I have had experience with other audio dvd software and have been disappointed. I decided to give Nero a try for other reasons but would like to convert my wave files to play on my home dvd player. My nero version is the newest, 7.7.51 I believe. My home player is a top line Sony ES. I used to use Audio DVD creator. It was ok. But, when I record an audio dvd using nero, It says cannot read disc. So lets start this off, what information can I give you so that we can start trouble shooting? What do you need to know?
I had a quick look at the Nero website for a tutorial about making a DVD Audio, but came up empty. You can certainly make a MP3 DVD (just MP3 files copied to a DVD, which may not play on every DVD player), a Nero Audio+ DVD (not many machines would play that) or a WMA DVD (think this is WMA files copied to a DVD disk). If you copied your .wav files to a DVD all you have done is made a backup of your files. It is unlikely to play in your DVD player. The media you use can also affect readability. What type of DVD discs did you use? Can you post your log of the Audio DVD burn? Make sure you edit out your Nero serial number before posting Nero 7 history log location: Program Files>Nero>Nero 7>Core>NeroHistory I know it's different media, but have you tried to burn an Audio CD in Nero and try that in the DVD player.- just to check your basic system is going. Edit: Nero history location and SN warning
Good suggestions. My Sony dvd player would play audio dvd's made by audio-dvd creator which essentially created audio/video files and tricked the player into thinking it was a real dvd but only had audio files burned to it. I created a juke box cd using mp3 and disabled the mp3pro option which may have initially been the problem. That jukebox cd played just fine, though I really dont know the difference between making a std mp3 cd and a jukebox cd as nero calls it using mp3 files? I am now going to attempt to burn a jukebox dvd using mp3 files since nero only gives me 3 choices of extensions in which to burn a audio dvd disc: mp3, wma, or nero digital files. I will get back to everyone on the results. Expanding on the other note: I looked for my nero history folder under my c drive. Once I got into the core folder there were only individual files in it. None of the files were labled history and there was no history folder. Can you suggest somewhere else it could be located or perhaps there is a setting I need to check to keep history? I would really like to be able to post that too Thanks
Yes, as we thought, the mp3 audio files burned onto the dvd using the jukebox dvd option would not play. My sony indicated cannot play disc But, I have looked through all my c drive folders and there isnt one labled history for nero either. Im gonna try searching my options/preferences to make sure I somehow didnt turn off history logging.
History must be saved as some file I just didnt recognize as history. Anywho, here is my burn log for the jukebox Audio DVD made from ripped wav files converted to MP3 for the burn: Windows XP 5.1 IA32 WinAspi: - NT-SPTI used Nero Version: 7.7.5.1 Internal Version: 7, 7, 5, 1 (Nero Express) Recorder: <SONY DVD RW DRU-700A> Version: VY02 - HA 1 TA 0 - 7.7.5.1 Adapter driver: <IDE> HA 1 Drive buffer : 2048kB Bus Type : default (0) -> ATAPI, detected: ? CD-ROM: <SONY DVD RW DRU-700A >Version: VY02 - HA 1 TA 1 - 7.7.5.1 Adapter driver: <IDE> HA 1 === Scsi-Device-Map === DiskPeripheral : Maxtor 6Y120L0 atapi Port 0 ID 0 DMA: On CdRomPeripheral : SONY DVD RW DRU-700A atapi Port 3 ID 0 DMA: Off CdRomPeripheral : SONY DVD RW DRU-700A atapi Port 3 ID 1 DMA: On === CDRom-Device-Map === SONY DVD RW DRU-700A D: CDRom0 SONY DVD RW DRU-700A E: CDRom1 ======================= AutoRun : 1 Excluded drive IDs: