DVD Viewing Problems

[Freddy735]

Whenever I watch a burned DVD on my DVD player, I can get about halfway through the DVD and the movie begins to skip and freeze up.

Do you think it is a problem with the player itself or possibly the media. My friend burns the movies for me and I know he uses good quality media (he got recommendations from this site). He does put a label on the movies and he burns them at 4x.

My player is a Toshiba 4700, a few years old, but I think it reads most forms of media.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

[LT. Columbo]

sounds like typical media incompatibility or poor media, the labels might be causing problems too. find out the compatible media format of your player here

http://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers

just one more thing, how do commercial discs play in it?

[Freddy735]

Commercial discs play fine. Sometimes there my be a short pause between frames, but that is ususally very seldom.

My friend uses MCC (Mitubishi Cemical Corp) DVD+R

[LT. Columbo]

you could try a lens cleaning disc on your player since it is a few years old, other wise refer to my previos post

[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:

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@Freddy375

Hi!

Do the burned backups play okay on your PC?

Why let your friend have all the fun? Get yourself a burner and burn the backups of your originals yourself. that way you won't run the risk of someone else damaging your purchased original DVDs!