Trouble playing burned DVDs on my stand alone

[collin_stevens]

Hey all,

I have been using Toast 6 for about a year for burning avi files with no trouble at all playing the finished movies on my stand alone DVD player. I should also point out that I usually converted those files within iDVD then burned them with Toast. Recently I switched to Toast 8 and the new iDVD that comes with iLife08. Since then I've been having some trouble with the DVDs I've burned. All of them play fine on my comp but about 50% fail to play in my stand alone. I get a message that says "Disc Error" and then it spits the DVD out.

This is the process I use to burn.
I convert the movie in iDVD and save them as disc images. Then I either burn through Toast with one of two options. Either as Image file under the Disc copy option. Or I mount the image and use Disc Copy again and read from the 'Pseudo' disc mounted on my desktop. I've found if I slow the burn process down to 4x as opposed to the 8x that I used to do it at, more come through working fine. But it hasn't solved the problem all together. I also have used some pre-made DVD IMG's or ISO's (only of movies I already own) and those in particular give me fits. I've only

[terryj]

what brand of media are you burning on on your Mac?
what happens if you simply format the Project in iDVD
to a Video_TS folder, and then using Toast 8, you
drag and drop that Video_TS folder into the Data tab-->DVDRom(UDF)
window and burn that?

Lastly, what model of standalone DVD Player are you using?
Have you checked the "DVD Players" link on the left to
compare your model with reports of what others
have experienced?

[tomlee59]

Assuming that your data about burn-speed sensitivity is correct, then it looks like media quality is the culprit. No matter what speed you burn at, the computer writes the same data. If the result provokes different behaviors, then it means that the same data isn't being read. That points to a media problem (or a sign that your burner has issues).