Posted by WinField on 09/11/07 17:21

Linea Recta wrote:

> Last weekend has been a real burning battle over here. I had decided to put
> a series on 8 DL DVD's, and as I stated, these were 2.4 speed so it took up
> about 40 minutes per DVD. Burning completed fine and for the first time I
> could see the text switching from layer 1 to layer 2 in Nero.
> But... seeing is believing and after burning I started testing
> systematically. I had all the DVD's on hard disk in VIDEO_TS folders and all
> worked OK including menus.
> Unfortunately when I tested the last DVD, I did a very queer discovery: one
> episode played WITHOUT sound! So I thought I might have made a faulty DVD,
> since the same DVD/episode played WITH sound from harddisk. I decided to
> burn a new copy... but testing gave the same strange results!
> To make things even more bizarre I later on discovered that it will play
> with sound, only in my stand alone harddisk recorder. So, not on the
> standalone player, nor on both PC devices.
> Tested it today at my fathers place and... it seems to play fine in his
> harddisk recorder AND in his DVD player!
>
> Man, this is really confusing! (All other DL DVD's/episodes play OK and WITH
> sound in my other players). But, where's the logic???


Your discovery is mysterious, alright. Have you tried selecting another
audio track on the "silent" episode while playing it? Maybe the default
sound-track got switched around somehow.

That's all I can think of ...

- winf

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