I own a Pioneer DV-515 standalone player. I've been using it for 3 years and I played about 100 commercial DVD-videos (region 1&2) during this time and I had no single incident where my player did not play the DVD or some disturbances occured on the screen etc. I also made several VCDs and played with my 515 and few problems I had but usually it was more than OK. Lastly, I've captured a movie via my Canon digital camcorder and heaviliy edited inside Adobe premiere 6.5, dvd-encoded(average 7Mbit/sec, max 8Mbit/sec) with its built-in encoder, created two audio tracks, very simple menu and a small introduction movie and having created my project in reelDVD 3.0.3, I burnt it by my Pioneer DVR-105. It played perfect with CinePlayer but when I took it home and inserted into my Pioneer DV-515, it did not play. For a second or two my introduction movie appears, then it freezes. If I pause and play again, movie rolls for another 2-3 seconds then again it freezes. I used a DMS-brand(far east) DVD-R and burnt at 2x speed. Again, this DVD-R media gave me no problems at all with any data recording in my PC. How could I solve this problem? sincerely, ian
my first inclination is you need a new dvd player. in my experience most dvd players that are over 2 years old will not ready dvd-r's or dvd-rw's but they will read vcd's. i know you probably don't want to invest in a new player, but they are so cheap now, why not!? -tm
