Re: DVD won't play in particular player

Hi Jake,

Thanks for the reply. When I used toast to burn my test, I just burned what DVD SP had created from my Build. Yes there is a .layout and .LAY file but no PAR folder in the VIDEO_TS directory.

Just when I thought I had things sorted I'm further noticing pixelation at times only on the Pioneer DVD player even though my DVD SP encoding was set at 2 pass VBR 5.0 Mbps bit rate & 7.0Mbps Max bit rate - and this on a disk that was burned at 2x via Toast albeit with the layout files that shouldn't be there. Maybe my 8 year old Pioneer DVD deck should be replaced if a £20 Ingersoll makes a better job of playback but I suppose it's useful to have fussy players around for testing although I've never had this much trouble before. Maybe it's the Xpert-Media discs. Think I'll go and try a Verbatim master without the layout files and report back.

Briefly back to the encoding/pixelation. My DVD SP encoding was 7.0Mbps max (from a native PAL DV timeline export) yet the Pioneer DVD player has reported as high as 8.2Mbps at peaks - it this normal? I previously used 7.2Mbps max but reduced it to 7.0Mbps to avoid pixelation. Is it the addition of the audio that's pushing up the data rate? I must admit I've just been letting DVD SP handle the audio as there appears to be no choice under Preferences/Encoding. My programme duration is 80mins so I could have encoded higher anyway but just wanted to maximise compatibility by limiting it to 7.0Mbps. I so far have not tried compression markers.

Thanks.

Graham