DVD Architect Burn won’t play in DVD Player

[Douglas Spotted eagle]

media? Perhaps that DVD player doesn’t like the DVD brand/type/speed you’re using.

Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASST

Certified Sony Vegas Trainer
Aerial Camera/Instructor

[Gary Semics]

Thanks for you’re quick reply but that’s not it because the other DVDs that play in the player are the same brand (DVD +R).

[Nigel O’neill]

Can you try DVD-R as well? Do they play?

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10 (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Stephen Mann]

Who Really Makes the Disc?

Realize that most media is produced by a relatively small number of factories, located in several different places. These factories are mostly present in Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, China and India. There are more, but those are the largest ones. The best media generally comes from Japan, Taiwan and Singapore. The worst typically comes from China and Malaysia.

The blank disc brand name on the package means almost nothing. Apple is a great brand, but they do not make their own discs, instead outsourcing to a company like Mitsubishi Chemicals. Common companies like Memorex, Maxell and Imation all outsource to media vendors. Mitsubishi also makes the discs for Verbatim, etc.

It is the media ID that is important, as it reveals the disc manufacturer. Unfortunately, this is not written on packaging or anywhere else. Companies want consumers to be oblivious to this sort of behind-the-scenes information. The Media ID is also used by your DVD burner to determine the burn parameters which includes the maximum burn speed. Never, ever burn your DVD’s at the maximum burn rate. (You will make a lot of coasters if you do). Pick a speed in the middle; 4X or 6X is my personal limit.

I recommend that you use the freeware “DVD Identifier” to read the media ID to learn who *really* made the discs in your box:
https://www.afterdawn.com/software/cd_dvd/dvd_tools/dvd_identifier.cfm

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Greg Barringer]

They are the same brand but are they the same speed? I have a player that will not play 16X discs. I have to use 8x discs or slower.

[Stephen Crye]

Hi;

I suddenly have this same problem. Have been using DVD Arch Pro 5.2 for a year, no problems burning DVDs to either of my burners, one is the Optiarc AD-7200S drive that came with my Dell T3400, the other is a 6 month old LG BHLS30.

Without doing anything different for this project, ( a quick 30 sec vid created with Vegas 10e 64bit ), I grabbed a Memorex DVD+R from the same 50-disc spindle I have been using for the past month. Created the project, burned the disc in the Optiarc. Tested playback with VLC. Took it into the living room; would not load in the Samsung Blu-ray player. Tested in the bedroom on the cheap Magnavox, same problem. Discs I burned from the same spindle last week OK.

Came back to computer, burned again, this time with the LG drive. Same failures.

Now I am frustrated and at a loss. Could some bizarre software problem be the cause? A Win 7 update came through on Tuesday, last successful burns were prior to that.

Baffled … worried …

Steve

[Stephen Crye]

No solution yet, but have new information that might lead someone to help me figure it out.

The problem is definitely software and/or config, confined to DVD Architect Pro 5.2 only, because I can burn OK directly from Sony Vegas Pro 64-bit 10e. Dics burned from Vegas play OK in all DVD players.

DVDA 5.2 projects that I saved last month or longer will still burn OK and produce discs that play OK in my Samsung or Magnavox players. The problem only affects new projects. I have carefully compared all project settings and they are identical between the new projects that fail and the old projects that are fine.

I’m now testing DVDA with the simplest possible project – just a menu, no actual content. Burn speed has no effect on the problem.

I tried a full uninstall of DVDA 5.2 build 124, did a CCleaner to get rid of all previous reg settings. Also uninstalled all new software (not much) I had placed on this Win7 pro computer since the last successful projects a month ago, including the Xvid and Camstudio lossless codecs. I then installed the latest build of DVDA 5.2, build 132.

gSpot shows nothing odd about the discs that fail – MPEG2 codec, NTSC 29.97 fps, etc. The discs that fail play fine in any of the half-dozen computers I’ve put them in. They only fail in DVD players attached to TVs.

On a different computer, I used Roxio to duplicate one of the problem discs. The duplicate disc has the same problems.

I’m really ripping my hair out at this point. I have a stack of HP and Memorex coasters that is growing ever larger …

Please help …

Steve

[Mike Kujbida]

Steve, have you tried a different brand of disc?
I had a co-worker who had a spindle of Verbatim DVDs (usually a very good brand) and some were defective.
He used the utility that Stephen Mann suggested and discovered that the defective ones weren’t the same as the good ones.

[Stephen Crye]

Hi Mike;

Thanks for the reply. I know my post was lengthy so you probably missed the tests I did that already elmininated dics as the possible cause of the problem.

I have solved the problem. It was software.

I’m happy but disgusted.

The details are in this thread : DVD Architect Pro 5.2 error when preparing Blu-ray

It is interesting that the problem had nothing to do with burn speed , or disc brand … it was 100% a software conflict with a stupid Windows update and DVDA 5.2 .

Very Frightening and Disturbing!

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T3400 MultiTB SATA 8 GB RAM Vegas 10e x64 DVDA 5.2

[Stephen Crye]

Hi;

The link in my previous post is broken. Don’t know how to edit posts on the CCow forums, so here is the correct link:

DVD Architect Pro 5.2 error when preparing Blu-ray

Sorry about that.

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T3400 MultiTB SATA 8 GB RAM Vegas 10e x64 DVDA 5.2