Replaying Elements DVDs?

[briang24532879]

I have many DVDs of family, mostly 10 - 15 yrs old, prepared on Premier Elements. On now replaying on various TVs they freeze after about  30 mins running. Can then only advance frame by frame. All were good on first production and quality on replay remains as for the original. No visual evidence of disc damage.

Very frustrating and disappointing. Has anyone suggestions on nature and  how to overcome the problem?

[Bill Sprague]

When were the DVDs made and with what version of Premiere Elements?

[briang24532879]

Most around 2007-8, probably with v12. some with v.3.

[Peru Bob]

Do they play OK on a computer?

[briang24532879]

The discs will not load on a computer, I believe due to copyright  conflicts-

[Peru Bob]

briang24532879  wrote

The discs will not load on a computer, I believe due to copyright  conflicts-

If the disc was copy protected, it would still play if you have a DVD drive and player software.   Copy protection disables the ability to copy it, not play it.

You may have bad discs.

If you don't have VLC Player, download it and see if it will play the disc:

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

[Ann Bens]

Maybe the dvd drive needs flashing.

[Bill Sprague]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Ann+Bens  wrote

Maybe the dvd drive needs flashing.

What is "flashing a DVD drive"?

[Ann Bens]

Firmware update.