Burning Program Can Make a Difference on DVD-R Playback

[wulf109]

I have an older Toshiba SD1009 DVD player that would not play the DVD-R's I burned. The other day I tried a DVD-R in it and to my surprise it played. After some searching I discovered that the DVD-R was burned with CloneDVD. After more checking it became apparent that any DVD-R burned with CloneDVD or Nero 6 would play. What would not play was burned with Nero5.5 in UDF/ISO mode. My question is what's different about UDF/ISO mode in Nero 5.5 and DVDvideo mode in Nero 6 or CloneDVD??

[Thorn]

The difference is that your dvd player isn't compatible with the format you were burning before. They should all burn the same thing, but if you noticed in nero 5.5.x you could select the udf version. The oldest one (1.02) has the best compatibility from what I've heard, yet nero defaulted to the newest (which many dvd players don't support).

I assume Nero simply changed the defaults in v6 so that it works without changing the settings. That doesn't mean that 5.5 couldn't burn discs that you could read, it simply means they took a long time to change the defaults (maybe they wanted to sell the new version). It could be more than that, but there has been way too much debate on this and who wants to waste 20 discs to figure out which method has the best compatibility with all dvd players?

FYI nero 5.5.x burns discs in video mode that I can read on my Pioneer, so it's hard to tell what would or wouldn't work in other players. No one has told me they couldn't read my discs, though.

[CHAOS]

yeah, my buddie has an old toshiba dvd player (quite a few years old) and even all the comments listed in the dvd player compatibility list said it would not play dvdr's, using nero 6. we have played + & - media with no problems.

And as far as the pioneer goes, other than not playing pal dvd's, i own 3, 2 from before dvdr's were even a thought to the mainstream and those damn thing's play anything burned with anything that i have thrown into them!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wulf109]

I checked the disks with DVDinfo and it reports all disks are UDF 1.02 including those burned with Nero 5.5,the UDF type is not the problem.
The only difference I can see is that the disks burned with Nero 5.5 report as having no volume label.

[Thorn]

Hmm... there may be other DVD issues that Ahead didn't understand when they made nero 5.5.x. I guess they blundered their way into DVD burning but I'm glad they seem to have solved their problems with 6. Not that I'll be upgrading anytime soon, since none of the new features are useful to me...

Hopefully you now have v6 to use (and it wasn't just a demo you were trying) because the last time this issue came up the response was "nero sucks use xxx". I don't know if any definitive answer will ever exist since so many miracle fixes were posted but none of them worked for everyone.

[FulciLives]

The very first few DVD-R discs I ever burned were done on a PIONEER A04/104 using MAXELL media I bought at BEST BUY.

I encoded with TMPGEnc and used SpruceUP for authoring.

Burned with NERO

They wouldn't work in all of the DVD players I tried (various models and makes).

Then I burned the same thing again using ImgTool (classic version) and DVD Decrypter.

No problems since

- John "FulciLives" Coleman