I've burned DVD's that I've authored with Pinnacle Studio 9. The majority of these were collected AVI and other video files that I've collected over time. I tried burning them with Nero Home Essentials, and some files were PAL and others NTSC. I ran them through ImToo AVI to MPEG converter. Set them up in Studio, burnt the disc, and it worked fine in my computer (An E-Machine with a replaced DVD Drive). But when I put them discs in Standalone DVD Players, I get the following error message: DISC Error -- Please Eject the disc. -- Playback feature may not be available on this Disc. It worked correctly though when I took home movies with my video camera of an event we attended, and added shots from youtube videos to enhance our footage. I even took the most recent one that didn't work, loaded it back to the computer with DVD Decrypter and ran it back through Nero creating the disc, but no good, still got the same error message. If I converted all the files to the same image size, NTSC, and framerate using IMToo, shouldn't it work, or is there something in Pinnacle that is set wrong? Do I need to update my software, if so I may have to wait.
The message from your DVD player means that it does not recognize the file format on the disc. DVD players are relatively blind; they only see MPEG-2 and maybe jpg files. Your computer has multiple players and can recognize many different files. Upgrading to Studio 11 will not help you. You need to arrange the video in Studio 9 so that it properly converts them to DVD recognizable MPEG-2 files with the proper video format structure. Experiment with the settings on a DVD+RW disc so that you don't waste discs, and once it works on the DVD player, use those settings in the future. You may have to convert some of the video files before importing them into Studio 9, however.
Thanks guys. I found out that Joe was correct. I thought if I got all the files in the same framerate, that it would fix the problem. Problem was I chose 25 fps, which apparently is PAL format, and not 29.97 which is NTSC. So thinking I was converting everything to NTSC, I converted them all to PAL instead. I converted back, and everything worked correctly. Thanks for the help guys. Now I'm trying to figure out how to add data files on to the DVD I created. I tried it with Nero Vision Essentials, and it adds all the data files, but destroys the menu functioning.
