Hey, recently I bought a CyberHome DVD Recorder / Player and it plays DVDs fine, until I tried to play some DVD-Rs of movies I burned from my computer that contained MPEG files. I don't know why it's having a problem, because I played the DVDs fine on my Xbox, until it broke. The movies are just a bunch of Green squares, and there is audio, but the video is just squares. So, what can I do to fix the problem? or should I just get a different DVD player?
Well, I used the same Media and it worked on my Xbox. So I'm kinda confused how that would work. I use Legacy 8x DVD-Rs. I used WinAVI to convert my mpeg to DVD, then I tried converting the mpeg to AVI to DVD for some reason, and that didn't work either. Any other ideas?
Well firstly I think Rotary is trying to be gentle, in explaining the way you posed. your question lacked details; .re. did you convert the mpeg files???
Secondly Russreef It may well be a media problem, but let's follow the thread.
thirdly rflem04 No two PCs' are the same, what works fer you, don't work fer me.
i mentioned divxtodvd as you are not the only person to get this problem lately and it is a new problem thats just appeared on afterdawn! and from what i have read there isnt a new app used, so apps that were used have been good to go before without a problem, now this could piont to media used but as yet i can not find a defining factor with this issue, although i think winAVI has been mentioned, so now there are 2 apps i think that have made discs and got this problem so far, which are winavi and divxtodvd, another factor is that it wasnt dvd to dvd, it was like yours a conversion of avi/mpeg to dvd which is interesting!
as you say the part where your disc plays good on the xbox and not on other players is odd for me? i wonder if it is media but its on the borderline ok? its not basicaly a good 100% burnt film and the dye type mixed in with the burn technique (encoder) isnt a rock steady combination!
if it were me i would try a pro app/apps meaning use avi2dvd / CCE and if it comes out the same i would plum for the media, if its A-O-K then the apps used are suspect!
but as i say its new here and still being talked over!
I'm downloading AVI2DVD and if it doesn't work I'm taking back the DVD player tomorrow, and I'm just going to buy a new one, with DivX support and mpeg support and such, I think that will help, don't ask me why, but I do. The CyberHome 1600 seems kinda cheap, but then again, I hear that DVD recorders aren't really good for playback right now.
i spose theres cheap and cheap but most here will tell you expensive dvd players can be very select and not play some discs! i got 5 real cheapo dvd players and they play anything i chuck at it! they are usually the best!
I've read some threads, and most of them say that people think the Recorder DVD players just aren't ready for DVD-R/RW playback, so I'm thinkinng that this is the problem. So, I think I am just going to go buy some real cheap DVD players until I find one that plays everything. Which shouldn't take long.
