dvd compatibility

[leg007]

I am new at this stuff and need some ideas. I have used a basic SONIC program that came with my system for about 6 months to convert my home DV to DVD’s. It works great and works on my home DVD player but I wanted to get more into editing thus I acquired Pinnacle Studio 9. The Studio 9 seems to work BUT it will only play on select DVD players (and not on mine). I went to Best Buy and the S9 Verbatim –R disk I made would only play on about half the players they had, my SONIC disk would play on all of them. I called Pinnacle (what a waste of time) and have done all their suggestions. Is the problem Pinnacle, my computer, OR IS IT ME? If I spend more money should it be on a new burner? Different program? New hobby? My system has 512 ram, 2800 AMD processor and a HI-VAL +-DVDRW.

Russ

[Forum Troll]

Most likely it's a media compatibility issue or the way the DVD is burned, ISO or UDF (or whatever the file structure is called on a DVD).

[sacajaweeda]

Sonic used to have a PCM audio fetish that while extremely compromising on the bitrate and ultimately sacrificing video quality, it makes DVDs very compatible with just about all players. Maybe that's why your Sonic discs work in more players. What type of audio are your DVDs being produced with in both applications? PCM, AC3, or MPEG? I'll assume you're in NTSC land and take a wild stab that your Sonic DVDs have PCM audio and your Pinnacle9 DVDs are either AC3 or MPEG. They should be AC3 though to be DVD Legal for NTSC. You might need an AC3 plugin for your PS9 if you've got MPEG audio.

This is all just a wild ******* guess though, as I no longer use either app.