DVD+R Chapter playback

[ETHERED]

My new Blue ray BDP-S6700 will only  playback the first chapter of any of my recorded TDK DVD+R recordings.  So since the "death" of my old DVD recorder/player I have lost decades of video memories.  Since the first chapter of any disc will play I have no reason to believe there is a problem with the recording format, other than the way the chapters have been created. Can anyone advise if there is a solution to this?

[Sean_Mc]

Hi ETHERED, 

Welcome to the Sony Community.

Please take a look here for some troubleshooting assistance which may offer some help.

Let me know how you get on.

Cheers,

Sean Mc

[Sonyvores]

DVD+R use a special way to write on the disc. Because unllike DVD-R, you can keep playing/writing on the disc and don't need to finalize it with the dedicated PLayer/Recorder. The down side of it is that if you haven't finalized the Disc, it is not compatible with all dvd players..

It's probaly what's happenning to you.

Unfortunatly, BDP-S6700 is not fully compatible with DVD+R disc that are not finalized

[ETHERED]

It has been many years since I recordedmy DVD+R discs, and although I cannot be 100% certain that I finalised the discs I vaguely remember doing so after they had been filled to capacity. I can actually see and play all chapters on my i-Mac through my apple superdrive.

I am not particularly technically competent in these matters but If the discs were not finalised could they still play the first chapter on my Sony S 6700 and all cahapters through my apple superdrive?

[Sonyvores]

yes, usually when not finalised a player (not fully DVD+R compatible) plays only first "title" (and not chapter) and can't read the next title since it's not finalised

Computer drive can usually play all kind of discs

[ETHERED]

Been away for the last two weeks so havn't read  "Sonyvores" reply until now.

Have just tried to play a different DVD+R disc that I recorded at the same time as my problematic DVD+R disc.  Surprisingly it did continuously play all chapters one after the other.    

However I cannot select separate chapters so that I can choose a specific chapter to playback !

I can fast forward through all chapters though to get to any desired chapter.  

I really do believe that I did finalise all seven of my DVD+R discs that I copied from VHS compact discs.

I will have plat all seven of my DVD+R discs to see how each play on my Sony 6700

[Sonyvores]

no worries,

but is it chapters or titles?  it's important to know for your issue, but as I said, th eplayer is not fully compatible with DVD+R ...so playback will be random ^^

We're just trying to figure out why here hehe

[ETHERED]

I am not sure what the difference is between chapters and titles but when I recorded onto the DVD+R discs the Panasonic DVD recorder defined them as chapters.


Also when I play them on my apple i-Mac via my apple superdrive it to defines them as chapters.


Things a bit up in the air for me at the minute but when I get some time I will try out all my other recorded DVD+R discs and hopefully I will be able to view all chapters if only continuously or by fast forwarding through them.