[Dvdauthor-users] DVDs don't play on all players ...

[Jim D. <ji...@du...>]

I've digitized some old videos for a friend of mine.  I've created the 
DVD using dvdStyler and dvdAuthor.  The DVD plays fine on my DVD player, 
however, it won't play on my friends "Samsung Progressive Scan DVD" 
player, which is a combo VCD-DVD player.

I know there are some compatiblity problems, however, I don't know how 
to go about debugging this problem.  I'm hoping someone can point me in 
the proper direction.

I digitized the video using a PVR-350.

I use this script to convert the PVR-350 to an mpg for dvdAuthor.

$1 is the input mpg file, $2 is the destination directory

base=`basename $1 .mpg`
mkfifo $2/aud0
mkfifo $2/vid0
mpeg2desc -a0 < $1 > $2/aud0 &
mpeg2desc -v0 < $1 > $2/vid0 &
mplex -f 8 -V -o $2/${base}.mpg $2/aud0 $2/vid0
rm $2/aud0
rm $2/vid0

Is use the resulting mpg file as the input to dvdStyler

My .dvdstyler file looks like this:

Version=1.4
[Interface]
Language=56
FileBrowserDir=/local/DVD/files
DefMenuFormat=1
[wxWindows]
[wxWindows/wxFileDialog]
ViewStyle=16
ShowHidden=0
[Generate]
TempDir=/local/DVD/tmp
Jpeg2MpegCmd=jpegtopnm "$FILE_IN" | ppmtoy4m -S 420jpeg -n 1 -I t -L 
$FRAME_RATE | mpeg2enc -f 9 -b $BITRATE -o "$FILE_OUT" $VIDEO_NORM
[Iso]
SaveTo=/local/DVD/DVD.img
Cmd=mkisofs -udf -o "$FILE" -dvd-video -V "ASHMAN 1" "$DIR"
[MainWin]
x=0
y=26
width=1280
height=951
[Preview]
Do=0

The resulting DVD player will play with xine, mplayer, vlc, and DAEWOO 
DVD player, some others which my friend tried (neighbors), however, not 
on the Samsung Progressive Scan DVD player.

Any pointers on which switches might affect this would be greatly 
appreciated.

Jim