DVD not working on new DVD player? Stutters

wgkenney wrote on 12/7/2004, 2:10 PM

Hi all,

I just upgraded my DVD player to a Pioneer System. It plays movie DVD's fine, CD's fine, homemade CD's fine.

But it is not liking my Homemade DVD's. The DVD are -r and the player accepts -r. When I put the DVD in the menus come up fine, background music is there, and I can navigate the menus fine.

If I just start at the beginning it will play for a little while then the sound will skip or the video will hang for a second and start again. I sometimes get blocky video as well.

When I navigate back into the menus and select a chapter and start, I get the problem almost right away.

These DVD's work fine in my computer and on my older Samsung DVD/VHS player.

I am using Vegas 5 and DVD Architect 1.0. I'm doing all the av to dvd to burning functions with the this combo. So Im not using a seperate program for encoding or burning.

Any thoughts on what is causing this?

Comments

ScottW wrote on 12/7/2004, 6:28 PM

Could be your player - you might want to check around the net, there are a few web sites that have compatability lists of -R media with various players.

Also could be your media; have you tried another brand (what brand did you use)?

--Scott

riredale wrote on 12/7/2004, 10:33 PM

If the Pioneer player is of recent vintage, then I would suspect two possibilities:

(1) bitrate too high
Even though 9.8Mb/sec is the legal limit for video+audio, many say a player has a harder time reading burned media than the regular pressed media you find at Blockbuster. I personally never go higher than 8Mb/sec for the average, with a low of 0 and a high of 9 (when encoding VBR).

(2) crummy media
Making DVDs is still not a slam-dunk, and some brands are far better than others. I personally swear by Ritek G04 (4x) or G05 (8x) media, which can be bought on the web for around $0.40 a disk. My compatibility troubles disappeared once I switched.

wgkenney wrote on 12/8/2004, 5:27 AM

Thanks Scott - I'm coming to the conclusion that it might be my media. My computer DVDs all seem to be pretty forgiving, the old Samsung would glitch every now and then, but it was not bad. The new pioneer (DV-45a) just doesn't like it at all.

I was using a memorx brand. The Media ID appears to be prodisc. I will hunt down the compatiblity lists and see what works.

Thanks for you input.

wgkenney wrote on 12/8/2004, 5:33 AM

riredale - The bitrate is good feedback. I need to check my settings but 4500 sticks in my mind as my average VBR. I need to verify the settings.

Others have suggested my media as well. Is Ritek the Media ID or the brand? What brands would use the Ritek G04 and G05?

Any help would be great.

Glenn

Jay Gladwell wrote on 12/8/2004, 5:40 AM

Glenn, Ritek (RiData US brand) is a brand. The difference between the G04 and the G05 is the burn speed, 4x and 8x respectively. It works in everything.

Check out SuperMedia Store and Meritline for best prices.

Jay

ScottW wrote on 12/8/2004, 5:40 AM

I think the answer is that Ritek is the ID and the brand - though the ID may be something like RiData. I use G04 exclusively and have been quite pleased with it.

--Scott

corug7 wrote on 12/8/2004, 8:50 PM

I use Prodisk white printable disks at home, and I haven't had any problems so far as long as the bitrate is kept to an acceptable level. That said, I work for a duplication house, and we just switched to Taiyo Yuden. In a word, Awesome, and worth the extra dough. As a test run, we ran 400, and had only one bad burn, which wasn't due to bad media but a scratch on the disc.