cant play on standalone dvd player

[fingerbang]

spent the last while reading up on everything that may help me, but im stuck.

 

burns fine and will play on my comp, but wont play on my home dvd player, says disk cannot be played.

 

heres my log after changing the book type. ive now made 5 coasters, any help would be appreciated.

 

ps, i JUST started tonight.

 

HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H10L LL10 (ATA)

Current Profile: DVD+R

 

Disc Information:

Status: Complete

Erasable: No

Sessions: 1

Sectors: 443,472

Size: 908,230,656 bytes

Time: 98:34:72 (MM:SS:FF)

Supported Write Speeds: 2.4x, 4x, 8x, 12x

 

Physical Format Information (Last Recorded):

Disc ID: MAXELL-002-00

Book Type: DVD-ROM

Part Version: 1

Disc Size: 120mm

Maximum Read Rate: Not Specified

Number of Layers: 1

Track Path: Parallel Track Path (PTP)

Linear Density: 0.267 um/bit

Track Density: 0.74 um/track

First Physical Sector of Data Area: 196,608

Last Physical Sector of Data Area: 640,079

Last Physical Sector in Layer 0: 0

[lfcrule1972]

Hi - welcome to the forum, firstly to really be able to eliminate the easy stuff we need to see the burn log from ImgBurn, the one that appears in the bottom window. I have incl a copy of one below for info....

 

 

 

I 18:15:57 ImgBurn Version 2.1.0.0 started!

I 18:15:57 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2)

I 18:15:57 Initialising SPTI...

I 18:15:57 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...

I 18:15:57 Found 1 DVD-ROM, 1 DVD?RW and 1 DVD?RW/RAM!

I 18:18:47 Operation Started!

I 18:18:47 Source File: D:\Root\DOCTOR_WHO_9_TO_13.MDS

I 18:18:47 Source File Sectors: 2,285,856 (MODE1/2048)

I 18:18:47 Source File Size: 4,681,433,088 bytes

I 18:18:47 Source File Volume Identifier: DOCTOR_WHO_9_TO_13

I 18:18:47 Source File Implementation Identifier: DVD Shrink

I 18:18:47 Source File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02)

I 18:18:47 Destination Device: [1:0:0]BENQ DVD LS DW1655 BCIB (E:) (ATA)

I 18:18:47 Destination Media Type: DVD-R (Disc ID: TYG02) (Speeds: 2.4x, 4x, 8x)

I 18:18:47 Destination Media Sectors: 2,298,496

I 18:18:47 Write Mode: DVD

I 18:18:47 Write Type: DAO

I 18:18:47 Write Speed: MAX

I 18:18:47 Link Size: Auto

I 18:18:47 Test Mode: No

I 18:18:47 BURN-Proof: Enabled

I 18:18:47 Filling Buffer...

I 18:18:48 Writing LeadIn...

I 18:19:10 Writing Image...

I 18:27:11 Synchronising Cache...

I 18:27:40 Image MD5: a694f9b6b2eab3aaae529e4c38329011

I 18:27:40 Exporting Graph Data...

I 18:27:40 Graph Data File: D:\ImgBurn\DVDinfoPro\Graphs\BENQ_DVD_LS_DW1655_BCIB_22-OCTOBER-2006_18-18_TYG02_MAX.ibg

I 18:27:40 Export Successfully Completed!

I 18:27:40 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:08:52

I 18:27:40 Average Write Rate: 9,504 KB/s (6.9x) - Maximum Write Rate: 11,185 KB/s (8.1x)

I 18:27:40 Cycling Tray before Verify...

W 18:27:55 Waiting for device to become ready...

I 18:28:09 Device Ready!

I 18:28:09 Operation Started!

I 18:28:09 Source Device: [1:0:0] BENQ DVD LS DW1655 BCIB (E:) (ATA)

I 18:28:09 Source Media Type: DVD-R (Book Type: DVD-R) (Disc ID: TYG02) (Speeds: 2.4x, 4x, 8x)

I 18:28:09 Image File: D:\Root\DOCTOR_WHO_9_TO_13.MDS

I 18:28:09 Image File Sectors: 2,285,856 (MODE1/2048)

I 18:28:09 Image File Size: 4,681,433,088 bytes

I 18:28:09 Image File Volume Identifier: DOCTOR_WHO_9_TO_13

I 18:28:09 Image File Implementation Identifier: DVD Shrink

I 18:28:09 Image File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02)

I 18:28:09 Verifying Sectors...

