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DVD architect 4.0. ‘faulty’ burns.
I’m having problems with burning a DVD with DVD Architect 4.0
What happens is, if I use DVD Architect to both prepare and burn, the finished DVD doesn’t work properly on my home DVD player.
It freezes, or sometimes plays 10 or so minutes into the DVD and stops.
Now if I use DVD Architect to prepare ONLY and burn with Clone DVD, all works well, which is what I’ve been doing.
Am using a new-ish Pioneer DVD burner.
Has anyone else experienced anything like this?
-Frankie
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6 Replies
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Same here.
Lots of problems trying to play DVDs made on DVDA on a home player. Many people who have tried to view the DVD said the same thing…it would either not play at all, or not play properly…
Not sure why that is.
How does one prepare on DVDA and then burn on another program? And is Clone DVD simply a better DVD authoring program?
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Clone DVD is not an authoring program.
All you do is prepare the output using DVDA to a folder. Then you load the folders(VIDEO_TS, AUDIO_TS) into your burning program. Then burn. But you have to make sure you have the burning options set up correctly to burn a legal DVD.
Just use ImgBurn to burn, and you won’t have problems. Unless of course it’s your DVD player and/or crappy media that is causing the problems in the first place.
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I think most people burn with Nero. You can encode with DVDA but even there you can easily get into a mess. Incidentally, if DVDA tells you your file is “6.1 gb” when it is much less, that is an error message (apparently the only one DVDA issues for all problems). It could be a render it didn’t like.
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another tip i can suggest is to not burn at full speed. Just because that disk says it will burn at 16x doesn’t mean you should do it. I always burn my dvds at 8x. Also, make sure the bit rate isn’t too high, I’ve only experienced problems when the bit rate is pushed above 8,000,000
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Thanks. That is a good suggestion.
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This thread hits on precisely my problem.
Using Taiyo Uden discs or any others it seems that burning with DVD Architect, regardless of speed – I’ve gone to the slowest possible setting which is 4X, I’m getting reports of DVD’s freezing and skipping.
Can this be a function of interlaced video instead of progressive?
My discs play 100% of the time on PC’s and seem to fail just about as often on DVD players.
The only one I’ve verified as possibly related to rendering as interlaced was playback on a Marantz 9600 progressive DVD player.
Does DVDA have a problem and if so, will I make more reliable discs burning with another tool?
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