Re: Trouble playing DVDs burnt with FFmpeg and dvdauthor on physical DVD players

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--- On Sat, 9/10/11, Greg Farough <gregf@riseup.net> wrote:

> From: Greg Farough <gregf@riseup.net>
> Subject: Trouble playing DVDs burnt with FFmpeg and dvdauthor on physical DVD players
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Saturday, September 10, 2011, 8:19 PM
> Hey, all. I've lately been trying to
> make backups of files in various media formats to DVD, using
> FFmpeg and dvdauthor. The resulting DVD plays excellently on
> my laptop DVD player with MPlayer and VLC, but suffers from
> incessant skips on the two commercial DVD players (i.e.
> hooked to a television) that I've attempted to play them on.
> This happens with every file and disc that I've tried.
> 
> My process for encoding/burning is this:
> 
> ffmpeg -i test.avi -target ntsc-dvd test.mpg
> dvdauthor -t test.mpg -o dvd/
> dvdauthor -T -o dvd/
> growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video -speed=4 dvd/
> 
> Normally I would imagine that I was simply burning the disc
> too quickly, but 4x seems reasonable, and this doesn't
> explain why the DVD plays well on my laptop. I use
> single-layer Memorex DVD-Rs, but have also tried Verbatim to
> no avail.
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> PS: MPlayer's output when playing the DVD rarely complains
> of sync errors, but doesn't hinder playback in any way.
> 

For many years I have been editing video in Avidemux and using their 'auto DVD' option to create compatible mpg.  Then I build ISOs with a nice menu in DVDStyler.  No problem with any DVD player connected to a TV or computer.