Burned movies glitching towards the end?

[Mike89]

I notice that a few burned movies (using dvd decripter and dvd shrink) are glitching towards the end of the movies. Momentary pauses/freezes, sometimes so bad the rest of the movie can't even be watched. Dunno what the problem is. Playing fine until towards the end. This does not happen on all players. I can play it one one player and no problems at all. Play it on another one and have these problems towards the end.

Anyone had similar issues?

[Alien Bay]

Anyone had similar issues?

Yup. There's a couple of factors to look at. What speed are you burning at? Shouldn't be any faster than 4x. Also, what kind of media are you using. Using a good quality media.
Primarily, I would suggest you slow down the burn speed.

I had this issue a lot early on and changed a lot of things all at once. One was discontinuing use of older LiteOn dvd burner, which I think didn't help issues. The other was slow down the burn speed to 4x.
I also use DVD Info to check the burn and it's pretty good at finding bad burn sectors. Saves me the grief of getting almost all the way thru a movie to find out it's essentially and crap burn.
You can find DVD Info Pro here. It has a free trial and then you must purchase.

[blutach]

Read http://forum.digital-digest.com/show...threadid=44912 If you don't like ads, you can use Nero CD-DVD Speed (see how to test your burn in my sig).

Probably bad/inferior media. Read the golden rules of burning in my sig.

Regards

[setarip]

To Mike89

"I can play it one one player and no problems at all. Play it on another one and have these problems towards the end."

Although, as others have speculated, it most likely is a problem of poor quality media, your statement that these discs exhibit this behaviour on only one of your players MAY indicate that the problem lies with the player.

You may want to try running a DVD/CD cleaning disc on that standalone DVD player. Maxell makes one that retails for approximately $10US...


If you have more questions, always feel free to ask them...

Some people can't see the forest for the trees. Most times, simple is better;>}

[Mike89]

I just ran that test using the Nero DVD speed. All green. I had been burning at 8x. I'm new to DVD burning and so far have used only HP dvd+r 8x media (which I thought were good disks). Guess I'll try lowering the speed down a bit. I noticed when burning with DVD Decripter, the burning speeds varied from like 3x at the beginning and got faster as more disk was burned, ending up at around 8x. I thought that was adjusting the burn to the proper speed. Still too fast? I also took a tip from a guide I read (using DVD Decripter and DVD Shrink) that suggesed setting up DVD Shrink to a maximum size of 4360 so as not to get so close to the end of the disk and giving a little wiggle room for less potential errors. That's what I have always had the default max size at since I started my burning experiences.

[LT. Columbo]

usually problems like this can be overcome by switching media and slowing your burn speed down. be wary of the nero speed tests as i have had one show all green and 100%, yet there was still damage to the disc.

[tigerman8u]

getting glitches at the end of a dvd is a good sign that the media is either cheap or bad. You can lower the overall size of your burn to stay away from the edges of the dvd where the media/dye gets worse. You could also try a dvd-r to see if your player likes it better than dvd+r