Black Lab wrote:What I am talking about is the burning procedure itself. If the disc can play without errors, then the burn was successful. It may very well be that the wrong mode was used during the burn, but my answer was geared to the topic being discussed at the time, which was whether the burn was successful or if he was having a problem with his player/media.
japanandy wrote:Note: My DVD burner is a Sony DRU 530a. I've had some problems burning DVD's with it before (in Nero using a VIDEO_TS folder), so the drive may be part of the problem. (Yes, the driver's are updated, but it's a bit older drive now and finicky.)
That drive is very finicky with certain types of dvd's.
I removed mine for the same reason.
I'd burn the iso in one machine different burner, worked.
Burned the same iso in another machine, same software using the 530a and it it wouldn't work. Replaced it with either the 710,720 or 810/820 sony.
Black Lab wrote:If the burned disc plays in your pc then we know the burn was successful. I would look at the DVD player and it's compatibility with the media you are using as the culprit.
The problem, I think, was that Videostudio couldn't burn the movie on my player. On the whole, I'd say the blame is with my Sony DRU 530a player/burner. I've never had trouble burning DATA discs with it, but I HAVE had some trouble burning video previously (using Nero).
However, using ImgBurn (a small, free utililty) I'm able to consistently burn ISO images to DVD's, so I'll stick with that work-around rather than replacing my burner.
NOTE: In a separate thread I said that I'd run into trouble after solving the burning problem. Suddenly I couldn't render videos anymore. The program kept shutting down in the middle of the job. I'm still not sure exactly why that happened, but (between successful jobs) I had installed "Any Video Converter" and some DivX codecs. I uninstalled that stuff and switched to a video optimized user profile (there are threads here about how to do that). Then my problems went away. I suspect the "Any Video Converter" software had created a conflict.
This Videostudio 10 Plus software has been a bit of a headache, but I really like the way it's designed. I used Womble first, and it worked fine, but it felt like doing fine work with big rubber gloves on compared to this. I paid up, downloaded the full version of Videostudio and the service pack, and HOPE it will be smooth sailing from here.
