Testing DVD without playing whole movie

[chetvaldes]

Hello,
I was wondering if there is an easier yet thorough way to check a DVD after authoring. I have found a few that had skips or jumps in places, but I had to sit through the whole hour and a half movie to find it. By the way, the problem discs occurred when using Nero Express- I have since been using ImgBurn with good results.
Is there some program that can check the movie integrity to save some time?
Thanks
Chet

[burrell84601]

Hi Chet,

First make sure that you are following THE GOLDEN RULES OF BURNING (http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=49635)

Not following the advice given will result in bad burns.

Second Get CD/DVD Speed HERE (http://www.cdspeed2000.com/download.html)

Ypu want to look for burns with PIF's under 5000. The lower the better.
Also a quality score of 90 or greater. The higher the better. A little hint, use of great media and following the Golden Rules will give you great numbers.

Good Luck:toast:

[cynthia]

My own experience is that when you have skips/jumps it's in 99,9% of the cases due to a crappy burning result that can be found by doing a disc scan with either Nero DiscSpeed or DVDInfoPro.

:)

[chetvaldes]

Hey, thanks for the input! I should immediately upgrade my disc choice since I have been using the cheapest discs I can find. And the tests described should reveal what went wrong.

[burrell84601]

If you are going to buy locally Verbatim and Sony are a pretty good bet and they go on sale at incredible savings at least once a month at Officemax, Staples, Bestbuy and even K-mart.

If you want to go for the cream of the crop you can get Taiyo Yuden's (http://www.supermediastore.com/taiyo-yuden-dvd-r-media.html) at Super Media Store if you are in the USA.

Good Luck to you.