DVD Copy Problem

[desertmangolf]

Okay, I'm frustrated. After making many "home" DVDs using Premiere Elements 1.0, I completed my first "home" DVD using Premiere Elements 2.0. My project is approximately 13 minutes in length and includes video, stills and some rolling titles (subject - my 10 year old grandson's first music concert). I burned the project as an auto-play DVD with no Menues on a +R DVD and it's about 1 Gig. The DVD plays nicely on a very inexpensive DVD player hooked to my TV. Now my son who lives 1000 miles from me would like to make some copies for other band members. He has been unsuccessful making copies using a program like Roxio disc copy. Shouldn't this work?

Now wanting to be helpful, I burned another DVD direct from PE2 and tried to copy it using Roxio 7. No luck! In fact my computer (Dell XPS with a lot of bells and whistles) will not even play the Disc on my computer (it says there is no disc loaded)?????? Remember it works fine on my cheap DVD player.

Okay, next I went back and reburned the project. This time with a simple one button DVD menu. Same thing. It plays nicely on the DVD player/TV setup but not on my XPS system and would not copy.

Now, hoping to 'shed more light' on the problem (and just to frustrate myself even more) I booted up my Vaio T250 laptop. Surprise, surprise the DVD with the simple menu plays on the Vaio but the DVD with no menu does not. More confusion and frustration.

There seems to be a several issues in "play". My main concern is how a person (my son in case) make copies a PE2 made DVD. I'd like comments on the other issues as well.

Thanks for your help!

[Baden]

I woudl suggest going out and buying a few DVD-R's and trying it with those. It may not make any differnce but I have had compatiibility problems with DVD+Rs and when I switched to -Rs all those problems went away.

The main problem is that some DVD players will not read DVD+R disks so you're better off with DVD-Rs.

It's also possible that your DVD burner is at fault.



Baden

[tfry]

Baden hit the nail on the head :)
I'm betting it's the +R instead of the burner tho. As for copies you will need to make the copies for them as when you encode them as a DVD it's not like copying data files from a DVD. There is also "rip type" software that could be used, but I don't have any experience with it.

[queentingli]

i usually use dvd copy tools at http://www.yaodownload.com/video-design/dvdcopy/ :D

[javier]

I use DVDFabDEcrypter for hard to copy DVDs it's a free app and you can find it here http://www.videohelp.com/ you'll find a lot of usefull info regarding audio and video and lots of programs hope this helps.

[aciddrop]

I'm use DVD Cloner III (http://www.el-software.com/DVD/DVD-CLONER.htm) to copy dvd. It's esay of use and more powerfull in latests version. :)