Encore 2 and older DVD players

I'm resigned to figuring out why discs burned with encore 2 can only fast forward 2x in our player (player's a few years old) while the same brand of discs are burned with Pinnacle's "Impression" software and those discs can fast forward to your heart's content (2x, 4x, 8x, etc.). There must be a different way encore burns discs as opposed to impression. I'm wondering if there are parameters I can set in Encore to be a bit more old DVD player friendly.
Anyone have any clues or come across this before? TIA!
Dave

Hi, John. Those are good thoughts. It wouldn't be the bitrate affecting this since our NLE software is making the mpg files before it gets to either burning software. The brands of the discs are the same so that's not it either. The burn speed is a possibility as I do think Encore (being newer) is burning the discs faster than impression can. Does burning discs at a faster speed affect how quickly you can fast forward and rewind them after they're authored? It doesn't seem like it would at first glance but maybe there's something going on under the hood that would make this true.
Dave

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I don't think you are going to find a single solution to this problem. Just about every DVD player is going to have problems with some brands or types of recordable DVDs. Some things to consider or try:
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I just watched The Keynote presentation for 2008 and saw that there is a new software update that revolutionizes the Apple TV. The first idea that came to mind is the battle between Blu-Ray and HD DVD. With the HD capabilities of the Apple TV now and Dolby Digital 5.1 support, would it be safe to say that, if one wasn't worried about having a hard copy of the HD movie, the Apple TV could be an alternative to the battle of the current generation of formats?
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No rhyme or reason... but tried one more time after putting back my old copy of idvd 06 with my oldest themes in it, and I now have DVD's that will play on regular DVD players!
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Thinking that it might be the slow DVD, I purchased a LaCie external DVD but now can not get iDVD to recognize the LaCie burner.
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Thanks for the help. I was able to get iDVD to recognize the new DVD hardware by simply loading a new DVD into the drive and responding to the question screen concerning what to do with the blank DVD. I was also able to burn the project and make it work with a computer and two DVD players that I have access to. Unfortunately, the brides parent's DVD player basically stops playing the music during the waterdrop transitions I was able to drop the transition and burn a new DVD and all worked fine.
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