play resume feature won't work with my disk

[etrin]

I was taking some old mst3k episodes and converting them and putting them on dvd. Well the player I am using is a liteone 2001. I converted the files with winavi then made the disk with nero 7,I usually split the movie into 2 -3 sections. I have tried Verbatem, and tio disk dvd -r. When I put the disk in the player it works fine, menus are there and I play the movies. But when I hit stop it says can not resume play from current position.
I know that commercial disk do not have this problem. Is it nero, the disk or the player that is doing this?

thanks for any info I am confused if its a setting I am missing or whats up with this

ps the counter does display on the player and I thought this is what the player used to know where to resume so that is the first thing I looked at.

thaks again for any help

etrin

[etrin]

Ok lots of people have looked and no replys.

I will add this..

can you do continue/resume play after stop with ANY software?

thanks

Etrin

[Cornucopia]

The feature you're talking about, [RESUME PLAY] is one that is selected/adjusted by your authoring software. Some allow you to specify what that does, some set it automatically (usually what you were expecting), and some (yours?) may not set it at all. Don't know about Nero 7's DVD authoring capabilities, but to be honest (and NO OFFENSE), I would expect it to be a joke. Nero is great at burning, but not authoring.

There's lots of other DVD authoring softwares out there that can do quite alot more for little $: TDA and DVDLab come to mind quite easily. Try one of those...

HTH,

Scott

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edit: If you hit [STOP] once, the resume function will likely still be in effect. If you hit [STOP] twice, the player will really STOP, and any action after that is like you had just inserted the disc the 1st time (1st Play will engage, etc). How many times are you hitting it?

[mats.hogberg]

My guess is that it's WinAVI. What's your source material?

/Mats

[skeg64]

It sounds like a PUO has been set by the Nero software.

Resume play after stopping is not a feature of the DVD, but the player. However the disc can prohibit it with a PUO.

[Cornucopia]

yes, skeg64, that is officially a player feature, but the OP said that commercial discs playing on the same player didn't exhibit this problem. That would lead me to believe it wasn't the incapability of the player to support [Resume After Stop], but rather an authoring problem.
PUO's are a possibility. Boy, do those drive me crazy!

Scott

[etrin]

OK I got some answers from one of the people at work...IT WAS NOT PRETTY. Maybe you can clerify it.
He is a big movie maker dude.

He took the files that were made from win avi and used TMPGEnc DVD Author. Made a disk it would not stop/resume.
So he uses his TMPGEnc DVD encoder (don't remember the name) makes the files with 6 chapters on each movie and burns the disk. I put it in my player and yep it does the stop/resume. I was very impressed at first.
Then about 1/2 way thru the movie the video got WAY out of sinc. I would say 4 or 5 seconds out.
I called him to ask and he said oh I didn't do this and that and some of this and a little of that (not sure what he was talking about) I said huh LOL
WHAT THE HECK....how long does it take to make a movie that works.
oh usually no more than a couple of hours.

Is he an idiot or is the TMPGEnc programs this bad that it takes soooooo long to do anything and get it right.

I am not saying that the programs a junk but is what he said the truth and does the audio get this far out of sinc all the time ?

well I found out that the simple programs do not make the best movies but I was shocked that it was as big a deal as it was.

thanks again for your help and any additional info you can give me.

IS there a program better than winavi that will convert these files with multi chapters and do it correctly without loosing sinc?

Etrin

[mats.hogberg]

Again, what's your source material? Whateveritis, find "whateveritis to DVD" under convert left. I'm sure you'll find more guides to read and try than you're likely to ever need.

/Mats

[Cornucopia]

Winavi is decent as an all-in-one, one-click kind of application, but if you want it done right, you use a specific tool for a specific need. For encoding to MPEG, TMPGEnc is at or near the top quality-wise (though a little slower than others). But, the phrases "you-get-what-you-pay-for", "it's-all-about-the-skills" and "GIGO" may be applicable here (both in your case and your acquaintance's), so who's to say...

Most often cases of audio mis-sync are due to:
1. 24 vs. 23.976 pulldown issues
2. PAL / NTSC standards conversion issues
3. VBR source audio
4. DF / NDF timecode misjudgement
5. Recompression of (not-so-well) joined files
6. Recompression of ripped, compressed source files directly (without decompressing to WAV 1st)
7. Incompetence/Not understanding the correct procedures (sorry, sad but true)
8. Data corruption (specifically through downloads)

Rarely is the problem anything else.

IIWY, I'd go back to square one and use better tools, checking along the way.

Scott

[skeg64]

if the original disc works and it is in sync, then all you need to do is remove the PUO's.

This can be done by ripping the disc with DVD Decrypter in ISO mode, then burning it to a new disc.