Recorded DVD-ROM problem

[jorde]

I've just recorded a DVD-ROM with something like 70 folders, totaling something like 700 files. Now the problem I have is when I try to read it in my PC drive or DVD player. Some PC DVD players could read its contents, but cannot play a single file, my DVD+R drive (where I recorded it) reads it as a blank CD ( ), a friend's DVD drive can also read the root directory, but cannot access any subdirectory, and my DVD player can read the files, but cannot play them.

Now, could the problem be because of having so many folders/files? Is there a way to avoid that behaviour?

 

[Reno]

I would say too many folders.

 

[Strontium_Dog]

Could be any number of things. DVD burning can be problematical. I had a similar thing some time ago, with my (then) brand new 52x CD writer. Tried a disc, it would'nt work in anything else, only the drive that burnt it would read it. A few questions might help here.

What is the make and model of your DVD burner?
What brand discs are you using?
What speed are you burning at?
What software are you using to burn?
What O/S are you running?

Answering these might help narrow down the problem.

 

[jorde]

Could be any number of things. DVD burning can be problematical. I had a similar thing some time ago, with my (then) brand new 52x CD writer. Tried a disc, it would'nt work in anything else, only the drive that burnt it would read it. A few questions might help here.

What is the make and model of your DVD burner?
What brand discs are you using?
What speed are you burning at?
What software are you using to burn?
What O/S are you running?

Answering these might help narrow down the problem.

*Lite On.. can't remember it's model right now, and I'm not at my computer so I cant look for it.
*HP
*2x
Nero 6.something (cant remember that )
*Win XP

BTW, I recorded some more DVDs in the same computer. The more similar to this one (a compilation of "random" files, instead of a video DVD) is one I made with mpg vids, which got something around 70 - 100 files and I could read it with no problem anywhere I tried it.

 

[Strontium_Dog]

Hang on, did you try to make a disc that's viewable in a standalone DVD player?
Did you try to make a 'Video Disc', using that option in Nero?

If so, it won't work like that, I'm afraid.

To make a Video DVD, you need to do a number of things.
First off, the Video files all need to be MPEG-2, with a bitrate between 1000 - 10,000. The audio can be almost anything really.
The files need to be structered correctly, to make it Video DVD compliant. This is extremly complicated, as it involves creating .ifo files, which contain all the information about regioning, chapter points, program chains etc. etc. that a Video DVD need in order to work. .VOB files, which contain the movie streams. Your best bet for this is to use DVD building software, as it does it for you.
You also need to burn it as a data disc, not a video disc. A DVD player is basically a very specialised computer, that reads the same UDF discs as computers do. A Video disc is something else entierly.

If you're looking to make a DVD that's full of .mpeg clips, that can be viewed on a computer, just burn it as a data disc, and it should work, although I'd simplify the directories, as it may be taking too long to read it all. IDE (I'm guessing the drives are through this) is'nt the quickest at data transfer, and too much to search through could cause problems.

 

[jorde]

Hang on, did you try to make a disc that's viewable in a standalone DVD player?
Did you try to make a 'Video Disc', using that option in Nero?

If so, it won't work like that, I'm afraid.

To make a Video DVD, you need to do a number of things.
First off, the Video files all need to be MPEG-2, with a bitrate between 1000 - 10,000. The audio can be almost anything really.
The files need to be structered correctly, to make it Video DVD compliant. This is extremly complicated, as it involves creating .ifo files, which contain all the information about regioning, chapter points, program chains etc. etc. that a Video DVD need in order to work. .VOB files, which contain the movie streams. Your best bet for this is to use DVD building software, as it does it for you.
You also need to burn it as a data disc, not a video disc. A DVD player is basically a very specialised computer, that reads the same UDF discs as computers do. A Video disc is something else entierly.

If you're looking to make a DVD that's full of .mpeg clips, that can be viewed on a computer, just burn it as a data disc, and it should work, although I'd simplify the directories, as it may be taking too long to read it all. IDE (I'm guessing the drives are through this) is'nt the quickest at data transfer, and too much to search through could cause problems.

Nah... you didnt understand me on the first part, I think. I did make a DVD with mpg files, which I didnt mean to make readable from a DVD player: some files would be played, I think, but many are in either avi, rm, mov or some other movie format, which a DVD player cannot read. The computer does, and that's enough. What was the most similar aspect of this one to the one I'm now trying to burn, is that it's got a ton of files (not as many, as this are big video files for the most part), and not as many directories. (Just a bit less than 10, I think)

Then I also recorded a Video DVD, which I downloaded with the right file structure and everything, and I still got no problem with it.

Now I'm getting problems, probably because I'm trying to burn a compilation of about 700 files with around 70 directories. I think I'll try to make every directory a zip file, so that the entire disc would contain just a couple of directories and around 70 files... It won't be as easy to access the files then (mostly mp3s, which could have been read from any DVD player), but it would work, hopefully

Thanks for your help, and if there is anything else you can tell me which would help me on this, I would appreciate it.

 

[Strontium_Dog]

Ah, now I get you.

I have a couple of DVD roms, full of movie clips (don't know how many are on each, a couple of hundred), and they work fine. But they are just all stuffed in one big directory. It does sound like too many directories.