Burning discs for a Stand alone DVD Player
August 5th, 2016
I tried searching online, and I’m not sure if I understand the problem correctly, but I think if I played the disc on a Newer DVD player, it would work. I dont understand why that is. If I burn CDs, they work fine on my DVD player, but not DVDs from this new PC. I tried different software, I even used an external DVD Writer, but same result, I keep getting on my DVD player – error: can’t play disc.
Anyone know what this could be? Please Help!
Thanks
PS – I called Gateway Support, and they said they couldnt help me.
how old is your dvd player?
, first of all i dont get it, that for playing the dvd on your stand alone (sitting room) dvd player or the dvd player on your new pc ? And if you play on new pc, which software you use to play dvd movies on your new pc ? Do you use cyberlink dvd player software or any others. If it is so, then try to download this codec pack and install it and try.
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_lite_codec_pack.htm
Another salution is that the dvdr player on your new pc. Note the name and id for it and go to the manufacture site and download new software for it and update the software for you dvd player, enen if it is just a dvdplayer or a rewrite dvd player.
Hope it will help.
Regards
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I do not know what software you are using to burn DVD’s but here is the “BEST ONE” : http://www.imgburn.com/
I have more then 5000 DVD’s on my own archive and %80 of them burned… Never had an issue… Double Layer, Single Layer, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW or wtf it is.. It just burn them all without any problem and it works on my PS3, Philips DVD3360 DVD Player, on my Laprtop (Acer 5920G) on my PC (builded by myself)
Worked for me on XP/Vista/Win7…
This program is absolutely freeware and amazing good.. It can burn DVD film image files (iso, bin, nrg, img, cue…….etc) and also can burn VIDEO_TS map.. But it CANNOT CREATE/CONVERT/RIP an original DVD video!!! To create a DVD from an avi/mkv my advice: avi2DVD (% 100 freeware)
To copy/duplicate any Original! DVD: DVDDecrypter or DVD-Fab (%100 freeware)
To burn them all: ImgBurn
You can find bunch of guides for those software on the net if you need to.. Or just ask here again:)
Give a try…
Thanks all for helping out. I’ll try and explain a bit better…
My Living room DVD player is old… about 6-7 years old. It works well for me, and I don’t plan to change it, for now.
I have 2 computers (1) HP which is about 4-5 years old, and (2) the New Gateway which I have had for just over a month. I use the SAME software on both compuiters. ConvertX… IMGBurn… Nero.. DVDDecrypter.. DVDFab… etc.
So I know the software is not a problem. However, when I burn the disc on the Gateway computer, the disc does not play on my old DVD Player. If I take the SAME file and burn it in the older HP comp, it plays fine on the DVD player.
I think if I take the disc that I burnt on the new Gateway computer, it will play on a newer DVD player.
By the way , I have the updated writers and software for my Gateway PC DVD-Writer.
I also use DVD-R and write at the slowest speed possible.
Thanks.
Hi , I’m here from the great DVDR thread !
If you could post the brand/model # of the DVD drive you’re having trouble with it might help us to troubleshoot.
Just off the top of my head, some of the things I would do to try and isolate the problem:
1) If you can open up both PC’s without spoiling your warranty, you may swap the DVD drives and try to re-create the problem.
2) You can write some data (music, pictures, video) instead of a DVD image and check if it is accessible on your older PC. If your DVD player supports such data formats, you can check with that too.
3) Try opening a DVDR on your older PC with the file browser instead of the DVD software and see whether you can access the files, open up properties etc.
Well, thats all I can think of for now. Maybe with the brand and model # we can check whether anyone else is experiencing similar problems.
With any version of Nero installed and either you use DVDFab or AnyDVD with DVDShrink, burned at a speed of 4X for DVD- and at 8X for DVD+ you should be able to play on any DVD player I have mine its 7 years old and never had a copy that would not play
Hi and ,
Thanks for your replies. Here’s some of the answers to the questions…
1. The DVD Drive/Writer is not the problem, because I used another external drive which I used before and still had the same problem.
2. I did write music CD and played it on the same DVD player without problems. I only seem to have problem with DVD video… whether it be DVD-R image or through convertX.
3. If I take the DVD from new comp to old comp, it will play fine. Only when I write on new comp and play on DVD player, I have a problem. The old comp has no issues when playing on the DVD player.
Weird huh?
PS – New computer is Gateway SX-2800 with original drive.
Hi and ,
3. If I take the DVD from new comp to old comp, it will play fine. Only when I write on new comp and play on DVD player, I have a problem. The old comp has no issues when playing on the DVD player.
Weird huh?
PS - New computer is Gateway SX-2800 with original drive.
Try this if you havnt all ready burn one on the new computer at 4X .open your options and it will say burn at MAX speed use the drop down and select 4X, see if this wil end your troubles, the only other thing could be ASPI driver is corupt, you can also download a new ASPI driver
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/cdr_software/cdr_tools/aspi.cfm
If I had issuses with a clean install or a new setup and found my problem it was usally this driver that gave me problems
If two different drives (on two different interfaces as well, I’m guessing the external drive is either USB or Firewire) can replicate the same problem, the problem should be at the OS level ? (Seems like it shipped with Vista, which unfortunately is the worst Windows OS )
It could also be a compatibility issue with DVD-R and DVD+R?
Interesting… I’ll give those options a try. Thanks again