[Kathie Brown]

Thanks for sharing the specs you use for video on CD. We did do the de-interlace–although the client insisted on the larger 720 size–but it played back well on the 9-year old “test” computer. Thanks, Kathie

[Kathie Brown]

Thanks for the reply. We have decided to go with lower bit rate (originally 4171 kbps to 1545 kbps for saftey. The larger file size worked well on most computers, but stuttered on a 9 year old computer.

[Kathie Brown]

Thank you for all of the helpful information. We DID try burning 4 new DVDs for dupe masters to help resolve this verification problem. Out of 3 DVDs re-burned on our Pioneer drive, only one was verified by the duplicator’s system. We also burned another DVD on a Samsung drive we have and that was also verified. Perhaps our Pioneer drive is having an intermittent problem similar problem to yours where a drive burns a playable DVD that is not verified. Do you recommend the Plextor drives? our duplicator likes his Plextor 800A drives. Thanks much, Kathie

[Kathie Brown]

I mean duplicate DVD-R’s. The duplicator was getting the verification error on an LED readout on the front of his Plextor 800A drives. He also looked at the written side of the disk and said the band of data looked too thin. I thought verification usually compares the original file to the file written on a DVD at the time of writing. When a disk is verified without that original file to refer to, I assume it is looking for errors. But it seemed to check out fine at our facility and play fine–but then he got the verification error. He thinks our Pioneer DVD drive is failing. But if it is burnings DVDs that appear to play fine, how do we troubleshoot? Thanks for any help, Kathie