Problem with VHS to DVD everything, following, situation, settings, usually

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I am trying to transfer some of my daughter's old warner bros VHS tapes to DVD and I am facing the following strange situation:
I capture with DC10+ under Win2000 using Pinnacle Studio 7.13.6
The resulting avi's are then frame served (using Abobe Premiere 6 and Videoserver) to CCE 2.62.
In CCE 2.62 I am using the same settings I usually use for DVD backup (more or less).
I then create the DVD image using Scenarist.

Till this point everything works fine. The strange situation starts here.

When I burn in DVD+RW (using my HP200i) the DVD plays fine in the Pioneer 525 but NOT in the HP200i !!!!!
Can you imagine that ??? When I insert the DVD+RW back into the same drive that burned the DVD, it is not recognised, while it is readable by the standalone. However PowerDVD 4.0 can read the image from the hard disk (but not from the DVD+RW).

Trying to write to DVD+R produces DVD's that are un-readable by both the 200i and the standalone.

I have, till now, made several DVD backup's (DVD+R and DVD+RW) and I almost never experienced a failure.

The problem is only with source material from VHS tapes.

Any ideas???

Warm regards

Pothitos M. Baikas

intersting problem

back when you were encoding, i see you frameserved the DC10+ capture (which is a MJPEG avi) to CCE, where i think you could have openend the avi natively in CCE instead. just a time saver hint for you.

as for the reading problem, you didnt happen to pick a region code for the dvd that the drive isnt setup to read?

Enf...

Originally posted by auenf
i see you frameserved the DC10+ capture (which is a MJPEG avi) to CCE, where i think you could have openend the avi natively in CCE instead. just a time saver hint for you.I do it because of the resize feature, plus the capability to cut unwanted stuff. Thanks for the hint anyway.

I did some more experiments by the way and I also loaded the new bios for my DVD writer. The problem seems to be solved when using +RW. I cannot experiment with +R's, since I run out of disks. Have to wait for a new delivery.

As far as the other issue you suggested (region), both are set to region 2

Any new results shall be posted

Thanks anyway

Regards

Pothitos M. Baikas