re: big thnx 2 ALL

sonicboom wrote on 9/17/2002, 3:03 PM

thnx everyone for all your help in my dvd burning experience
i just got the correct drive pioneer bare drive 104 from esbuy today
i put it in and viola burned a disc
no menus--just a clean burn--2 minute video
i wanted to see it fast
anyway, no problems at all
i have ulead movie factory
it says 9x burn speed--i guess that's normal--i think i read somewhere about that
anyway, i'm off to burn a 60 minute project with menus now
thnx again
:)
sb

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CDM wrote on 9/17/2002, 3:52 PM

let me know how the 60 minute one works for you. I haven't been able to burn a one hour movie (no menus or chapters) that doens't hiccup or freeze during plyaback at some point (usually after the 30 minute mark.)

I have the DVR-104 and a dual 1.6 gig athlon.

I have burned with Nero (images) and dvd decrypter. All at 1x.

sonicboom wrote on 9/17/2002, 4:12 PM

what blank dvd are you using that you can't play properly for 1 hour?
i just burned a 2 minute pioneer dvd-rw, plays great
and i just bought imation dvd-rw and verbetum dvd-rw
i'll try out a 60 minute dvd-rw and let you know
sb

salad wrote on 9/17/2002, 4:21 PM

Charlesdem,
This hiccup/freeze on playback.....is this on a set top/stand alone player....PC or both?

Just curious? thanks

CDM wrote on 9/17/2002, 4:53 PM

Hey -
well, I feel like I've tried everything here... I've encoded the video twice as .m2v (separate video stream default template) then I've imported it into Maestro to make the vob's and the disc image file. I've tried burning the Video_ts folder directly in Nero and I've also tried DVD Decrypter to burn the iamge. The movie plays fine on generic DVDs for the first 20 minutes then hiccups and freezes on a standalone player and hard freezes/crashes my PowerDVD.

TDK DVD-R media seemed better, and I burned one at 2x and one at 1x and both hiccup and glitch by the time it gets to the end of the video.

the video has no chapters and is a firstplay only.

any feedback would be GREATLY appreciated.

vonhosen wrote on 9/17/2002, 4:58 PM

What bitrate are you encoding at ?
Is Audio PCM ,MPEG-1 layer II or AC-3 & at what rate ?

CDM wrote on 9/17/2002, 5:19 PM

I'm using the default DVD NTSC Video Stream template and then encoding the audio at PCM 48k Stereo 16bit wave.

vonhosen wrote on 9/17/2002, 5:32 PM

Well that should be fine, I was just wondering if you were encoding at full 8.0Mbs with PCM audi in which case it would be a pretty full stream and error correction on player may get a little swamped but with an average of 6.0mbs I doubt if that is the case.
Have you tried any other authoring programs ?

sonicboom wrote on 9/17/2002, 7:41 PM

charlesdem
i burned an hour project on dvd-rw--no problem
i used the default settings
i don't know what to tell you--i used a pioneer dvd-rw
i hope you get you're problem solved because this can be very frustrating
:)
sb

salad wrote on 9/17/2002, 7:51 PM

Charlesdem,
DL that free 30 day demo of......Ulead?
Drag the mpeg2 file back onto the timeline to examine?

CDM wrote on 9/17/2002, 7:56 PM

SB -
did you play it back on a commercial DVD player and watch it all the way through?
I can burn it too - it's just playing it through with no glitches that I have difficulty with.

I'll try Pioneer discs next and Apple...

thanks!

CDM wrote on 9/17/2002, 7:58 PM

Thanks Salad -
The mpeg is fine because I looked at the image with daemon tools. If you don't have Daemon tools and DVD Decrypter, I HIGHLY recommend them. Very cool. Daemon tools lets you mount a cirtual drive out of disc image. I played it and it's totally fine.

hmmmm.
I ran out of my ulead trial a while ago but it worked the last time I used it. However, it was only a twenty minute video, which works fine. So, I'm not sure...

Now I'm tryin to make the VOBs with ReelDVD and I'm burning them with Nero. I'll give an update.

thanks!

sonicboom wrote on 9/17/2002, 8:47 PM

charlesdem--yeah i didn't mention it
i played it the whole way through
no gliches, artifacts or stutters--knock on wood
i played it back on my pioneer 656a player
but again, i used a pioneer dvd-rw
from readig the posts in here i decided to use pioneer until i get me feet wet then i will get more daring and try a less expensive dvd like meritline etc
from reading various forums i've found a lot of peoples problems came from using generic dvd's
try the pioneer and see what happens
good luck
sb