Older (Version 1?) Blu-Ray + Homemade DVDs - Help!

[Frontier]

So back around Thanksgiving, got a black friday deal on a Blu-Ray player. Come to find it won't play my homemade DVDs on it; it brings up the menu, and then abruptly shuts down.

Other night, my nephew brought over one of his movies on a homemade DVD and to my surprise, it played.

So my question is... what could be the source of conflict between an earlier (version 1, I think?) blu-ray and homemade DVDs?

Is it the menu? His dvd didn't have a menu, it began the film when put in the player. Could it be the format? I've not been able to get the built-in Windows DVD burner to work for me because of some codec issue with me having Vista 64, but that's what was used for his movie, the built in win-dvd burner.

 

[The Fatman]

So back around Thanksgiving, got a black friday deal on a Blu-Ray player. Come to find it won't play my homemade DVDs on it; it brings up the menu, and then abruptly shuts down.

Other night, my nephew brought over one of his movies on a homemade DVD and to my surprise, it played.

So my question is... what could be the source of conflict between an earlier (version 1, I think?) blu-ray and homemade DVDs?

Is it the menu? His dvd didn't have a menu, it began the film when put in the player. Could it be the format? I've not been able to get the built-in Windows DVD burner to work for me because of some codec issue with me having Vista 64, but that's what was used for his movie, the built in win-dvd burner.

My first thought, check the type of disc itself. This shouldn't be an issue, but your player may only support DVD-R and not DVD+R (or vice versa)

After that, can the discs play in any other device? My Vista 32 bit system sometimes doesn't finalize properly, so the discs are only usable in that same PC. If that's the case, try using Nero or some 3rd party burning software.

 

[Jadzia]

My first thought, check the type of disc itself. This shouldn't be an issue, but your player may only support DVD-R and not DVD+R (or vice versa)

I'll second this. +R was designed to be more compatible with standard players.

If the disc didn't finalise, I doubt the player would get to a menu stage. I expect it would see it as a broken disc and not mount it.