A friend gave me a DVD with both a slideshow and a video on it (select one or the other at the initial menu). This DVD works fine in both a computer and in a TV's DVD player.

I copy it with k3b and on a computer the copy works fine, I can select either the video or the slideshow and it plays.

Put the copy in the TV's DVD player, however, and regardless of what I try to select at the initial menu, it only plays the slideshow.

Any ideas?

Perhaps it was a poorly made copy. Did you run the "verify written data" check on the disk when you made it? Did you try it in any other machines?

Burning a DVD at high speed can sometimes cause read-error problems, especially if the media is inferior. I had this happen once when I burned a test disk at the maximum speed of the drive; the video failed to operate properly in my set-top box, skipping and freezing. But when I burned the final version at the slowest speed possible, it worked perfectly.

Finally, some stand-alone players, especially older ones, don't like certain kinds of recordable media. Some don't like DVD-R, for example, while others might choke on DVD+R. Every player is a little different.

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The copy burn was at a fixed 2x normal speed. I did not verify the burn. The copy works well (meaning I can make a menu choice and it will play the chosen selection) in every computer I've tried, and plays nicely.

just won't play in stand-alone DVD players hooked up to a TV.

Other DVDs that I burn play in the stand-alone DVD player, but they don't have the slideshow option at the initial menu selection.

Thanks.