Samsung Blue Ray Player skips/jumps into another movie

[Windsorpro]

Hello everyone: Can anyone help me understand this puzzling riddle?

I have Samsung Blue Ray player. On a DVD-DL I have jammed four .AVI movies and burned it via Toast as Mac/PC Data (not Movies). When I insert the DVD, the TV shows all of them. I choose the last one. In the middle of the movie, Samsung jumps into the second movie and starts playing it!!!

Any suggestions to what happened? and what can I do to solve this riddle?

Another thing that caught my attention, when I try to push the >> button or >>| button, a message comes up saying, "This feature is not available" !!!

But when I insert it into my iMac, with VLC I can move the time line with my mouse and fast forward the movie to my desired spot.

Any suggestions?

With much appreciation.

[Ai Haibara]

DVD and BD players tend to be far more strict about the videos they can play from a data disc/USB drive, than a computer. Usually, the videos have to fit a number of criteria, or the player may refuse to play the video (or even may not 'see' it among the files at all!).

Run the AVI that doesn't play correctly on the Blu-Ray player through VideoSpec or iMediaHUD, and post the information either of those provide about the video here; someone may be able to tell you what your player might not like about the AVI.

Also, what media (DVD-DL brand, etc.) are you using?

[Windsorpro]

thanx for the reply. I will check the VideoSpec (or iMediaHUD) and post the results. Meanwhile, I am using "Verbatim DVD+R DL"

[jman98]

Two possible guesses...

1) There is something wrong with the last video. For example, there may be a bad spot. I suggest you note the exact spot where this happens and take a look at the video under Toast at the exact spot and see if you see a horrible defect in the video at this spot, like massive pixelation. The fix for this would be to remove the offending section.
2) This really shouldn't happen with a modern BluRay player, but I can't say it's impossible. Some DVD players in the past were known to have problems with all consumer burned DL discs and they would stop playing when the layer break was encountered. I suppose there is some chance that you are hitting the layer break at this point and that's causing the player to stop. We'd need to know the approximate file sizes to make a guess as to whether this is the issue or not, so if you want, go ahead and post those.

[Windsorpro]

DVD and BD players tend to be far more strict about the videos they can play from a data disc/USB drive, than a computer. Usually, the videos have to fit a number of criteria, or the player may refuse to play the video (or even may not 'see' it among the files at all!).

Run the AVI that doesn't play correctly on the Blu-Ray player through VideoSpec or iMediaHUD, and post the information either of those provide about the video here; someone may be able to tell you what your player might not like about the AVI.

Also, what media (DVD-DL brand, etc.) are you using?

Here is the result that was generated after using iMediaHUD


General
Complete name : /Volumes/My Disc/What Dreams May Come [1998].avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
Format profile : OpenDML
File size : 3.39 GiB
Duration : 1h 53mn
Overall bit rate : 4 264 Kbps
Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release)
Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2540/release

Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP : 2
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 1h 53mn
Bit rate : 3 806 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 544 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.35:1
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.228
Stream size : 3.02 GiB (89%)
Writing library : XviD 1.2.1 (UTC 2008-12-04)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : 2000
Duration : 1h 53mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 448 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 364 MiB (11%)
Alignment : Split accross interleaves
Interleave, duration : 42 ms (1.00 video frame)

[jman98]

Another guess - the size of the file with problems may be larger than your player supports. This is a lot less common on BD players than DVD, but some players won't play AVI files larger than 2 GB and 2 GB would be maybe 60% of the way through your movie. The settings on this file do not look problematic to me, so I'd guess it's the file size that's tripping you up.