WriteBufferSize: 83886080 (0) Byte BUFE : 0 Physical memory : 1535MB (1572140kB) Free physical memory: 1071MB (1097692kB) Memory in use : 30 % Uncached PFiles: 0x0 Use Inquiry : 1 Global Bus Type: default (0) Check supported media : Disabled (0) 15.2.2007 ISO compilation 8:56:13 PM #1 Text 0 File SCSIPTICommands.cpp, Line 411 LockMCN - completed sucessfully for IOCTL_STORAGE_MCN_CONTROL 8:56:14 PM #2 Text 0 File Isodoc.cpp, Line 6527 Iso document burn settings ------------------------------------------ Determine maximum speed : FALSE Simulate : FALSE Write : TRUE Finalize CD : TRUE Multisession : FALSE Burning mode : DAO Mode : 1 ISO Level : 1 (Max. of 11 = 8 + 3 char) Character set : ISO 9660 Joliet : TRUE Allow pathdepth more than 8 directories : TRUE Allow more than 255 characters in path : TRUE Write ISO9660 ;1 file extensions : TRUE 8:56:14 PM #3 ISO9660GEN -11 File Geniso.cpp, Line 3334 First writeable address = 0 (0x00000000) 8:56:14 PM #4 Text 0 File Burncd.cpp, Line 3465 Turn on Disc-At-Once, using DVD media 8:56:14 PM #5 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 306 Last possible write address on media: 2295103 (510:01.28, 4482MB) Last address to be written: 36799 ( 8:10.49, 71MB) 8:56:14 PM #6 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 318 Write in overburning mode: NO (enabled: CD) 8:56:14 PM #7 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 2912 Recorder: SONY DVD RW DRU-700A, Media type: DVD+RW Disc Manufacturer ID: RICOHJPN, Media Type ID: W11, Product revision number: 1 Disc Application Code: 0, Extended Information Indicators: 1 8:56:14 PM #8 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 490 >>> Protocol of DlgWaitCD activities: <<< ========================================= 8:56:14 PM #9 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 823 Setup items (after recorder preparation) 0: TRM_DATA_MODE1 () 2 indices, index0 (150) not provided original disc pos #0 + 36800 (36800) = #36800/8:10.50 relocatable, disc pos for caching/writing not required/ required -> TRM_DATA_MODE1, 2048, config 0, wanted index0 0 blocks, length 36800 blocks [D: SONY DVD RW DRU-700A] -------------------------------------------------------------- 8:56:14 PM #10 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 1026 Prepare [D: SONY DVD RW DRU-700A] for write in CUE-sheet-DAO DAO infos: ========== MCN: "" TOCType: 0x00; Session Closed, disc fixated Tracks 1 to 1: Idx 0 Idx 1 Next Trk 1: TRM_DATA_MODE1, 2048/0x00, FilePos 0 0 75366400, ISRC "" DAO layout: =========== ___Start_|____Track_|_Idx_|_CtrlAdr_|_____Size_|______NWA_|_RecDep__________ 0 | lead-in | 0 | 0x41 | 0 | 0 | 0x00 0 | 1 | 0 | 0x41 | 36800 | 0 | 0x00 0 | 1 | 1 | 0x41 | 36800 | 0 | 0x00 36800 | lead-out | 1 | 0x41 | 0 | 0 | 0x00 8:56:14 PM #11 Text 0 File SCSIPTICommands.cpp, Line 209 SPTILockVolume - completed successfully for FCTL_LOCK_VOLUME 8:56:14 PM #12 Phase 24 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1760 Caching of files started 8:56:14 PM #13 Text 0 File Burncd.cpp, Line 4298 Cache writing successful. 8:56:14 PM #14 Phase 25 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1760 Caching of files completed 8:56:14 PM #15 Phase 36 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1760 Burn process started at 4x (5,540 KB/s) 8:56:14 PM #16 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 2764 Verifying disc position of item 0 (relocatable, disc pos, no patch infos, orig at #0): write at #0 8:56:14 PM #17 Text 0 File Cdrdrv.cpp, Line 9288 ---- DVD Structure: Physical Format Information (00h) ---- Media Type: 0, Layer: 0, Address: 0 (0 h), AGID: 0; Length: 2050 Book Type: DVD-ROM (0), Part Version: 1.0x (1) Disc Size: 120 mm, Maximum Rate: <not specified> (F h) Number of Layers: 1, Track Path: Parallel Track Path (PTP), Layer Type: embossed data (Read-only) Linear Density: 0,267 um/bit, Track Density: 0,74 um/track Starting Physical Sector Number of Data Area: 30000 h (DVD-ROM, DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW) End Physical Sector Number of Data Area: 330CF h End Sector Number in Layer 0: 0 h (LBN: FFFD0000 h, 4193920 MB) Data in Burst Cutting Area (BCA) does not exist Media Specific [16..63]: 00 00 01 52 49 43 4F 48 - 4A 50 4E 57 31 31 01 39 ...RICOHJPNW11.9 23 00 8A 86 68 02 26 00 - 8A 86 70 02 28 00 8A 86 #...h.