Problem with TMPEnc DVD Author 3

[ebadillab]

Hello all, I hope someone can help me on this, I'm using TMPGEnc DVD Author 3 with DivX, and I manage to burn the 2 complete seasons of HBO's Rome on a single DVD (not that good quality, but I'm just testing, as you can see, I'm quite new on this), I made a quite nice menu and everything seemed to work fine, but when I tried to play the disc on my DVD player, it reads the menu fine, I can see the menu, but as soon as I select any chapter to play, it gets hung and do nothing, I have to unplug it and plug it back (power) to make it work... I don't know if it is that I'm missing a step, or that my DVD player does not work, but then, if it is my DVD player, how can it plays the menu? Any idea?

Thank you in advance

[hech54]

What brand of blank DVDs are you using?
What program did you use to burn the DVD?

[ebadillab]

What brand of blank DVDs are you using? --->MTP
What program did you use to burn the DVD?

--->The same that comes with TMPEnc DVD Author 3

[guns1inger]

Burn to quality media (Verbatim, TY) with Imgburn

[TimA-C]

What speed did you burn the disk? Lower is better. I never burn faster than 8x even if I'm using disks rated for 16x because I know that at least two DVD players in the house will struggle with disks burnt at 12x and probably fail with disks burnt at 16x. Also, did you generate a standard DVD or a DivX DVD with menu?

[ebadillab]

What speed did you burn the disk? Lower is better. I never burn faster than 8x even if I'm using disks rated for 16x because I know that at least two DVD players in the house will struggle with disks burnt at 12x and probably fail with disks burnt at 16x. Also, did you generate a standard DVD or a DivX DVD with menu?

Well, that might be, I burned at 16x (max speed), and I generate a DivX DVD with menu. I will try to burn it at a lower speed and see what happened.

[TimA-C]

I think I'm right in saying that you'll also need a DivX 6 compatible player to handle the menus correctly. I'm not sure that there are that many DivX 6 compatible players out there.

[jagabo]

You need a Divx Ultra certified player to play Divx with menus.

[TimA-C]

I stand corrected! Thanks Jagabo.

[ebadillab]

You need a Divx Ultra certified player to play Divx with menus.

I see, ok then, is there any other way that I can do something like what I was doing but that actually works on a regular DVD player? I was trying with VCD, but I can burn just on CDs, so, it does not work, and if I do it as a regular DVD, then it will take a lot of DVDs to finish it, and the idea is that I can have as many chapters on a single DVD as possible, like with DivX, that I was able to record 22 chapters on a single DVD... Any idea?

[jagabo]

If you just burn 22 AVI files onto a data disc most Divx/DVD players will give you a simple file listing to choose from.

VCD resolution (352x240 NTSC, 352x288 PAL) is valid for DVD. All 22 episodes on one DVD will look pretty bad.

[TimA-C]

As Jagabo said, just burn the .avi files to DVD and use the file list displayed by your DivX DVD player. Don't forget to treat the .avi files as normal data files when you burn them. You're not creating a video disk any more, just a data disk with data files on it that just happen to be DivX or XVid video files. I've never tried authoring a normal DivX disk with TMPGenc so good luck!