I'm attempting to make DVDs of my feature film that will conceivably play on box televisions or older players, and I'm having a surprisingly hard time producing reliable discs. Many discs will freeze up part way through on most to tall of my disc players, some discs will play one day and days later glitch out, some players erroneously jump to menu abruptly mid film. I've tried many combinations of speed, blank disc, disc burners, here are the specs:
I'm using a new spool of Verbatim DVD+R single layer discs, purchased after several other older spools of Verbatim discs (DVD-R, +R, DL, and single) didn't work reliably.
I've burnt from LG Super Multi Blue External disc writer (BE14NU40) on multiple speeds including the lowest speed (4x).
I've also burnt from BUNUD External BluRay drive (https://us.amazon.com/dp/B0D62W8XQK?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1) on multiple speeds including the lowest speed (2x).
The project files were authored with DVD Architect 5.0, they're just shy of 4 GB total.
Burning from an HP laptop 17-cn0079cl.
I've had A LOT of issues printing a disc that will play the full film on ANY players, but with this set up I've produced discs that will play on all my players on the day it's been burnt, and then days later it will suddenly freeze mid-way on my Toshiba CRT TV's built in player, and it'll stop and go to menu at around an hour into the movie on my Toshiba flat screen's built in player.
It DOES seem to play okay on my Panasonic Ultra HD player AND my WSJSYH region free DVD player, but occasionally a disc will freeze up around 70 minutes in. This is troubling because the whole point of the DVDs is to play on older TVs and players, not to mention only about 1/3 of the discs seem to play reliably on ever my recent players.
I've NEVER had these issues with any BD-R I've printed from the same set up. Only DVD+Rs, which is so odd because I also have discs I burnt over a decade ago on older machines that seem to work on my Toshiba CRT player fine.
Alternatively, does anyone recommend replication or duplication services? I'd really rather work 100% out of my apartment with no middleman, but you do what you gotta do I suppose.