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musicvid10 wrote on 12/12/2009, 6:09 PM
You are reporting your personal experience.

It does not necessarily mesh with the experience of others, certainly not mine. In fact, I have never had a problem with DVDA Pro 4 or 5.

By that, I mean not a single coaster (except with some 'clearance table' media). Three burners, five players of my own, maybe 300 discs out the door in the last couple of years, +R, -R, RW, DL, and not one complaint, with the note that I do not "routinely" produce DL with the presumption that it can be played by others.

The short version is this: I, nor the people I produce DVDs for have never reported problems with FF or Chapter Skip using DVDA-burnt discs. Never.

Are you using an ATAPI burner? is DMA enabled? Is the firmware up to date? Are you letting the software pick your break point or are you trying to second-guess?
My '"usual" burner is a $26 Optiarc OEM. Going on four years now.
TOG62 wrote on 12/13/2009, 5:29 AM
It would be interesting to know the make & model of player you're having problems with.

Mike
musicvid10 wrote on 12/13/2009, 6:58 AM
So what conclusion would you come up with if;

I would conclude that there are many possible reasons for the behavior and not enough information. One would need to rule out the other possibilities using common troubleshooting techniques and be able to reproduce the behavior on different Windows boxes with different burners and the same version of DVDA in order to float the conclusion that there is something wrong with DVDA. It would also be helpful to test the result on more than just one specific player. I really do sympathize with your problem, but three threads? Nothing personal about it on this end.
musicvid10 wrote on 12/13/2009, 9:44 AM
Panasonic has just released new firmware for your player:
http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/bd/download/bd60/index2_na.html

I have no earthly clue if this relates to your specific problem, but discussion threads on the internet indicate that this update was issued specifically to fix playback freezes for your model of player.
johnmeyer wrote on 12/14/2009, 4:48 PM
namely you cannot FF or skip Chapters.I have exactly this same problem. It began about eighteen months ago.

However, I tracked it down, and in my case it is a problem with my Pioneer DV-525 DVD player. It still plays the discs just fine, but the navigation is all screwed up. I have another Pioneer player, and everything works just fine there. Also, this same Pioneer used to play all the discs just fine.

So, you definitely need to try different media (Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim -- everything else is not good enough) and different players.

You don't need to lower your burning speed UNLESS you are burning at 16x. If so, reduce that to 8x.
TOG62 wrote on 12/15/2009, 3:34 AM
Did you try authoring with DVDA and burning with another app., such as Nero or ImgBurn? I can't see why it would help, but it might be worth trying.

Mike
TheHappyFriar wrote on 12/15/2009, 5:55 AM
idea: rip the imovie DVD & re-burn it in windows & your DVDA DVD & re-burn it in osx. That will deduce if it's DVDA's encoding or not. If the imovie DVD doesn't work with a windows burn but the dvda DVD works with a mac burn, then it's the OS. Also maybe try putting your DVD on a drive (external, USB, DVD disc as data) & then burning that in a Mac & see what happens, and vice versa.

But if you said it won't work properly if you use Nero or imgburn either? That screams Windows issue to me. Everything uses the same basic drivers & those could of been messed up.
plekkie wrote on 12/15/2009, 12:59 PM
Do the "faulty" DVDs created with DVDA play OK in other DVD players, and in software players like PowerDVD, so in other words, does the next function and FF on the DVD made by DVDA work at all?

If no, what are the settings you used for your remote buttons, in "menu page properties", tab "remote buttons"?
Paul Masters wrote on 12/19/2009, 9:17 AM
As you know different players may operate differently for the same disc.
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I had a simular problem, I think it was DVDA4a.
I have, and still do, use the same RW disc for tests. I have used it many times and played fine on the same real player.
DVDA4a come along and would write it but it would not play as it had may, many times before.
Sony said, as usual, "try different media". I told them it had worked with the prior release but wouldn't work now,so it must be something with DVDA. Sony, of course said it was not.
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Along came DVDA4b and - you guessed it - the RW disk was working again and has been since. But -of coures- Sony didn't do anything because this 'fix' was not mentioned in the release notes.
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(I also have a multiple angle project that when video 1 is rendered as AVI in V8 and DVDA 4.5 or 5 is used, they won't write the disc folder - get errors right at the end of the build. But rendering video 1 as AVI in V7 and using DVDA4b works OK. I didn't even bother to report that.)
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Paul Masters