Re: [SLUG] Problems with DVD creation
Patrick, You haven't mentioned the format of DVDs you're using. I believe that the general consensus is that DVD-R generally has better compatibility with DVD video players than DVD+R. It could be as simple as this. Also the semi-conductor lasers used in DVD players tend to lose power over time, and while there is compensating circuitry for this, eventually they reach the design limits. We have had a few PC-based CD/DVD-ROM drives and a regular DVD player that simply would not read marginal disks any more, despite lens cleaning. Home burned DVDs always tend to not be readable before commercial pressed media in this situation. Regards, Martin martinvisse...@gmail.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Problems with DVD creation
Ken Foskey wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 08:49 +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: I'm back on Debian Lenny now, so can't confirm any of this. Anyway, it seems funny that it would work on your computer but not the DVD player. Brings to mind. Check the quality of the DVD media. Sometimes crappy DVD's will not read properly on cheaper hardware. I can second that motion -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Problems with DVD creation
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 08:49 +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: > I'm back on Debian Lenny now, so can't confirm any of this. Anyway, it > seems funny that it would work on your computer but not the DVD player. Brings to mind. Check the quality of the DVD media. Sometimes crappy DVD's will not read properly on cheaper hardware. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Problems with DVD creation
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:54:10 +1100 elliott-brennan wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm quite stuck and would really appreciate some > advice/assistance/ideas. > > My apologies for the long post but I'm trying to > be clear about what's happening and trying to > solve it without wasting people's time. > > I'm having a weird experience with DVD creation > and playing. > > Presently using Kubuntu Karmic 9.10. > > All the hardware is the same as prior to upgrading > from 8.04. > > I installed 9.10 about four months ago. > > > BUT > > get this: > > If I hit the key that looks like this on the DVD > player and in-car DVD player > > >>| > > (forwards by scene??) > > and then hit the play button I get the first video > in the queue and sometimes can >>| through to > the second video() > > > Well, I'm stumped. Well and truly. > > Any help would be very gratefully and willingly > accept...I'm too confused and tired now. Hi Patrick, Feels like teaching my grandmother how to suck eggs to give *you* any advice on videos, but . My power supply blew out last week and so I had to fire up an old machine. I installed Ubuntu Koala on it, and did all the updates. Using DVDStyler, I noticed that the setting on the "button properties" that tells it where to go didn't "stick". Every time I made any little change I had to go back and reset the button properties telling the thing where to go. (I always use the "Jump to titleset" Action settings) In a panic, I checked that the DVD works in the old player and it does (two titles). I'm back on Debian Lenny now, so can't confirm any of this. Anyway, it seems funny that it would work on your computer but not the DVD player. Cheers, Alan > > Regards, > > Patrick > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Alan L Tyreehttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Problems with DVD creation
Hi all, I'm quite stuck and would really appreciate some advice/assistance/ideas. My apologies for the long post but I'm trying to be clear about what's happening and trying to solve it without wasting people's time. I'm having a weird experience with DVD creation and playing. Presently using Kubuntu Karmic 9.10. All the hardware is the same as prior to upgrading from 8.04. I installed 9.10 about four months ago. I made several DVDs last year which still work on my home DVD player. They also work on my desktop and our crappy in-car DVD player. However, none of the DVDs I have made today will work on our home DVD player nor will they work on our in-car DVD player. By not working, I mean that I get the menu page up and can move to the different selections on that home page but when I select an option nothing happens - i.e. the DVD does not play the related video. I'm using DVD-Styler to construct the DVDs from videos I've made which is the same app I've used for a couple of years. All of the DVDs work on my desktop machine (which is the machine I use to burn the DVDs). I have just burnt a DVD from an ISO which I created last month and the DVD will not work on our home DVD player. We have one laptop with a built-in DVD player. A Hewlett-Packard. It has a small linux distro (called Quick Play) which operates at boot, separate from the main distro. You start it like a DVD player (the keyboard has separate keys for this function). Older disks I have made will work on this as will commercially produced DVDs we own. An .iso I just burnt (which had been created last month) works fine. I can select the menu options and the videos play. The newer disks I'm burning from iso made today out of new dvdstyler projects won't work. The newer ones show only the menu but won't kick on to the relevant videos. You can click the link, but...nada. On the weekend I burnt an .iso of Vector Linux and that seemed to work fine. I've now taken a DVD-Styler file I created last month (it saves the details as an .xml file so you can merely open the xml file with D'styler and make changes if you wish). I have left one of the original videos in the collection and changed one for a newer video created today. On my desktop and laptop with Quick Play it works fine. On the in-car DVD player I get the menu but the buttons (though highlighting when 'clicked') are not progressing to the videos. BUT get this: If I hit the key that looks like this on the DVD player and in-car DVD player >>| (forwards by scene??) and then hit the play button I get the first video in the queue and sometimes can >>| through to the second video() Is this something to do with how the internal framework of the DVD is working??? The DVD players are not reading the file which tells them where the files are Additional to all this, the blank DVDs are in a big stack. They are kept on the bottom shelf and not exposed to direct sunlight. However it has been getting rather warm over the last few days (as we all know). I've started taking disks from the bottom of the stack but this has made no difference (the stack is about 70 deep). Well, I'm stumped. Well and truly. Any help would be very gratefully and willingly accept...I'm too confused and tired now. Regards, Patrick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
