Avi/Divx to DVD difficulties!

[chrisms]

Hi,

I've downloaded a Avi/Divx movie.
I've used "VSO DivXToDVD" to convert this movie and I've burnt it on a DVD+RW (with VSO DivXToDVD, CloneDVD2, Nero).

The DVD functions correctly on my computer BUT not with my TV DVD Player... Why?
Could you help me?

This original Avi/Divx movie is from a Region Code 2.
Me, I live in Canada, and I use a Region Code 1 DVD.
There is AnyDVD (last version) on my computer, thus when I convert and I burn the DVD, is become a Free Region DVD!

My DVD Player is a Daytek P871

Thanks for your help
Christopher

[Baldrick]

did you select ntsc in divxtodvd? your tv may not support pal.

home burned dvds are region free.

[guns1inger]

Do you get some sort of error message from the player ?

[spectroelectro]

It's possible your standalone DVD player doesn't suport DVD+R, or it might not like recordable DVDs in general. Or sometimes standalone DVD players are just very picky about which DVDs they'll play.

If your standalone DVD player plays other recordable DVD discs you've authored, then that's not the problem. If your DVD player can play +R media, then that's not the problem. That leaves some glitch in the structure of the DVD produced by VSO as the potential problem.

The most compatibel authoring app I know of is RecordNow. You can buy a downloadable version of RecordNow for < $30. Great deal, excellent software. If you can verify that the problem is indeed the DVD created by VSO (verify this by checking to see if your DVD plays on other folks' DVD players; you might try hopping in your car and heading down to Fry's or Wal Mart and popping you DVD+R into a bunch of DVD players on display to see if they play it. If none do, then it's probably the output of VSO.)

The good news is that you're close to the right DVD format if the computer will play. Computer software DVD players are typically more forgiving of quirks and glitches in not-completely-standard DVD formats, so a DVD will often play on your computer when it own't on a standalone DVD player.

In that case, the solution's simple. Rip the DVD to VOBs, re-author it with any decent DVD authoring app, then fire up RecordNow and re-burn it. RecordNow produces 100% compatible DVDs and I've never had anyone with any DVD player unabel to play a DVD I burned with RecordNow. The issue might be that most DVD players require UDF version 1.0.2 whereas some software burns DVDs with UDF version 1.5 or 2.0 or something else, and that's not 100% supported by standalone DVD players. RecordNow automatically bnurns DVDs in UDF 1.0.2 format.

I've occasionally gotten DVD-Rs from other folks that play fine on my computer but won't play at all on my DVD player. I do what I described above: rip the VOBS, re-author 'em, burn with RecordNow. It always fixes the problem, unless the data on the disc is corrupted. If that were the case you'd be getting an error message on your DVD player and your DVD probably wouldn't play properly on your computer, so that's probably not the problem.

[zworg2]

It's possible your standalone DVD player doesn't suport DVD+R, or it might not like recordable DVDs in general. Or sometimes standalone DVD players are just very picky about which DVDs they'll play.

If your standalone DVD player plays other recordable DVD discs you've authored, then that's not the problem. If your DVD player can play +R media, then that's not the problem. That leaves some glitch in the structure of the DVD produced by VSO as the potential problem.

Further to that......some players are even MORE picky about RW discs (which the OP said he is using)

I never managed to get my Verbatim +RW to play on my standalone. It would play on my PS2 and never any problems on any PC drive, but NEVER on my standalone.

If you are willing to burn the DVD to a standard +R (not the +RW) and see if that works.

[SSJ4Thiran]

one final thing is to make sure that your dvd is not a data dvd... when you burn check that you're burning a dvd video disc...
Thats the only thing i can think of