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“CANNOT BE PLAYED’ authored DVD —WHY? Long…
Awrite—been doing the DVD authoring thing for 3 or 4 years now. Thought I had—no, definately had—pretty good work flo thing going up to FCP 4.5 w/export mpg2 QTime and all. Then w/FCP5 we’re forced to use the time wasting with no visible reason at all for having to use worthless COMPRESSOR.
Here’s my deal—I have three different brands of DVD players that I check discs on befor sending to customers. A Sony DVPNS501P, a Pioneer DVL-919 and various G3’s, G4’s & G5’s with different optical brands of DVD players in ’em.
I normally use Verbatim Gold Archival blanks for primary, and always send discs burned on other brands of blanks as back ups on each job just to be sure. I burn using Toast at 1x DVD speed. Usually max Bit Rate 7, target 6. This system worked great prior to COMPRESSOR, with very few if any playback problems from any customers.
Now, after spending over a year trying to get COMPRESSOR to work, I still get ‘CANNOT BE PLAYED’ usually on my Pioneer. Not to mention the quality usually s**cks with artifacts and blocky transitions and stuttering.
This with all three kinds of blanks I currently stock, burned on 2 different burners, a LaCie dual layer burner and the Super Drive in my G5. I have followed all boards and forums and tried all suggestions as far as CBR, VBR 2 pass, best, better good—and all that. Not to mention compression markers in FCP.
Finally, here’s the question—is there some way to compare or analyze discs to determine the differences say between one of my old authored discs that ‘works’ and one of new ones that ‘CANNOT BE PLAYED’?
Thoughts?
Thanks
p2
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6 Replies
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Dear P,
The problem is Toast, not Compressor. The latest version of Compressor is in fact an excellent app that yields excellent results.
FYI, I routinely encode with Compressor and then author on a PC and burn my discs on the PC as well. I have never made a bad disc yet and I have made many professional discs that have then gone on to be professionally replicated.
When using the same files from Compressor, authoring on the PC and then burning with Toast, I encounter problems of all sorts — i.e discs that won’t burn, or discs that burn but won’t play, or discs that play very sporatically.
DRW
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Every single disc I have burned for the past several years has been with Toast 5.2, and, other than the known issues with 2-pass Variable in Compressor 2.0, I can count the problems on one hand. I never saw the need to upgrade to a newer version of Toast. Perhaps that was a good decision.
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Chris,
The fact that Toast 5.2 is terrific and continues to be terrific for you is not really germaine to the discussion — it does not change the fact that Toast Titanium 7, even the final and most up to date version, ver. 7.1.2, is a peice of crap for many users. If you don’t believe me, just go to the Roxio website and read the user forums.
If version 5.2 was still available that would be lovely, but in fact its not, and now version 8 has arrived to market. I wouldn’t spend 10 cents on it personally.
DRW
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the Toast angle didn’t occur to me. I’m using 6.1.1 by the way.
But still, why would that be a factor when everything else was working beautifuly
until the other changes? It’s the only variable in my workflow that didn’t change.And the question remains, some way to determine the differences/problems with
a disc that ‘CANNOT BE PLAYED’?p2
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Burn the disc in DVDSP.
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My point was that his problem may be confined to the particular version of Toast he is using. Older versions are available elsewhere, including E-Bay right now. Just trying to get at the root of the man’s troubles.
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