Taperssection.com

Gear / Technical Help => Photo / Video Recording => Topic started by: Jimna on July 29, 2005, 05:22:03 PM

Title: dvd burning help
Post by: Jimna on July 29, 2005, 05:22:03 PM
for some reason everything ive downloaded and then burned wont play on my dvd player, but anything i have copied from dvd to dvd does.  ive searched the archives and had no luck.  what am i doing wrong?  i read in the archive about using dvd decrypter, but no luck there either.  any jedi dvd burners out there?
Title: Re: dvd burning help
Post by: Ray76 on July 29, 2005, 07:12:46 PM
for some reason everything ive downloaded and then burned wont play on my dvd player, but anything i have copied from dvd to dvd does.  ive searched the archives and had no luck.  what am i doing wrong?  i read in the archive about using dvd decrypter, but no luck there either.  any jedi dvd burners out there?

What do you use to burn them??

DVD Shrink is what I use to burn downloaded concert footage dvds, and dvd decryptor for backing up home movies. what error are you gettijng??i can help maybe.
Title: Re: dvd burning help
Post by: Jimna on July 29, 2005, 07:57:21 PM
i've tried various different burning methods.  i tried using plextools software that the burner came with.  none of these dvds will play in my dvd player.  next i tried taking the downloaded file to dvd shrink, creating an iso file, and burning it with dvd decryptor and these discs won't play either.  i'm not getting any errors, just dvds that won't play in my player (and it's not my player cause i've tried some friends' as well)  but they will play on my pc.  i can't figure out how to burn the downloaded files directly to dvd decryptor.  it only seems to burn iso files.

not sure what i'm screwing up.  thanks for any help.  +t for effort.
Title: Re: dvd burning help
Post by: Ray76 on July 29, 2005, 08:15:58 PM
i've tried various different burning methods.  i tried using plextools software that the burner came with.  none of these dvds will play in my dvd player.  next i tried taking the downloaded file to dvd shrink, creating an iso file, and burning it with dvd decryptor and these discs won't play either.  i'm not getting any errors, just dvds that won't play in my player (and it's not my player cause i've tried some friends' as well)  but they will play on my pc.  i can't figure out how to burn the downloaded files directly to dvd decryptor.  it only seems to burn iso files.

not sure what i'm screwing up.  thanks for any help.  +t for effort.
your dvd player might be incompatible with all burned discs, or incompatible  with DVD+R discs.  make sure you are using DVD+R discs and not DVD+RW discs.  most players support DVD-R and DVD+R media, but  some players still dont support the RW re-writable discs.

Is this in PAL format?
Title: Re: dvd burning help
Post by: Jimna on July 29, 2005, 10:37:51 PM
i have copied many dvds using dvd+r media and they all work fine in my player.  so i'm sure my player plays dvd+rs.  there's just something about the way i'm burning them that i'm doing wrong.

i'm not familiar with what pal format is.
Title: Re: dvd burning help
Post by: Ray76 on July 29, 2005, 10:40:19 PM
i have copied many dvds using dvd+r media and they all work fine in my player.  so i'm sure my player plays dvd+rs.  there's just something about the way i'm burning them that i'm doing wrong.

i'm not familiar with what pal format is.

PAL is what a lot of EURO players use, its a quality setting.
pal formats wont play on NTSC dvd players(american) unless trhe player says so.
Title: Re: dvd burning help
Post by: Jimna on July 29, 2005, 11:48:29 PM
i checked my settings and i didnt find pal format as an option, but the dvds i copy and burn all work and im not changing anything.  any other ideas?
Title: Re: dvd burning help
Post by: F.O.Bean on July 30, 2005, 12:26:22 AM
testy microsoft shit :P ;)
Title: Re: dvd burning help
Post by: Jimna on July 30, 2005, 12:46:50 AM
really!!!  all i want is to watch my copy of floyd reunited and rock out for 25 mins!  ......and now that ive discovered dvd downloads of my fav bands, i wanna be able to jam them too.  damn it man! 
Title: Re: dvd burning help
Post by: sabre on July 30, 2005, 03:22:22 AM
really!!!  all i want is to watch my copy of floyd reunited and rock out for 25 mins!  ......and now that ive discovered dvd downloads of my fav bands, i wanna be able to jam them too.  damn it man! 
I assume you're talking about Pink Floyd's performance at Live8? If that's the case, then it may be in the PAL format rather than the NTSC format. Do you have the info file available? If not, could you post the link to the torrent site where you got it from and I will be able to verify whether the video is PAL or NTSC.
Title: Re: dvd burning help
Post by: Ray76 on July 30, 2005, 05:34:55 AM
testy microsoft shit :P ;)

damn testy europeans and their PAL shit.  :P