I can't remember that I've ever had a problem creating a working disc with ConvertXtoDVD until today. Actually, the disc in question works fine in my OppoDVD player, which plays anything that can be played. But it gets a "Cannot play" message from my PanasonicBlu-ray player which normally plays ConvertX created DVDs just fine.
The question is, why? I know that not all players can handle all types of files, but I assumed (until now) that once any video file - avi, mpeg, or whatever, had been run through ConvertX and converted to the DVD format and burned, that it was now a type of DVD disc that would be universally compatible.
Perhaps it's the media - not the content.
If you burned the same project to a Taiyo-Yuden or Verbatim disk the problem might go away.
I have a Panasonic player that has problems with Ritek coded disks.
Nope, not a media problem. I use Maxell DVD-Rs and the PanasonicBlu-ray unit plays them fine. I also checked the problem disc on my SonyDVD player and it cannot read it either.
The video file is a typical. approx 700MB avi file. I convert these things quite frequently using the same computer and the same ConvertXtoDVD software and play them on both the Sony and the Panasonic players.
Am I wrong that ConvertXtoDVD turns the original file into the DVD standard VOB files that any standalone player recognizes?
you are right, the job of ConvertXtoDVD is to create standard DVD video content... that can be read by any regular DVD player.
If you did convert the file to the wrong region format though (PAL or NTSC) that does not correspond with where you live then maybe that is why the disk does not play. Even if converted to the wrong format you should nonetheless be able to play the disk on your computer as computers are rarely limited to region specification. See if you can watch the disk on your computer.
If you go to Help in ConvertXtoDVD, and open log file, you can do a control F (find) in the notepad file search for the words PAL or NTSC -also correspond the date and time of the conversion, so you make sure you are checking the right file that you had a problem with.
You could also open the converted file with some freeware like MediaInfo or Gspot to see how the region format, which also might be displayed as 25.000fps = PAL/ europe, or 29.97 = NTSC / N. America
