Clear Slide show required!

Look on the DVD and report back to us what types of files were written to it - ie., what suffixes. There should be a folder with a name like video_ts and it should have files that end in .vob. If not, then you did not write a movie DVD.

Let us know about the names and suffixes on the files.

I use easy CD/DVD creator by roxio. I do these often of church events and they are shown on a large screen via video projector. Although they are crisper on a TV they are very acceptable by our viewers.

I compared the DVD I burned to another one that does play on my DVD player and noted the following differences:

The one that does play contains the following file names within the VIDEO_TS
sub-directory:

VIDEO_TS.BUP
VIDEO_TS.IFO
VIDEO_TS.VOB
VTS_01_0.BUP
VTS_01_0.IFO
VTS_01_0.VOB
VTS_01_1.VOB
VTS_02_0.BUP
VTS_02_0.IFO
VTS_02_0.VOB
VTS_02_1.VOB

The one created with ProShow Gold is the same but has two files missing:

VTS_01_0.VOB
VTS_02_0.VOB

Anyone know if this is significant? Photodex didn't think so but then they haven't been able to offer any solution yet either!

Try the DVD in a few more players... make sure you select NTSC or PAL correctly... use standard quality DVD not high quality... try a different brand/type of media.. that's all I can think of right now.

When you get ready to render the show, does the program give you a choice of quality. Proshow gold does. Be sure you check highest quality. It takes longer to render but has better results. I know I overlooked this before. I love proshow gold. I just upgraded to the new 2.6 version.

Thanks, I'll try a few more things but I'm beginning to lose confidence in my DVD drive. It may be an intermittant hardware fault, because half the time the DVD writing function goes into error (even if the resulting file appears readable).