I 18:33:52 Device MD5: a694f9b6b2eab3aaae529e4c38329011

I 18:33:52 Image MD5: a694f9b6b2eab3aaae529e4c38329011

I 18:33:52 Exporting Graph Data...

I 18:33:52 Graph Data File: D:\ImgBurn\DVDinfoPro\Graphs\BENQ_DVD_LS_DW1655_BCIB_22-OCTOBER-2006_18-18_TYG02_MAX.ibg

I 18:33:52 Export Successfully Completed!

I 18:33:52 File Successfully Deleted: D:\Root\DOCTOR_WHO_9_TO_13.ISO

I 18:33:52 File Successfully Deleted: D:\Root\DOCTOR_WHO_9_TO_13.MDS

I 18:33:52 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:05:43

I 18:33:52 Average Verify Rate: 13,328 KB/s (9.6x) - Maximum Verify Rate: 17,033 KB/s (12.3x)

 

 

 

This will tell us if there were any errors during the burn or verify. Actually do you verify the burns you do ?

 

 

 

Secondly what image is it that you are burning ? For instance the fact that it plays on your PC but not on your standalone might indicate that maybe it's a region issue or NTSC/PAL conflict etc....

 

 

 

We need some more info from you before we can really help you.

[fingerbang]

ok, i am writing another right now to get the log file.

 

its a tv show episode, just 1 epidose to save time.

 

there were no errors.

 

here is the log

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I 02:37:48 Operation Started!

I 02:37:48 Source File: C:\Program Files\DIKO\Temp\disc.iso

I 02:37:48 Source File Sectors: 443,459 (MODE1/2048)

I 02:37:48 Source File Size: 908,204,032 bytes

I 02:37:48 Source File Volume Identifier: MOVIES

I 02:37:48 Source File Application Identifier: MKISOFS ISO 9660/HFS FILESYSTEM BUILDER & CDRECORD CD-R/DVD CREATOR © 1993 E.YOUNGDALE © 1997 J.PEARSON/J.SCHILLING

I 02:37:48 Source File Implementation Identifier: mkisofs

I 02:37:48 Source File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02)

I 02:37:48 Destination Device: [0:1:0] HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H10L LL10 (F:) (ATA)

I 02:37:48 Destination Media Type: DVD+R (Disc ID: MAXELL-002-00) (Speeds: 2.4x, 4x, 8x, 12x)

I 02:37:48 Destination Media Sectors: 2,295,104

I 02:37:48 Write Mode: DVD

I 02:37:48 Write Type: DAO

I 02:37:48 Write Speed: MAX

I 02:37:48 Link Size: Auto

I 02:37:48 Test Mode: No

I 02:37:48 BURN-Proof: Enabled

I 02:37:49 Filling Buffer...

I 02:37:49 Writing LeadIn...

I 02:38:27 Writing Image...

I 02:39:59 Synchronising Cache...

I 02:40:00 Closing Track...

I 02:40:02 Finalising Disc...

I 02:40:23 Image MD5: 3b8a5bd32064419b7b03c1fc1a3071a8

I 02:40:23 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:02:34

I 02:40:23 Average Write Rate: 9,640 KB/s (7.0x) - Maximum Write Rate: 11,180 KB/s (8.1x)

[lfcrule1972]

Ok - from that log it appears that you don't verify your burns, you can tick the little box in the program GUI to do that during a burn.

 

However, I think it's more likely that the episode might be in a different format to the TV system your dvd player is set up for. Can I assume that you didn't record the TV episode yourself ?

 

For instance if you live in the US your TV system is NTSC and most of your DVD players seem to only want to play NTSC format discs. Now if you obtained a TV episode from say England with our PAL system your standalone player will more than likely give you a message that it cannot play the disc whereas the PAL/NTSC thing does not affect your PC and therefore that will play it back ok.

 

Obviously the reverse can apply if you're living in England/Europe etc but it seems that our DVD players are less fussy about PAL/NTSC.

[fingerbang]

i used diko to do all that conversion stuff. if that means anything, it was an avi file.

i did set it for ntsc as i live in canada.

[lfcrule1972]

I have never used diko so I wouldn't know how to confirm all the settings, it just sounds to me as tho the conversion didn't work properly.

 

You can play it on the PC ok so it doesn't sound like an error with the .iso.........