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NoTurning wrote on 8/24/2009, 8:40 AM
Hi,
This has been gone over a lot here, a search of previous posts might help.

Many DVD players do not play burned DVDs well - other don't like certain formats. It's best to experiment with DVD+R, -R and etc. Avoid using the RW as they rarely work well in a consumer DVD player.

Unfortunately there is no standard and no burned disk will play in 100% of players.

Justin
ralftaro wrote on 8/24/2009, 9:07 AM
What Justin said.

However, before you pass this off as a pure readability issue, a failure of the player to read the physical medium properly and get the data from the disc, you might want to double-check to make sure that you have burned the correct logical format that a DVD player can interpret. Make sure in the disc-authoring screen of the program that you're actually picking a standard video DVD as target format. The program offers a few other possibilities that wouldn't necessarily be suitable for every regular DVD player. You can verify whether the already burned discs are DVDs by browsing the contents on your computer. On a proper DVD, you'd have to find a "VIDEO_TS" folder structure that holds all the actual video and audio content, mostly *.VOB files.

Also, make sure that you're burning the correct video format for your country and target DVD player (e.g. "NTSC" for North America or Japan and "PAL" for Europe and Australia). You can access the MPEG-2 encoder settings from a button in the final burning dialog. Check whether it's on the correct format and correct it manually, if needed.

When playing this on your computer, the software you're using for playback might be a lot more flexible when it comes to the support of various formats. I will be able to replay other video formats outside of MPEG-2/DVD and it will be flexible when it comes to NTSC and PAL. So, the disc might play. However, your DVD player usually won't be that flexible.

I hope this helps.