I've been backing up alot of my DVD's onto DVD-R's recently and I've been running into some issues post-burning. The DVD-R burns fine using Nero 7 Premium edition. I've been using the same media tha I always have, and it has worked well until now. Since I was given some instructions from a friend of mine, I started there. I was able to encode it properly, and then had the Video TS files and such to deal with. I was a little lost with MAGICISO. I opted to use NERO to burn the Video TS folder to a DVD-VIDEO as instrusted in a post I found on here. Prior attempts worked fine, but I had never used NERO to burn the VIDEO-TS folder the way it said in the post. My friend would do the majority of steps for me, and the only thing that was left for me to do was burn the ISO image myself, using nero. That was simple, and every DVD I have burned that way has played properly on just about any player I tried it on. Now I run into this issue: After the disc is burned it runs fine on my PC's DVD drive. But when I insert it into a standard DVD player it plays in black and white and it skips the entire time and in other DVD-Players it starts to read it, then just gives me a bad disk error. Would using a program other than nero to burn the Video-TS files help? I thought MAGICISO would do the trick, since it says it makes ISO, but I assume i am doing something wrong. My dvd player won't even recognize the disc as a DVD. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
even though you have used the same media for a while now, the quality of the media might have changed especially if it's crappy media to begin with!~ You didn't mention what media you are using! there are plenty of reasons why certain dvds won't play in other players: 1. burning speeds: burn at 4x so there will be less writing errors (rule of thumb is to burn at half the rated speed of the disk--8X disk burn at 4x). 2. read manual for your stand alone player and use the disks that will play in your player. If your player is less than 2 yrs old then it should play the + or - R disks! I said SHOULD that's why you read the manual. 3. try booktyping your drive to DVd-ROM so it will make your +R disks more compatible to players. Read this: http://k-probe.com/bitsetting-booktype-faq.php 4. make sure that there are no finger prints or scratches on your disk that make it hard for the player to read the disk! 5. use good quality media (rule of thumb....buy the ones that are Made in Japan.) Taiyo Yuden, Sony, Maxell, Fuji----MIJs! read the lable and make sure it says MIJ on it to assure top notch media! Verbatim is a top notch disk and is the only exception to this rule....Verbatims are made in Taiwan and they are top notch and the only Taiwan disks I will use! 6. and don't burn too close to the outer edge of the disk ..... which will make the disk unreadable! but using good media you will be able to burn close to the edge better than lesser quality media. Just in case I only burn no closer than 4400MB, so if you can set your programs to that, all the better! follow these little tips of the trade and you'll have better success! good luck. also read this: http://www.cdfreaks.com/print/article/113 why the +R media is better than the -R media
@Circa1972 The above advice IHoe has givven is great advice. But the thing that is making me think you possibly might have a diffrent problem is the DVD playing in Black & White. This is uasly due to you trying to play a PAL video on a NTSC system. Is this a PAL Comercial DVD or a downloaded movie? Double check and make sure it is not a PAL video. If the movie is in PAL and your system does not read PAL format then you will have to convert the PAL video to NTSC. How are you encoding the video? What programs do you use? Some DVD standalone players will play both NTSC & PAL. A few outcome problems that may happen if you try playing a PAL on a non PAL system is... If the DVD player plays both PAL & NTSC but the TV is not PAL compatible then in most casses the DVD player will play the DVD but the TV plays it in Black & White. If the DVD standalone player does not suport PAL then you will get an unsuported DVD error. If you are questioning yourself on burrning the DVD correctly in nero then use the guide below which shows how to make a DVD-Video with files that are ready to be burrned. Start off by running Nero Burrning Rom...
