DVD seems fine to me - if I launch Windows Media Player, and have it play the DVD, the intro, menu's, etc. all seem to work fine. But, if I put the player in my Philips 724, things are horked up. Various clips play out of sequence, can't get to the menu, can't reliably flip through the chapters....weird stuff. Haven't heard of anyone with the 724 having these problems.

One more thing to note - I've been doing this on both DVD-RW and DVD+RW. Having had this weird behavior, I've been hesitant to burn a real DVD-R or +R to see if my player likes that better. It's worth noting though, that I've managed to play other things with these very same -RW and +RW disks on this player.

Help - anyone seen this before or have any ideas or suggestions?

[tedvz]

OK - solved my own problem. For whatever reason, I was burning the DVD in UDF mode. Worked fine on the PC's, but not my player. Once I changed the burner settings to be ISO then things worked fine.

If anyone else has a similiar problem with menus in the future, you may wish to check this setting and see how you're burning your DVD.

[Vejita-sama]

Nero huh? (ok I'm bias here). But just in case Nero is the problem I wold try either IMGtools & DVD Decrytpter (freeware) to burn, or Record Now Max (commerical).