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Cannot play burned dvd on home dvd player

ellemacamelle posted 2009 Sep 04 18:38

I'm using ffmpegx to burn a dvd with subtitles (.avi and .srt) and I followed the steps on the site and came up with a disk image that plays on VLC player, which I then burned to a dvd that plays in VLC, DVD player (on my laptop), but not my home dvd. On my home dvd it jumps like a VHS when the tracking is off. What am I doing wrong? Could it be the region?

tomlee59 posted 2009 Sep 04 20:32

Your post is somewhat muddled about what it is that you did. Did you make a DVD-compliant disc starting from an .avi source movie? Or did you burn an avi onto a DVD blank directly, and are attempting to watch it on a DVD-player that happens to support it? If the former, you may have a simple problem with poor-quality media. If you aren't using Verbatim or Taiyo-Yuden, you are rolling the dice. The "bargain-pak" media spindles at Discs R Us are usually not worth the savings. If the latter, then make sure that that the avi has been encoded with parameters that your player supports. Check bitrate, resolution, etc. and verify that your player will accept those. If not, you have to re-encode to spec.

ellemacamelle posted 2009 Sep 04 20:42

I followed the direction's here. Converted the file to dvdmpeg2enc and got a dvd file with a Video_TS and Audio_TS folder inside. I converted that to a disc image and burned it with disk utility. I've gone through this process with other .avi files and it's come out great. I've never done it with the .srt file though. I was using the same kind of dvd and the dvd works in my computer's dvd player just not my home dvd player. (My home dvd also still plays everything else fine.)

ellemacamelle posted 2009 Sep 04 20:43

sorry I meant to include the link to the instructions http://www.ffmpegx.com/dvd_sub.html

Case posted 2009 Sep 05 04:54

ellemacamelle : On my home dvd it jumps like a VHS when the tracking is off. It could be a PAL/NTSC issue. Is your source file and target DVD 25 fps (PAL)? Perhaps your multi-standard DVD player outputs a PAL signal to your tv (as the disc may be PAL encoded), which the tv can't sync properly, as it expects an NTSC signal. This wouldn't be noticeable on a software player/computer monitor. Or perhaps the disc is 23.976 fps (NTSC FILM) with pulldown omitted. This can cause weird visuals. But it would show its effect on Apple's software DVD Player (in the form of 'stuttering').

jman98 posted 2009 Sep 05 07:19

I suspect that Case may be correct in the first paragraph as to what is going on. Open your original AVI file with GSpot and see if the frame rate is 25 fps. If it is, check the video output setting of your DVD player and see if you can change it to NTSC. It may be on something called either ANY or MULTI. If you can make this change, it should fix a problem with 25 fps video. If your DVD player does not have any setting to change the video output to NTSC, then your DVD cannot convert PAL video to NTSC and you will either have to buy a DVD player that can do this or (much much worse option) convert your video from PAL to NTSC. We have guides on how to do that here if you look.

ellemacamelle posted 2009 Sep 05 07:29

Thanks. I'll try that.

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