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ben-arch

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Registered: 2005-12-17

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[Closed] Burned DVDs unreadable in DVD player and Windows PC

Closed but not solved.  See my last post.

Have tried both k3b and xfburn. In k3b I have tried several filesystems option.  Write speed used is half (x8) the media max speed (x16).  K3b sometimes reports "write error" at the end of the burn process (99%) - my guess is it's trying to write the lead out.

On each dvd I burn 3 xvid movies with sub and idx files for each.  The dvd's (EVEN those that had a "write error" in k3b)  mount cleanly in arch, and each file can be played with no problem, including subtitles.

But ...
DVD player (xvid capable) - the disk contents are read and presented, but once a file is chosen, the player cann't read/play it.

Windows PC - the disk is mounted, the disk contents shown, but if I try to play the movie, the player program is stuck at the begining of the file and that's it.

Any ideas ?

(Oh ... my current solution/workaround is a DOK to transfer the files to the Windows machine and burn them there.  THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE :-) )

Thanks
ben

Last edited by ben-arch (2009-04-14 11:51:49)

windtalker

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Registered: 2008-03-17

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Re: [Closed] Burned DVDs unreadable in DVD player and Windows PC

Try using DeVeDe to make a usable image to burn.
It sounds more like what you're burning as opposed to what you're burning with.
I use DeVeDe to make my images and then burn with k3b with no problems.
Very simple app to figure out.
I play the dvd's on the pc as well as on a dvd player.

ben-arch

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Re: [Closed] Burned DVDs unreadable in DVD player and Windows PC

windtalker - thanks for the idea, but I'm not talking about video dvd's - so DeVeDe is no solution.

I'm talking about data dvds, containg avi files (+subs + ifos).

Ben

windtalker

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Re: [Closed] Burned DVDs unreadable in DVD player and Windows PC

Do you have dvd+rw-tools installed by chance?

You may also want to try VLC as a player since it's compatible on both linux and windows.

Last edited by windtalker (2009-04-13 19:21:06)

ben-arch

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Re: [Closed] Burned DVDs unreadable in DVD player and Windows PC

If I didn't have dvd+rw-tools I don't think I could burn DVD's at all.  Anyway - that was the first thing I've checked.

I could try VLC under windows - but that won't solve the DVD player problem, and, since I've no problem with windows burned dvd, then I don;t think it's a player problem.

Ben

xaiviax

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Registered: 2008-11-04

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Re: [Closed] Burned DVDs unreadable in DVD player and Windows PC

Is this a recent issue for you?

windtalker

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Re: [Closed] Burned DVDs unreadable in DVD player and Windows PC

I don't mean any sarcasm, just trying to help if at all possible plus, I'm not there and dunno what you have or havn't tried.
Your op and follow up posts have me confused.

On each dvd I burn 3 xvid movies with sub and idx files for each.

I'm not talking about video dvd's

I'm talking about data dvds, containing avi files (+subs + ifos).

I'm going to assume you wish to store separate files as data to edit for whatever reason.
I dunno what the data looks like to start with so I'll assume the audio, subs and video are in 3 separate files.
I would think you could simply burn all three files as data as you obviously are trying to do.
Dunno, I never tried with movies.
If all the above is true,, what I've encountered in the past is:

1] k3b is broken and needs reinstalled.
2] The dvd needs to be double density.[ Since the win machine does the job, I doubt this is the prob]
3] The burner is dirty and needs cleaning.
4] The burner itself is faulty and needs replaced.

ben-arch

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Re: [Closed] Burned DVDs unreadable in DVD player and Windows PC

Is this a recent issue for you?

- Yes ... 3 weeks ago I've replaced Windows with Arch (Arch64, LVM, ext4) on my computer.  Everything else works fine.

windtalker -
I'm transcoding movies from DVD to avi format.

Each dvd has 3 films -
film1.avi
film1.idx
film1.sub
film2.avi
film2.idx
....

As far as the system is concerned - those are simple data dvd's. clicking on an filmX.avi file should open the film in the default viewer.  Also, most standalone DVD players today support avi format (xvid/divx encoded).

The files open with no problem on the Arch computer, but not on my other 2 windows computers or the DVD player.

1] k2b and xfburn were both removed and reinstalled.
2] no need.
3] brand new computer, but I will try this later.
4] possible, but I dont remeber a faulty burner ever.  Will replace it with and ide one from a win machine and see what happens.

5] and thanks for your help

Ben

ben-arch

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Re: [Closed] Burned DVDs unreadable in DVD player and Windows PC

[Closed]

This is NOT a hardware/Arch problem (even though the DVD writer was defective).

As it turns out, the problem is with the encoding process (transfering the film from DVD format to XviD format).  Used a usb to copy the files to a window machine, and still they do not open.

Am closing this thread.