Does anyone here know what DVDs are best for burning purposes???

I've complied a DVD film and want to burn it onto DVD-R and then distribute it. Only trouble is (as I've just found) some media don't play very well on some DVD players....

I burnt the movie onto Sony 16x DVD-R (which have a good reputation) but it won't play on my standalone player (it's a Pioneer DV444- not too shabby).... The mpeg stream keeps on breaking down... I've tried different authoring softwares and different burning programs but still no joy.. I wondered if it was my DVD player (which would suck cos it wasn't very cheap!!) but when I shrunk it onto a 1.4Gb camcorder TDK disk it played fine (even if the quality suffered in the process)..... So it looks like it's TDK 1, Sony 0.....

Any ideas?

There's such a high signal:noise ratio on the net I'm a bit wary (e.g. some people say Verbatim are good, some say they're coaster makers par excellence...)....

And I'm going to be sending out quite a few so Maxell Studio-Quality discs aren't going to be an option unless somewhere here can get them at serious discount

I bought Sony DVD-Rs and I'm having the same problem reading them on any player, doesn't matter which player, my expensive one or the cheap one

Cheers
David

Mine was the same. I changed to dvd+r's and its fine now.

Frustrating eh!!! Especially when I (perhaps stupidly) assumed the discs were okay because of their reputation and looked for other problems...

Oh well, at least now I know more information than I'll ever need to know about the difference between a data disc and a DVD-movie format, CBR vs VBR, NTSC vs PAL with 3:2 pull down.... the mind boggles....

I think I'll try some TDKs!!!

Ben - I always use Verbatim for CD's and DVD-R's.

I have NEVER had a problem with other DVD Players not playing them. Providing you use the correct format for burning them. If it's a film you're burning, "always" export as VOB's in PAL format using CBR. If you're using purely for data then it's irrelevant what format you use. Some DVD Players will play mpg, avi, divx but most are very particular what disc's and format etc etc.

Steve

I've always used Infinity as they are fairly cheap and I've not had a problem that I could put down to them. To be honest my son does more with DVDs but he uses them with every success but of course they are "free" for him.

One question if I could ask, will an American sourced "multi region" DVD play on our DVD players. I can't ask my son as it is a present for him. One supplier says they are NTSC format the other doesn't mention it, will it make a difference on a normal DVD player not the PC.

Regards

Keith

Lots of DVD players will convert the NTSC to PAL by doing the aforementioned 3:2 pull down... and then display it on a PAL screen without a problem...

which is handy cos making a DVD region free is easy (either with a DVD player hack or something like DVD shrink) whereas converting NTSC to PAL can be a bit of a nuisance (though it's doable cos I did it the other day!!!)

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Originally posted by BenB
Lots of DVD players will convert the NTSC to PAL by doing the aforementioned 3:2 pull down... and then display it on a PAL screen without a problem...

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mine a tescos own and never had any problems dvd-rs