I tried using Ashampoo Burning Studio 7 to burn an AVI of Cold Mountain. The movie's about 2.5 hours long, and it gave me an error saying the movie was too long for the disc. Now, on my blank DVDs it says they can hold up to 4 hours of video. I've also got ConvertXtoDVD, but I haven't tried using that yet. Should I try it, or is there some way I can get Ashampoo to burn my movie?
Okay, I got it to burn using ConvertXtoDVD. The Quality is perfect, though about 25-30 minutes in it's starting to stop and go every few seconds. It's like it's freezing for just a second or two, then starting again. Is there some sort of settings I need to change, or a different way of encoding and converting it?
What are you burning? Is it single or double layer disc. Does your converted file play OK on computer? Either way your problem sounds like a disc quality. What brand of DVD disc are you using?
It's a single layer Maxxell DVD+R. The AVI file plays great on my cpu, but after converted it turns into an audo_ts and video_ts folder which I don't know how to play to see the quality.
If you have any software player like Nero, Power DVD, name a few, or VLC(free one), just open it and find your VIDEO_TS folder click OK and it will play, Window Media Player come with Windows, but sometime get stuck on non commercial DVD files.
OK, the Video_TS folder plays perfectly on my computer, so maybe it's the way i'm burning it? I have the write speed down to 1x to reduce errors and when it encoded i had it take the longest time for the highest quality. are there any other settings I should change to make the burn quality better?
Get ImgBurn(free) and burn VIDEO_TS folder. Try to get Verbatim DVD-R for your project. Burning at half speed is usualy OK. If you have DVD-RW, try to burn that first and see if it play OK on your computer, may not play on stand alone. Also try to play Maxell DVD you made on your computer to see if it does the same thing as on DVD player.
How silly of me not to think of that. I put the disc in my computer and it plays through perfectly without errors. So it has to be my DVD player. Thank you very much Suba for all your help.
DVD players are often pickier than DVD Drives. Maxell is made by several different manufacturers so getting consistently good ones is the luck of the draw. You will probably have good results if you used Verbatim disks burned at half their rated speed.
Like olyteddy say. Your test only prove that a file and DVD is burned fine. The problem is that most if not all stand alone players are picky about DVD burnable brands, you just have to figure out what is good for your player. Good start is Verbatim or Taiyo Yuden brands.