&...p.(... 6A 02 28 22 12 10 E0 00 - F0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 j.("............ 8:56:14 PM #18 SPTI -1066 File SCSIPassThrough.cpp, Line 179 CdRom0: SCSIStatus(x02) WinError(0) NeroError(-1066) Sense Key: 0x05 (KEY_ILLEGAL_REQUEST) Sense Code: 0x24 Sense Qual: 0x00 CDB Data: 0xDF 00 0F 02 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Sense Area: 0x70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 24 8:56:14 PM #19 Text 0 File DVDR.cpp, Line 6833 Drive: SONY DVD RW DRU-700A Book Type request [LO], rev 1: DVD-ROM Changing the Book Type was finished successfully, return code 0, Mode 2 return code -1066 8:56:14 PM #20 CDR -1207 File DVDR.cpp, Line 6212 Book Type automatically set to: DVD-ROM 8:56:14 PM #21 Text 0 File DVDPlusRW.cpp, Line 674 Start write address at LBA 0 DVD high compatibility mode: Yes 8:56:45 PM #22 Text 0 File WriterStatus.cpp, Line 113 <D: SONY DVD RW DRU-700A> start writing Lead-Out at LBA 36800 (8FC0h), length 0 blocks 8:56:46 PM #23 Text 0 File DVDR.cpp, Line 6833 Drive: SONY DVD RW DRU-700A Book Type request [LO], rev 1: DVD+RW Changing the Book Type was finished successfully, return code 0 8:56:46 PM #24 Phase 37 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1760 Burn process completed successfully at 4x (5,540 KB/s) 8:56:46 PM #25 Phase 78 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1760 Data verification started 8:57:14 PM #26 Phase 80 File dlgbrnst.cpp, Line 1760 Data verification completed successfully 8:57:15 PM #27 Text 0 File SCSIPTICommands.cpp, Line 254 SPTIDismountVolume - completed successfully for FSCTL_DISMOUNT_VOLUME 8:57:19 PM #28 Text 0 File Cdrdrv.cpp, Line 10529 DriveLocker: UnLockVolume completed 8:57:19 PM #29 Text 0 File SCSIPTICommands.cpp, Line 411 UnLockMCN - completed sucessfully for IOCTL_STORAGE_MCN_CONTROL Existing drivers: Registry Keys: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon\AllocateCDROMs : 0 (Security Option)
So it appears you need to Author a DVD to make it play on the Sony. On the MP3 vs Jukebox CD - don't think there is any difference. Your Sony obviously supports MP3 from CD-R (maybe CD-RW). The problem is that it doesn't support MP3 from DVD. It's not alone!MP3 playing from DVD is only recently (from looking at feature lists of players) becoming more commonly supported by DVD players.
So, it lay terms, what you are saying is that for what I want to do given my equipment, nero will not be able to meet my needs? If that is the case, without posting the question to the general forums, is there a recommended program that can create my audio-dvd disc besides audio-dvd creator and ulead burn?
Not saying Nero won't do it, because it can certainly can, but not what you want at the touch of a button. The December issue of Australian PC User has a front cover CD that includes free "Audio-DVD Jukebox" program. This takes a .wav, creates a background and title image, encodes the audio and muxes it all into MPEG-2 files. Makes an image on your hard drive and waits for you to pop a DVD in. Not that I'm suggesting you get Oz PC User, but I would expect something similar would be available freeware in your locale. Perhaps a question in the appropriate forum is a good idea.