Skipping movie

[dragonslayer49]

helo everyone,

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I've been using DVD shrink for about a 6mons w/o any trouble, recently I have been experiencing a little trouble here. Everything goes fine until I go to play it on my DVD player, movie start fine, but in between it starts to skip or pause, come out with an error message "Disk not readable". This has been happening to a few movies I have backup.<o></o>

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I have been scratching my head for while, I can figure out what could be doing this.

[Infection]

Sounds like poor media, whats the disc you are using?

[dragonslayer49]

I have backup'd a few dozen, had no trouble before, all on fuji DVD-R's
all the previous once play & work great. all of a sudden now it keep freezing or skipping in the middle......hmm. confused

[ravensheild exp]

What is the media id? Open DVDD hit iso read and insert your media and copy and paste the information provided in the right hand side window. Are you using disc covers? Is this happening with all your media in this player or just recently burned ones?

[jmet]

If your backup freezes, stutters, skips, or has some pixelation, it is more than likely due to poor quality media being used. Cheap media is poorly manufactured around the edge of the disc, hence the reason why it mostly skips or freezes from the middle toward the end of the movie. The two main things to consider first are:

• Is it cheap media that you are using? (ie. some off brand you bought at a local computer store/fair, even a store like Circuit City or Best Buy sells cheap low quality media.)
• How fast are you burning? - Burn no faster than 4X, might have to go down to 2X with really cheap media.

Also, are you using adhesive labels on your back ups? If so, try removing the labels (if you can) and playing them again. Go here for more info on why not to use labels. - http://forum.digital-digest.com/show...threadid=28604

You can go here for some other possible solutions: http://forum.digital-digest.com/show...threadid=44912


Also try lowering outcome the "Target DVD size".

Open DVD Shrink. Click "Edit", then "Preferences". On the first tab at the top in the drop down box, change it from "DVD-5 (4.7GB) to "Custom" and enter a number of 4200MB (4464MB is burning to the edge of the disc, you want to stay away from the edge as the edge of cheap media (disc's) are poorly manufactured). Screen Shot Below:

[setarip]

To dragonslayer49

Do your burned DVDs play properly on your PC? If so, try running a DVD/CD cleaning disc on your standalone DVD player. Maxell makes one that sells for approximately $10US...

[dragonslayer49]

That Best Buy salesmen told me, Fuji makes the best & highest quality disc, better than other media disc's in the market, I felt for it & bought Fuji of course, now I'm facing trouble with Fuji DVD-R, so what would you guys recommend for backing up movies on a (DVD-R's)...I tried to back up HITCH & wasted about 4 disc & still incomplete.

I burned a Few dozen DVD-R's on Fuji had no trouble only recently having trouble.

I did use label maker for my DVD-R's but unfortunately the DVD player want play it at all, so I stopped doing that....moved on.

Like "setarip" said it works fine on PC, but not on DVD player or ps2. I might have to try that disc cleaner. Hopefully that works.

"ravenshield exp" I'll copy & paste the results sometime today.

Thx for all the suggestion, I'll try everything you guys said.

[setarip]

"I burned a Few dozen DVD-R's on Fuji had no trouble only recently having trouble."

"Like 'setarip' said it works fine on PC, but not on DVD player or ps2"

Then it does NOT seem that your problem is with the burnable media...