standalone dvd player won't read data DVDs

[apesgrapes]

just got it today, will happily play DivX from CD, but any data DVDs just come up as 'no disc'.

is it possible to soemhow 'fake' the DVD header or whatever so the machine think's its a CD rather than DVD?

thanks for any help/advice.

[Krispy Kritter]

Are you closing the session? Have you tried a different brand/type of disc?

[apesgrapes]

cheers for the quick reply.

yes, definitely finalised - i'll have to beg/borrow another brand to try; but you have given me hope - i kind of expected to be told "don't be daft, will never work".

[ROF]

Let me see:

*digs out crystal ball*

Waves hands over shiny glass . . .

Because you are using a top of line xxxx player with some of the most expensive . . . I can't tell if it's DVD+r or DVD-r's. Sorry the crystal ball is cloudy today. In any case they are good quality made yyyy branded media and I also see you have updated your firmware to 1.0 . . . is that 1.08 or 1.09 again I can't tell.

*Shakes Crystal Ball*

Darn thing was working good yesterday.

There simply is not enough information to make an informed decision what might be causing your problems.

[apesgrapes]

There simply is not enough information to make an informed decision what might be causing your problems.

yeah, fair enough although the query was intended to be non specific - "can i trick the player..." type of thing. the fact that you haven't just discounted this, i.e. it's possible, is good news anyway.

player - tevion TDVDX3801
media - tevion dvd +r
firmware - unknown, player just become available and not yet shown on the manufacturers site www.akura.com.

[ROF]

You may want to try -r media. Sometimes players can be picky depending on disc format.(Divx, DVD, etc.) Usually when it comes to DivX it will play the files from DVD media but not CD so at least in that respect you got lucky.

[apesgrapes]

just tried a couple of -r discs (datawrite & Mr Dvd, same 'no disc' message. happily plays DivX from a SD card though.

[jman98]

Since nobody answered your original question, no you can't fake a DVD to look a CD.

Have you considered the possibility that the "geniuses" who wrote the firmware for your player may not have considered the possibility that someone might want to play a DVD data disc? If so, it will never work without a firmware change.

From your not very informative posts, it appears that you are using really cheap DVD media, which might be part of your problem. I've never heard of this brand of DVD player and maybe it's just crap. What did it cost? 30 pounds or less? You get what you pay for.

[apesgrapes]

ok, enough with the digs about the lack of info; it wasn't needed for (or relevant to) the faking a cd question - but i suppose i am here asking for help so happy to go through the motions if thats what it takes.

yup maybe it's the firmware - the manual says that it will need to be kept upto date to fully exploit mpeg4. i'll be ringing them tomorrow.

and yeah, maybe it's crap, but have been using the media for a while & has been 100% reliable.

[ROF]

and yeah, maybe it's crap, but have been using the media for a while & has been 100% reliable.

So it worked and now it doesn't? Sounds like a dying DVD player. Fortunately, DVD is being supplanted by HD so recorders are now the price of what players were six months to a year ago.

[apesgrapes]

no sorry - its the media which has been fine for dvd video. it's just now that i'm attempting it for dvd data on this player. it stated as being compatible with DVD-video, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, Mini DVD, SVCD, VCD etc etc so I'll ring them tomorrow - might be just firmware needed - if not i'll just take it back.

[apesgrapes]

ok, sorted.

rang the customer support - they said it's probably a 'machine error' and to just get it exchanged. got an exchange and it now works fine, recognises all the discs i tried yesterday, and happy with divx, xvid etc.