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hardc0re
30th December 2003, 22:02
Man have you ever been in that situation where no matter what you try, some problem always happens?.

For the last 2 weeks I have been trying to place svcd or vcd movies onto DVD. I have read almost every post in here and although some offer ideas, they are not really what I need or understand. I am hoping that there is at least one kind sole out there who can put me out my missery. I'm on my second pack of 25 dvd's now and running out of patience. Getting up at 5.30am with the kids and checking to see if my project has been succesful is getting depressing now.

I have read the svcd>dvd guide on here. I have no problem now joining .Mpg or converting to .mpg files from svcd .dat files or mpg.

I can join succesfully multiple files to form one large file.

My problem is transfering the project to DVD.

Today I tried Nero Vision Express which i hoped would work as it has a very noob easy user interface. Everything seemed fine. The finished program worked on my computer hurrah .. take the disc out and placed it in my stand alone samsung dvd player .. I get the menu up .. and thats it .. nothing.

I took the same discs ( as i tried many methods ) to my father in law who happens to have around 5 dvd players .. samething menu and chapters appear .. movie does not play.

I don't understand how it can work fine on my computer using Neroexpress .. but not on dvd players? I downloaded the Nero manual and everything seemed correct what i was doing.

I have tried several other programs including Ulead DVD workshop to place my .mpg and to encode it to mpeg2? I did get it working by chance once .. but couldnt do this again.

Please could someone point me in the right direction. As i said before .. mergeing the files I am fine with .. its finalizing and burning to dvd that will work on a stand alone dvd program that is the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

nitro
6th January 2004, 01:29
Have you tried using Mainconcept MPEG encoder www.mainconcept.com it converts just about anything to fully DVD compliant files, then drop into TMPGEnc DVD author.

hardc0re
6th January 2004, 10:24
I have on my desktop .. dvtool .. mpeg-vcr .. dvd workshop .. spruce up ... dvdlab... as well as a few others... The simplest way of doing what i want and works perfect everytime is with NeroVision Express .. choose the parts of the film i want .. join them and convert them to pal or ntsc dvd .. every film so far has been great ... thanks for the feedback as i have discovered some excelent tools in the process.

lucindrea
7th January 2004, 20:38
um .. this thought just poped into my head ...

dvd-r or dvd+r ... rember dvd+r is NOT standard .. you need a dvd player that is made for dvd+r ( like trying to put a mp3 cd in a car stero , if it dont do mp3 , it dont play ) ....

BTW .. this was the reasion i went and chose DVD-R when i got my writer .. so it would play in all dvd players.

hardc0re
9th January 2004, 09:34
Eh, my dvd recorder does - and +R's. So would you say on the whole in the uk that stand alone dvd players prefer -R discs?

lucindrea
9th January 2004, 19:10
-R has allways been the default .. +R is new and was developed for the dvd recorder units you can buy for your tv ( like a tivo replacement ) .. because of that alot of NEWER dvd players will now handle +R .. but thats like saying all NEWER car steros will play mp3's ... their is still a ton of players out their that are useing the default -R for dvd's ....

all i was stateing is that when your testing dvd burns is that you double check that the format your useing to burn is somthing the player your testing can play :-)

GeorgeForeman
1st February 2004, 03:18
After creating 50% coasters from my first ten tries and imperfect results for four out of the other five, I now test burn everything to +RW first then copy the resulting disk over to +R if I am happy with it.

When dealing with 4.7 gig of space lots of errors just seem to happen all the darn time.

Disk space not considered properly or temp folder was directed to C: which did not have anough space. Some other program caused a CPU delay which caused a burn error. Some encoding error occured like the movie has a sound gap or something odd. Programs seem to like to make multiple copies of things and then copy those bah! Or some of the many beta programs the program simply crashes (hey it is Windows after all maybe my swap file ran out of space or my directx or codec freezes who knows) etc etc.