DVDs Authored on Architect 6.0 Won’t Play On Standalone Player

[Aaron Star]

I would make sure you are on the latest builds of Vegas and DVDA.

Then maybe try some different media like Verbatim, even try burning a DVD-RW disc, or DVD-R or DVD+R. My experience with LG drives has not been that great. I have had 2 LG drives stop burning +R media correctly but burn the others fine.

Memorex is some of the worst media out there, with high error rates beyond 3.8GB. There are utilities out there that you can test your media surface quality from beginning to end.

[James Magda]

There is only one build of Vegas Pro 13 and DVDA Pro 6.0.

The media I was using (DVD-R) was all from the same brand – even from the same cakebox/batch. The media worked on the Vista, but not on the Windows 10 desktop. Wouldn’t that eliminate media as the culprit?

I tried burning to a DVD-RW – same thing: wouldn’t play on the standalone player.

I have two LG Blu-ray burners in my Vista desktop – those are the ones that are burning the discs that play perfectly on my Samsung player. Never had an issue with LG.

I’ve read many comments like that about Memorex, but I’ve been burning Memorex blu-rays and DVDs for customers since 2011, with no issues until I switched desktops.

I have run a surface scan test and a transfer rate test on one of the Memorex DVDs in question that won’t play on the standalone Samsung player; it found no errors – the disc checked out with a clean bill of health.

Last night I found the solution. It was what I suspected first but didn’t check it out first, because I assumed the company who built my new desktop made sure each component was up-to-date with its firmware, because that’s what I always do when I install any new components. Never assume. It turned out to be the LG burner simply needed a firmware update. I updated it from 1.0 to 1.01, and burned a new DVD – works like a champ on the standalone Samsung player.