dvd hesitates on set top player

billynmi wrote on 4/14/2006, 7:23 PM

Has any one out there had this problem? I have made over 100 dvds using VMS and DVD Arch and have not had any problems playing them on my set top player. Well this week I had a problem. I generated a dvd of football games and when playing on my player it would pause for a couple of seconds and then continue on. It did this more than once . After 2 of these dvds I tried a different brand and same problem on one of four. I tried a DVD+RW a couple of times and no problem. Do I have a Burner problem,player problem or what. I played the dvd files on Power DVD and did not see a problem. However when I played the burned dvd on Power DVD I had the same problem so it looks like either a burner problem or for some reason it does not like certain dvd brands now. I have burned over 50 of the first brand and no problem. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Billy

Comments

rustier wrote on 4/17/2006, 6:00 PM

I haven't had the problem but you might consider the source of the original video. If this problem only occurs with your footbal video it might have some bad areas - perhaps you are dropping some frames without realizing it.

If your burner works with "virgin" video I would say that this may be your problem. Sometimes there are bad video discs - but I don't think that happens too often (unless you get very old cheap discs to save a few bucks - which I have done - knowing I will have to throw a few away.

billynmi wrote on 4/18/2006, 8:05 PM

Thanks Rustier I don't think that any frames were dropped because when I play the dvd file on PowerDVD It plays thru with no problems. I digitized the original VHS tape by copying to my DV camcorder and then uploaded to my computer via firewire. I find it interesting that I have not had any problems when I burn to a Memorex DVD + RW. The DVDs that I had problems were Verbatim and Spin-X DVD+R. This is the first time that Ihave burned a DVD with a lot of action. Do you think that this has something to do with my problem? Thanks again

Billy

Chienworks wrote on 4/19/2006, 4:16 AM

You mention a lot of action. Did you use a higher bitrate this time than you have before? What bitrate did you use? Most DVD players can't sustain more than about 9Mbps. If you have a lot of action and used a high average bitrate you may hit peaks higher than the player can handle. Most commercial DVDs are encoded with an average bitrate around 6Mbps with peaks no higher than 8Mbps.

billynmi wrote on 4/19/2006, 11:11 AM

Thanks Kelly for your reply. Since the video was only about fifteen minutes long I encoded(rendered) in VMS and let VMS chose the bit rate. I am not sure what rate that VMS uses. Based on your reply I think that I will pass the avi file to DVD Arch and chose a bit rate around 8 Mbps and see if this will make a difference. If I had to guess it probably will not. What I meant by a lot of action was the video is mostly football plays.Thanks again for your interest.

Billy

Doyle wrote on 6/27/2006, 11:54 AM

I have had this happen on two different DVD players. They were both cheapies and when switched out, the DVD I burn't played fine. The more expensive players have better filters that make them work with "less" than professional quality.

billynmi wrote on 6/27/2006, 7:11 PM

I had a friend that suggested that maybe one of the lazers was having a problem so I replaced the burner with a Sony and have generated several DVDs with no problems . So I will have to assume that my friend was right and after a length of time these burners will start to have problems. Thanks for your interest.

Billy