Disc error when trying to play a title

[bobolito]

I am using DVD Architect 3.0 to author a home made video DVD of a cruise ship vacation. The DVD consists of a main movie, a submenu for features and another submenu for chapters. Basically, the structure is like this:

Main menu
-Play
-Features Menu
----Deleted scenes
--------Play All
--------Deleted Scene 1
--------Deleted Scene 2
--------Deleted Scene 3
--------Deleted Scene 4
--------Deleted Scene x
----Cruise ship tour
----Cruise Map
-Chapters Menu
----Chapters 1-7
----Chapters 8-14
----Chapters 15-21
----Chapters 22-28

Therefore, the main menu has 3 items (Play, Features, Chapters). The Features submenu has 3 items (Deleted scenes, Cruise ship tour, Cruise map). The Chapters submenu has links to the respective chapters and a link to the next and previous pages. There are 4 chapter pages with 7 chapters each. The Deleted scenes has a link to Play All and to each individual deleted scene. There are 11 deleted scenes in total. The "Cruise ship tour" and "Cruise Map" link directly to those titles.

During the authoring and burning process I get no errors or warnings. The DVD plays perfectly on the computer using PowerDVD 6. I can play all titles with no problem.

However, when playing the disc in my home DVD players I can only play the main movie (which is the "Play" link in the main menu). I can also navigate through all the menus and submenus without any problems, plus I can also pick a chapter from the chapters menu and play it just fine. However, when trying to play any titles in the Features submenu, (Deleted scenes, Cruise Ship Tour and Cruise Map) I get an error in my home player saying that it cannot play it due to a disc error. The player is a Sanyo DRW-1000. I also have a Sony DVD player hooked up to another TV set but that player freezes when trying to do the same. I can still navigate the Deleted scenes submenu, but when trying to play any of them, it will refuse. However, as I said before, when playing the same disc on the computer, I don't experience any problems.

The before authoring the Deleted Scenes title consists of one large MPEG2 file containing all scenes and all individual scenes are basically the same file with defined in/out points. The Cruise Tour and Cruise Map titles are separate MPEG2 files.

Prior to authoring, all files were encoded using Sony Vegas 6.0 using the same exact settings for all files (MPEG 2, 8mbps, 720x480). Even the menus were animated using MPEG2 files using the same exact settings as the main movie, deleted scenes, etc.

I have re-authored and burned the contents to different discs (different brands) and had the same exact results. I can't figure out why deleted scenes, cruise ship tour and cruise map do not play in the home DVD players but they play perfectly on the computer.

[bobolito]

Some developments:

I have started a new project from scratch just to experiment. Using a basic menu screen, I placed the three titles I am having trouble with and they still won't play. However, I experimented with another DVD player (a very old Sony model) and to my surprised the entire DVD played just fine with no problem whatsoever.

I am thinking of joining the entire movie (main movie + deleted scenes + tour + map) all in one large MPEG file so that there is only 1 title in the DVD, but placing different in/out points to separate the main movie from the features, deleted scenes, etc.

If anyone has any comments/suggestions, please post. Thanks!