Problem producing DVD - Jumps prematurely to next chapter when playing the DVD.

Hankster65

Newbie Location: Kettering, OH Joined: Dec 04, 2018 09:19 Messages: 44 Offline

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Dec 14, 2018 18:12

PD 17.02314.1 Windows 10

I produced a good DVD that played beautifully on my DVD player. No probs at all. Then I made a few MINOR changes to the project and produced another DVD. (None dealing with chapters.) When I play this DVD it goes a couple of minutes into the first chapter then suddenly jumps to the next chapter, then immediately jumps to the next chapter, etc. I can PREVIEW the DVD in Create Disc and everything is hunky dorey. But when I burn the disk I get crap.

I have....

Deleted all chapter markers and recreated them. (Numerous times, actually.)

Manually deleted all temporary files in PD's General Settings.

Rendered the project several times.

Rebuilt my create disk template from scratch.

This is the second time this newby user has encountered a problem in PD that I cannot seem to clean slate for the life of me. (Last time it would only render to a certain point and then produce the video and go no farther.)

I'm producing lots of DVD coasters and frankly becoming more than a little disenchanted with PD. It's very frustrating when you can preview it on the screen and it's perfect and then the DVD produced is over and over the same exact crap.

AVPlayVideo

Senior Contributor Location: Home Joined: Apr 06, 2016 19:03 Messages: 703 Offline

Dec 15, 2018 03:57

You say it works perfectly before you burn the DVD.
Have you tried to burn your DVD to a folder in HD, play from the folder. 2 click the file "VIDEO_TS.IFO"
If it works as it should, the problem may be in the recording of the PD or in the media itself. XEON-E5-2680 v4 / Mem. 16GB DDR4
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Hankster65

Newbie Location: Kettering, OH Joined: Dec 04, 2018 09:19 Messages: 44 Offline

Dec 15, 2018 10:48

Quote You say it works perfectly before you burn the DVD.
Have you tried to burn your DVD to a folder in HD, play from the folder. 2 click the file "VIDEO_TS.IFO"
If it works as it should, the problem may be in the recording of the PD or in the media itself.

Thanks for the suggestion. I burned it to a folder but I was unable to get the IFO file to play. I did, however, get one of the VOB files to play audio and it did not have the problem of skipping ahead to the next chapter. So, yes, it appears to be related in some way to actually burning to a blank DVD. I'm thinking it's not the actual media itself because it always skips at exactly the same spots.

Out of desperation I rendered the project to an mp4. I then started a new project in PD and placed that rendered file on the time line. I then set chapters as before and burned it to a disk and It works perfectly. I still have a little minor tweaking to do to the project but I guess I'm just going to try and accomplish it with the that already rendered file.

I just have to think that there is somewhere a cache file, work file, shadow file, or whatever, that is not getting cleared. There is much I love about PD but I found myself sitting at my desk last night literally breaking pencils in half and throwing them across the room. And I'm actually a very laid back guy!

Anyway, thanks again for a most excellent suggestion, one I had not thought of trying. If you don't take joy in the snow you'll have less joy in your life and the same amount of snow.

Hankster65

Newbie Location: Kettering, OH Joined: Dec 04, 2018 09:19 Messages: 44 Offline

Dec 15, 2018 13:06

MAJOR UPDATE:

I'm not sure what to make of this and I'm hoping someone with a lot more knowledge than me can advise.

I've been trying to play the disc on a 10 year old PS3 that I've never had any kind of issue with. I discovered that if I play it at 10x it goes right past the spot where it invariably has skipped forward to the next chapter and then it plays everything else fine. If I play it at normal speed it fails. If I play it at 1.5x it also fails.

Here's where it gets interesting: I just installed VLC on my laptop. VLC plays it beautifully and at normal speed.

Do I have a problem with my PS3? Is that what's been going on this entire time?!!! Or maybe VLC is just better at getting past some sort of glitch?

Input and thoughts are much appreciated.

AVPlayVideo

Senior Contributor Location: Home Joined: Apr 06, 2016 19:03 Messages: 703 Offline

Dec 15, 2018 13:44

To play the DVD on the PC, if the VLC does not play as a Tablet Player.
Install a codec package like this that I use K-Lite Codec Pack, then Media Player will run DVD and many other formats still comes with Media Player Classic that supports many video and audio formats.
K-Lite Codec Pack download here http://www.codecguide.com/

As for DVD burning I use the speed 8X for disks that accepts up to 16X on an Asus DVD burner, I recorded the 4X had problems jumping or playback failures also for speed above 12X. In packs of 50 discs can happen from 1 or 2 have factory defect after engraving that we will know. XEON-E5-2680 v4 / Mem. 16GB DDR4
M.2 NVME 512Gb / 2-SSD Sata3 1TB
AMD RX570 / Display Philips 272V8
Windows 11_64Pro / PD22/365

Tony Ish UK

Newbie Joined: Dec 14, 2018 05:36 Messages: 32 Offline

Dec 15, 2018 14:06

I do wonder if there are glitches in PD17 burning process. I am presently investigating why DVDs burn on PD17 fail, but identical material burnt via PD13 work as expected on my system.

I will ill be posting a thread once I have my act, and discussion material / examples assembled

Rgds

Hankster65

Newbie Location: Kettering, OH Joined: Dec 04, 2018 09:19 Messages: 44 Offline

Dec 15, 2018 19:11

After much research today I am now 95% convinced that I have been fighting a bug that actually resides in the 10 year old PS3 I've been using to display my output disk. Holy crap, talk about misdirection! There are tons of dusty old entries in various forums that perfectly describe the problems I've been having.

It is not 100% yet but I'm pretty sure I owe PD a HUGE apology. BOTH of the problems I've described on this forum I now believe are attributable to the PS3 firmware bug. I've discovered that the disks I have been burning with PD will play flawlessly on a cheap portable DVD player I have and also VLC will easily play them on my Windows laptop.

Much thanks for the input I've received on this forum and my apologies for raising what appears to be a false alarm, one that does not concern PD.

BarryTheCrab

Senior Contributor Location: USA Joined: Nov 06, 2008 22:18 Messages: 6240 Offline

Dec 15, 2018 20:47

Quote After much research today I am now 95% convinced that I have been fighting a bug that actually resides in the 10 year old PS3 I've been using to display my output disk. Holy crap, talk about misdirection! There are tons of dusty old entries in various forums that perfectly describe the problems I've been having.

It is not 100% yet but I'm pretty sure I owe PD a HUGE apology. BOTH of the problems I've described on this forum I now believe are attributable to the PS3 firmware bug. I've discovered that the disks I have been burning with PD will play flawlessly on a cheap portable DVD player I have and also VLC will easily play them on my Windows laptop.

Much thanks for the input I've received on this forum and my apologies for raising what appears to be a false alarm, one that does not concern PD.

I don't think anyone here is looking for an apology. The fact that you found the probable cause and posted it here is a kinda-sorta apology and we actually thank you for adding the information that may help others.

Hankster65

Newbie Location: Kettering, OH Joined: Dec 04, 2018 09:19 Messages: 44 Offline

Dec 15, 2018 20:58

Quote
I don't think anyone here is looking for an apology. The fact that you found the probable cause and posted it here is a kinda-sorta apology and we actually thank you for adding the information that may help others.

Thank you! After two days of head bashing I needed that.