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Here's MY problem. I used to be able to produce my own DVDs + - R RW or whatever. I do not backup pre recorded DVDs, but rather I have LOADS of DV film of my children. RIGHT I thought, I'll write them to DVD. WRONG.
There isn't a SINGLE STANDALONE PLAYER OUT THERE that will play my discs. Sometimes they will run for 5 mins, 10 mins, stutter and run, drop off and crash, you name it I have seen it!!
Do my discs work in any PC capable of running a software player, well yes perfectly! I can jump, skip, search, title everything!
As I am dealing with MY OWN captured footage, "aha I thought", "this'll doubtless be a LOT simpler than trying to backup a protected DVD movie!" OH HOW WRONG I WAS?
Previously (when I was only "dabbling" with DVD writing tests) ie 3 or 4 minutes of test footage and NO MENUS, things were fine. It SEEMS that the more footage I add, the worse (progressively) it gets. Scenes that are halfway and towards the END of the disc just REFUSE to play, (or they give a nice "freeze frame" crash for me to power out of!)
I just don't understand the difference between PC and STANDALONE. Frustrating is too small a word! My hard disc is LOADED with footage I am too frightened to remove! I cannot reliably back it up! I recently bought a new DVD writer + and -. It was supposed to be faster, but I just wanted + AND - capability. I continue to write at 1x speed too, and I will do UNTIL I can get some success at this speed.
I use the following spec:
1.4 mHz AMD Athlon, Radeon 7200, 1 gig memory, Emprex DVD RW+-, (previously a Pioneer Drive) (-R/RW only), Premiere for edits, DVD Movie Factory for authoring.
Please let me know if I have given scant information. I simply do not know which way to turn. I also have a DVD which (miraculously) DOES WORK, but from 2 years ago! I have tried MORE than 20 (twenty) times to duplicate it, and it DOES play on all major standalones. It is a family disc, not copy protected, and I have NEVER sucessfully reproduced it again for STANDALONE! I even took out (extracted) the VOBs, and replaced them all in a new menu etc in DVD workshop, and RE-BURNED. Plays for approx first few scenes and then jumps, jitters, staggers and crashes.
Hopefully someone with some know-how can help me. Do I need a faster PC, better motherboard, better drive?
Have used Packard Bell DVD-R (these are the FEW that WORK!) also STRAND DVD-R, IMATION DVD+R and one UNBRANDED set of ten.
Thanks for listening (sorry for length...) :)
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