Re: A DVD that only runs on some players

Michael Shell wrote:
>
>    
>> AFIK, the DVD is at the base compliance described in the wikibooks DVD
>> limits page and it still hangs the the Sony BDP-370. Is there a further
>> restriction on Blu-Ray players that also play DVDs?
>>      
>
> I'm not an expert on DVD authoring, but might I suggest the problem be
> divided into two possibilities:
>
>   1. a problem related to the complexity or configuration of the DVD menu
>      structure
>   2. a problem related to some of the video streams from the webcam
>
>
> I would take an mpeg stream from some other source - maybe a different
> video camera, or even an extraction from a commercial DVD. Then, using
> copies or symlinks, recreate the names of files you would use for 4
> months of webcam monitoring events and make a DVD from that as you
> normally would do. Thus, you a making a DVD using a single known good
> mpeg clip, but with all the complexity and structure of one of your
> webcam monitoring DVDs. Does the problem happen then? If so, then
> the problem is with the DVD authoring or the player. If not, it may
> be some type of problem with the webcam mpeg stream itself that trips a
> bug/weakness in the player. In that case, you might have to transcode
> to clean them up.
The above DVD plays correctly in my other DVD player, so I doubt there 
is a problem with the mpeg stream.

That said, I will strip out any extraneous titles and see if that may be 
the problem. There are only 35 titles per titleset, way below the 99 limit.

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