DVDA2b burn stinks.

J_Mac wrote on 12/16/2004, 2:04 PM

Hello, I've been burning a lot of coasters the last few days. I burned my complete project on Memorex DVD-R 8x media and had no problems. My wife found a spelling error, on the menues, so I purchased the same discs again.

I tested my discs on a Panasonic DVD RP62, and the burns are blocky and the audio skips. I've used this player for two years with no playback problems. Popular DVD's and older projects play without a hitch on it. I've tried more expensive media and cheaper media with the same result. ALL BURNS PLAY ON MY $30.00 APEX. No skips, great color, etc.
Oddly when I burn to Memorex DVD-RW, the project plays fine, on the Panasonic. Icannot find out what player my client has.

I opened an older project and burned to the new Memorex DVD-R media, the new cheap media and the new expensive media. All play fine on the Panasonic. I've varied burn rates, 1x, 2x 4x, and 4.0.4.5, 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, up to 8.0, bit rates. All with the same crummy playback.
I also used DVD shrink with the same crummy plaback.

The music CDR, for the project, burned on the Sony plays fine on a multitude of CD players.

I'm burning on a new Sony DVD RW DRU-700A.
The Vegas 5 project is 2 videos, MPG2 and AC3 with menues totaling 5.4 Gig. I rendered in Vegas at 4 bits and got the size down to fit on 1 disc in DVDA. But the burn stinks. Any ideas. My last desperate measure will be to produce on the DVD-RW, cause I know it works. Thanks for any help or ideas. John.

Comments

ScottW wrote on 12/16/2004, 2:29 PM

I've re-read your post 4 times now and I can't say I understand what the problem is. On one line you say "all play fine on the panasonic" and then a little later you say "all with the same crummy playback" - so which is it????

DVD Players get old and the mechanical parts can get worn - the tracking in a player I've had for a few years is not nearly as good as it was originally, so if there's even the most minor defect on the DVD surface, the player has fits (it didn't used to have fits).

If everything really is playing fine on your new $40 Apex, then I'd say it's your panasonic player that needs to be recycled, not DVDA or your Sony burner (or your media).

If you are convinced it's DVDA screwing up the burn, then download a copy of some other burning software and see if it makes a difference - CopyToDVD gives you a 30 day free trial, it co-exists fine with DVDA on the same machine.

--Scott

J_Mac wrote on 12/17/2004, 7:15 PM

Scott, You're right. It should have read;

'I opened an older project and burned to the new Memorex DVD-R media, the new cheap media and the new expensive media. All play fine on the Panasonic.

I've varied burn rates, (On thenew media, with the new project), 1x, 2x 4x, and 4.0.4.5, 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, up to 8.0, bit rates. All with the same crummy playback. (On the Panasonic)
I also used DVD shrink with the same crummy playback, (On thenew media.)

I agree the symptoms indicate the Panasonic is the problem, but I was hoping to learn more here about a variable I had missed. Thanks John.