What am i doing wrong

[Touch]

Hi, I have an avi video file on my hard drive that i converted to dvd files with dvdsanta. Anyway i burned the files with the latest version of nero express to a dvd-r but when i try and play it in a dvd player it plays 1/4 of it then returns to the mein menu and i have to select 2/4 of the video then3/4 and so on. Anyway i want it to play the whole dvd without having to keep selecting different parts of it to play. I know im doing something simple wrong but any help would be great. Cheers.

[jtoolman2000]

Does it play fine on the computer? Meaning, can you play the actual files Santa created before burning.
I asume your burned DVD contains only an AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS with the dvd files inside .vob .ifo and such?

[Touch]

Yeah it play fine from the hard drive but when i burn on to a disc it does the same thing in the computer as it does in my dvd player. Yeah im just burning the files dvdsanta created .vob ect

[guns1inger]

It sounds like DVD Santa has authored these as seperate titlesets, and not linked them together. Was this built from seperate files, or one file ?

[Touch]

It was built from one avi file

[stillmars321]

I would recommend processing the vob file DVDSanta spit out thru another authoring program such as TMPG DVDAuthor. You shouldn't have any probelms after that.

[SLK001]

It doesn't sound like you are doing anything wrong. If you encoded the single AVI file, and authored the single file, then DVDSANTA should have set it up to play as a single file.

Are the break points at "natural" breaks, or does it just end unnaturally?

I don't know of any authoring package that has the intelligence to actually set the breaks properly.

What settings did you use to encode the AVI?