[Amar Chebib]

So I guess I spoke too soon.

This disc burned fine. But it seems to run into problems on Track 1 on Chapters 4-5 (37:23-1:00:42) when played both on my LG DVD player and on my Playstation 2.

On the DVD player it starts skipping and showing artifacts and on the Playstation 2 it simply say’s it can’t read the disc. From Chapter 6 (immediately following the Dual Layer Break which isn’t activated as a chapter but just a marker for the break) it plays fine.

The whole thing plays perfectly fine on my PowerMac G5 though.

I’m using Sonik DATA DVD+R DL 8x discs and I’m burning it at 2x speed. I’ve never used this media before, as I’ve never burned DL discs before.

Any ideas?

[Amar Chebib]

Hi Michael,

I managed to solve the problem. Here is the info + what I did.

The total amount of space used on the disc is 7.6 GB. There are 2 tracks. Track 1 is 2 hours and Track 2 is 3 minutes. I was checking the valid chapters in Format.

I placed an additional 50 chapters throughout track 1 and rebuilt it. 3 chapters are then became black under Format. The problem was that they were in the middle of a music performance and would interrupt it upon the layer change.

I’m assuming that because my disc was quite full, there was a relatively small area where I can have the dual-layer break. There was a small space between performances about 5 minutes before the first chapter that was valid for a break point. So I went to the VTS editor and put Track 1 in VTS 2 and Track 2 in VTS 1 and then rebuilt it.

Voila, I was able to put my dual-layer break on the black space between performances. It’s formatting right now.

Thank you Michael for your promptness and all the other information you have posted on this subject.

Amar