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First off, yes I am a newbee at this... and I have spent a day or so looking through the other posts to try and find an answer, but alas, I have been unable to get a clear picture of a solution.
I own a Karate School, and my students have been after me to produce some training videos for them. I have spent the money on getting:
160Gig HD
capture card (Hauppauge WinTV)
internal DVD burner (LiteOn 16x) with Nero and Vision Express 2
pack of Phillips DVD+R discs
analog cables to bring in old VCR videos
Firewire (IEEE 1394) cable for bringing in digital camcorder into my system via onboard IEEE 1394
Pinnacle Studio 9 Plus
running an ASUS motherboard (unsure of specs there)
Windows XP
512MB Ram
NVidia GeForce 4 4800
Here is the rub. I have made several videos, brought them into Pinnacle and edited them accordingly, sent them back out with Pinnacle to the burner... 1-2 hours later, poof, a DVD is born. I take the newly created DVD and play it on my machine, GREAT. I take it to my stand alone DVD player (APEX), GREAT it plays there as well, take it to the stand alone downstairs (TOSHIBA), "disk error"... send it to a student to test on their machines... their home computer - FINE, their DVD player in the car - FINE, their DVD player at home - FINE again.
I figure it's a problem with my player downstairs. I send it to another student. DVD player at their home - sometimes yes, sometimes no. Their computer - unable to read codec (windows media player 10). Their computer at work - FINE. Their DVD player at work - FINE.
In a nutshell - how does Blockbuster do it? How do they get DVD's to play on every stinking machine you try them on, yet mine are sketchy at best. It is hard to justify getting a student to PAY for a training video, when it may or may not play for them. Is there a solution that I have been unable to locate, or am I justified in being frustrated.
Please help if you can, for this just plain stinks. A legit reason to produce a DVD, and nothing but frustrations.
Thank you again for the time you put into helping us that come to this forum.
-kmkenpo
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 23. August 2005 @ 07:27
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