Panasonic player reports DVD unsupported

[maddrummer3301]

When I use my Sony Dvd recorder to burn a Dvd-r in the computer
the resulting Dvd plays fine on the panasonic units I own.

When I use my Lite-On burner to burn the same project in the
computer to a dvd the panasonic units usually don't like the dvd.
They have trouble reading them. At least on my system(s) the
Lite-On dual format burner seems to really like Dvd+R media.
I don't even use the Lite-On anymore for burning Dvd's. Just the
Sony units. They always produce a dvd that works.

MD

[lancecarr]

I have noticed a few people on the board having burning and subsequent playback problems with regards DVD's. I stumbled upon this article whilst looking for something else but I think it is important information that we all should be aware of. The full article is at the URL below but the main point is that sometimes, regardless of how well we have done our shooting, capturing, editing and burning there is always one possibility for falilure that is easily overlooked.
The quote below is from a guy called Fred Byers who works for the National Institute of Standards and Technology. They are an independant group researching the quality and longevity of DVD media with the hopes of formulating an official standards code. Basically if your burner's manufacturer doesn't agree with with you media's manufacturer or player manufacturer then it's no go. The same goes for every combination of manufacyurers in between.

"One thing we've found in compatibility testing [of DVD-R and +R media] is that it's a relationship between a specific brand of media and the manufacturer of the hardware," observes Byers. "There was no one drive that played every single type of compatible media, and there was no one media brand that played perfectly in every drive."

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article...,RSS,RSS,00.asp

[DrAnton]

I have two Panasonic DVD-RV32 DVD players, and both have trouble reading the DVD I created today. The LiteOn DVD drive on our PC plays its absolutely without flaw. Its picture is clear, and the sound is great. But the Panasonics freeze and stutter throughout playback. The manual for the Panasonic player says it can handle DVD-R, which is what I burned the video on using VS8's create disc feature.

I don't have another DVD player to try the finished product on. I'm curious to see if another brand has problems reading the DVD disc, too.

As far as Ulead VS8, it captured, and created the menus/sub-menus with ease. We've been happy with its results prior to this, with the first project we burned to DVD. (It was in AVI, that was converted to MPEG 2 for the burn. This latest one was captured in DVD format, and burned that way.)

Any way, it looks like there may be some kind of compatibility issues with Panasonics DVD players.

GlennG

Glenn, it is not just Panasonic. After lots of editing and trials, I burned a video to DVD today using VS8 and it will not play in my Phillips DVD player!!! This makes me think Al may be on to something. I thought I had downloaded and installed all patches including the new CD/DVD burner patch, but I'll try it again.

Has anyone had any difficulty between burning DVD+R and the new dual layer disks?

[GlennG]

I took the MPEG 2 file that had been created/edited by Video Studio 8 and opened it in NeroVision Express 2. I then created a menu and burned it to a DVD-R. I played it back in the Panasonic DVD player mentioned in my earlier post and it played flawlessly! Then I removed that DVD-R and replaced it with the one that I'd burned with VS8. It didn't even get past the menu screen without hosing up big time! So I don't think, at least in my case, that it's the DVD player. I'm beginning to think it's the way VS8 created the DVD.