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VivF [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Jun 30, 2014 08:44 Messages: 7 Offline
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Hi

Prior to my computer upgrade to Windows 10 I succesffuly made holiday videos that I created on DVD and they played back perfectly on TV.

Since the upgrade and also upgrading to PD13 I can create a DVD that will play back on the computer but the TV shows a message saying that the disk in not formatted correctly.

I am creating as follows:

Recording format .. DVD-Video Widescreen 16:9

Format....MPEG-2 HQ Best Quality

Encoding.....Dolby Digital 2 Channel

I have never needed to format the disc before when creating it with PD12. Am I missing something here, and if so what please?

Thanks
James Dotson
Senior Contributor Location: Tennessee Joined: Aug 24, 2009 20:40 Messages: 3066 Offline
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Try doing one without dolby digital and see if it make a difference. __________________________________
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VivF [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Jun 30, 2014 08:44 Messages: 7 Offline
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Hi and thanks for your reply.

It appears to work.......providing I start to play one of my older (2014) DVD discs first. If when I remove that disc I immediately play one that I created today, todays disc will play.

If I then walk away for 30 minutes and go back later to insert the new disc, the DVD player says it is not formatted. Only found this out because I played an old DVD first thing this morning whilst I was creating without Dolby sound to test the player was ok.

I am going to try two things. Firstly create a disc with Dolby sound and try to play it after an old DVD. And secondly, take one of the discs to my mothers and see if it plays on her DVD player.

If those two options work I think it is more of a player problem than a creation problem perhaps?
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Hi, VivF !

It may well be your player that's at fault. When you author(burn) a DVD the process ends with closing track and closing disc, in other words, finalising. All DVD authoring(burning) programmes do this in various ways.... they have to do so, before a disc can be played in a domestic DVD player. PD13 will process your disc in much the same fashion as previous versions of Power Director have done, up to and including finalisation. So if your DVD player isn't accepting the disc you just did, then, if your mother's player accepts it without any hiccups, then it might be time to wave bye-bye to your old DVD player(how old is it?) and get a new one! They're gettin' to be "cheap-as-chips" these days!

Cheers!

Neil.
Myk
Senior Member Location: The Hartland of Michigan Joined: Feb 05, 2015 16:09 Messages: 205 Offline
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I produce a DVD each year of our senior center stage production. This year I gave a pre-sale copy to 4 people, and played it on 3 dvd players here at home. Computer, DVD/VHS, and a BlueRay. They all played ok.
We had 1 gal say hers didn't play. 2 DVDs. Neither played. Her IT son was going to help her get them working, or she'll buy a new player. I'm waiting for her feedback. .
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Anonymous [Avatar]
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Hi, Myk!

It's very likely some people may still be using very early model DVD players(first or second generation models). These early models don't take kindly to home-burn discs as they were manufactured at a time before home-burning of DVDs was possible(or at least more widely available to end-users like us). It's probably that reason why your discs aren't playing on some DVD players. Those models are too early in the history of the type to be able to handle home-burn DVDs.

Cheers!

Neil.
tomasc [Avatar]
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A slower burn speed could make the DVD readable by more players. At one time only DVD-R and not DVD+R discs were required to play on some of the very old dvd players of early and mid 2000 vintage.
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Quote: A slower burn speed could make the DVD readable by more players. At one time only DVD-R and not DVD+R discs were required to play on some of the very old dvd players of early and mid 2000 vintage.


Hi, Myk, Tomasc & Vivf!

I've not struck trouble when playing my home-burn DVD+R discs on domestic players, and some that I have played them on may be around second generation(but I'm guessing). This is my second attempt at posting as my first got lost in the ether!

Something else I thought about here, is the playing of these discs on stand-alone DVD recorders. They should be able to play discs burned to either DVD+R or DVD-R discs. Myk or Vivf, if you have access to one(or more) of these devices, try your discs on one of them.

Cheers!

Neil.
VivF [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Jun 30, 2014 08:44 Messages: 7 Offline
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Ok my findings are as follows:

Firstly, excluding dolby surround seems to work everytime. Perhaps with a newer DVD Player I may try it again later but the sound is fine for what I want at the moment.

I record on DVD - RW for two reasons. Firstly I can re-use them but more importantly I have found over the years they seem to play on a wider range of players.

My own DVD player is a full size, TV recorder/player which has a hard drive as well as removable disk drive. It is about 4 years old. IF .....and only if I insert a previously created disk (2014) and wait until it is ready to play, then remove the disk and replace it with one created today, the new disk will play perfectly. But, it will only play it once and then you have to repeat the process.

I took one of the disks to my mothers who has a little DVD player about 8 years old and the disk playeed fine.

So my conclusion is that it is a player problem.

Thank you all for your help and advice.

Viv
Myk
Senior Member Location: The Hartland of Michigan Joined: Feb 05, 2015 16:09 Messages: 205 Offline
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I only use JVC Taiyo Yuden DVD-r discs. I almost never get a burn failure. A 16x disc gets burned at 8x. 8x at 4x. Always half speed.

I have had a problem where my Pro Duplicator 1 to 3 has burned discs successfully but ejects the master with an error. It doesn't say what the error is. The produced discs still play fine. This has puzzled me several times.
It's like the disc might not have been finalized. I really don't know.

If I make a disc image on the duplicators' internal HD, I can burn them all day, using that image with 100% success. .
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Hi, Myk!

Your duplication situation may be due to the fact that you're copying home-burn discs. Several early commercially-made DVDs that did not have copy protection embedded in them would copy without fault. But I've struck this once or twice myself, and each time with a home-burned disc in Clone DVD. You're getting a successful duplication of your disc but the master is ejected with an (unknown) error warning, again it's just because your copying from a disc you yourself had made.

Cheers!

Neil.
Myk
Senior Member Location: The Hartland of Michigan Joined: Feb 05, 2015 16:09 Messages: 205 Offline
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Thanks, Neil. Good info.
I started a new thread about M-DISCs.
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/46424.page .
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