Improving DVD playback

HaroldC wrote on 5/8/2008, 2:43 PM

I've be using VMS6.0 and DVDA3 for a couple of years now. So far the quality of my dvd playback has been fairly hit or miss. I've gone through a number of brands of dvd's available locally retail. The Sony discs have given me the best playback. But I would still regularly get dvd's that would freeze up and have excessive pixilation. I've reduced my burn speed and that seems to help. But the last couple of dvd's I've made have had markers placed at five minute intervels in the mpeg2 before I rendered in VMS. This appears to have made the dvd's play noticably smoother. I have generally not placed markers in the video before I rendered. Has anyone else noticed placing markers in the mpeg2 having helped the dvd play more smoothly?

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Ivan Lietaert wrote on 5/8/2008, 9:15 PM

Could it be that your dvd-player is to blame? I had a cheap-brand dvdplayer and playback deteriorated over time (only one year): suddenly it would stop playing dvd+r media, then it refused to play dvd-r media, so only dvd+rw was playable. Then it also refused this media. I sent the player back for repairs (under warranty), and after the dvd-drive was replaced, everything was fine again.

HaroldC wrote on 5/9/2008, 5:51 AM

That could be part of the problem. But the same dvd will have problems on multiple players. Also adding the markers so far has solved the playback problems.

Byron K wrote on 5/14/2008, 11:08 PM

Maybe it's your DVD burner. I've had an issue where I'd get sporadic DVD burns and finally my burner would not burn DVDs only CDRs then it couldn't burn CDRs. Replaced it and now it's fine.