Why does it play on mine and not his??

Ericl · Post by **Ericl** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 1:55 pm

HI

I use VS9.
I just made a DVD for a client out of a VHS tape.
It plays fine on my Home DVD player but it doesn't on his DVD player
He says there's no sound.
Another client had a same thing some times ago.
The DVD would not play at all.
Is it something to do with the model of DVD player?
Or else?

If needed, i will give all informations concerning my system and configuration.
I just thought it would'nt be useful at this point

THANKS

BrianCee · Post by **BrianCee** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:07 pm

Yes it's a sad fact of life that not all DVD players play all DVDs - especially ones burned on a computer as opposed to commercially pressed ones.

It is very much down to the specifications of the users DVD player - some will only play DVD-R some will only play DVD+R etc. - you need to check out the full spec of their players to see what would work for them.

If it's any help the consensus seems to be - the cheaper the DVD player the more likely it is to play *most* burned DVDs

Ericl · Post by **Ericl** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:37 pm

Thanks Brian for this quick reply

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:58 pm

He says there's no sound.

It seems that your client's player can play the "burned" DVD, but you may have used a non-standard audio format.

The DVD standard supports 3 different audio formats. The correct one depends on where you live:

NTSC (North America, etc.) All NTSC players must play LPCM & AC3 audio. Everything else is optional.

PAL (Europe, etc.) All PAL players must play LPCM and MPEG-2 audio. AC3 was optional in the past and new PAL players are required to play it.

tyamada · Post by **tyamada** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:42 pm

Here is a link to a DVD compatability chart, you might want to use it when creating DVDs for friends.
http://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers

Doverwhite · Post by **Doverwhite** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:19 pm

According to threads on another forum the most multi player compatable recordable DVD's are DVD+R's bitset to bookmark as DVD-ROM a process which I and apparently others do not understand. ( i.e. the recording is made to "look like" a commercial DVD). Several DVD burners these days are apparently set to do this automatically when burning a DVD+R (E.G. BenQ and my own Phlips DVD8701 supplied with my Dell PC)

Using DVD Identifier I can confirm that Bookmarking to DVD-ROM only occurs when burning a DVD+R. I have been carrying round a couple of +R DVD's burnt on my PC and have tried them on several friends DVD players and two DVD -recorders and DVD players in their PC's as yet without failure. Whereas a DVD-R fell over on about 25% and a DVD+RW played on only a few.

This whole story confuses me as I always thought that DVD-R being a DVD Forum standard was the closest to their DVD-ROM standard but....?

The problem with the chart linked by tyamada does not include the cheapo brands of player sold at supermarkets in the UK (Akura, Bush, Cello, etc.......)

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:22 pm

To add to what DVDDoug wrote, I have a big problem with Ulead deciding to use MPEG2 audio for some of the NTSC DVD video templates.

They are doing their customers and themselves a huge disservice by choosing to create video files that are not guaranteed to be compatible with otherwise fully compliant NTSC DVD players.

If a user is aware of the ramifications of using MPEG2 audio for NTSC disks and wants to edit the templates, that's fine, he/she can do so. But to ship the templates like that is a really bad decision.