spam

I get a DVD which plays OK in a standalone player hooked to the TV. I
rip it with a Sony DW-D26A using DVDDecryptor. The rip appears to go
smoothly - no obvious glitches. Then I process the files with
DVDShrink, again no obvious problems. The I burn a DVD-R blank disk
using Nero 6.

What causes some of the DVDs to have defects, parts of the movie which
plays very slowly, jumps past small segments or won't play at all?

Is it the original DVD, the Sony DVD hardware, the ripper software,
the encoder, the Sony burner, the burning software, the blank discs?

What is the most likely cause of this problem?

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pilgrim

Sounds like bad media to me. A lot of the folks on these newsgroups say to
try different brands of blank discs until you find a brand that plays OK
after having been burned on your DVD burner, then always use (only) that
brand.

HTH. Good luck...

pilgrim

neil maxwell

You might try writing at half the max speed; that is, if it's an 8x
burner and blanks, write at 4x. My NEC burners have been very
reliable, but I recently bought some CMC blanks by accident (I usually
use Ricoh).

About 1/3 of these failed verification at 8x, all passed at 4x. I'll
be testing them for whether they die any faster over time, but I'm
betting they will. More on this in a year or so...

I write everything I want to last for very long at 1/2 the max burner
speed, verify everything after burn, and carefully select blanks.


--
Neil Maxwell - I don't speak for my employer

spam

That's two posters with the same answer.

My first suspicion was bad media too. We got a stack of cheap crap
from Best Buy. Personally I would not buy a truck load of pig shit
from Best Buy, but my son works near one and the siren song was too
luring.

He contends that we have bad originals, but I disagree on the basis
that the ripper does not complain about the rip.

Is it true that if the ripper, DVDDecrypter in our case, would alert
us to a bad rip? Put the other way, if the ripper does not alert us,
then is it safe to assume that the rip is good?

Similarly I would imagine that a bad rip would cause the DVD burner to
alert us. IOW, if nothing alerts us along the rip chain of events,
then the only thing left is bad media - or so I would imagine.

We have Nero 6 which has a DVD Identifier, so we need to use it. I
used one for CDs and always got Japanese CDs because they were the
only manufacturers who did blank CDs right. Tayio Yuden was the
prefered maker - never had one coaster out of several hundred burns.


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between a free man and a slave."
-- Andrew Fletcher, Discourse on Government (1695)

mark burns

Best advice that I got 18 months ago with similar problems:

"Get a Pioneer, duuuuuuuuude"

So I got an A08. No problems since.

Cheers...

the wizard

|I get a DVD which plays OK in a standalone player hooked to the TV. I
| rip it with a Sony DW-D26A using DVDDecryptor. The rip appears to go
| smoothly - no obvious glitches. Then I process the files with
| DVDShrink, again no obvious problems. The I burn a DVD-R blank disk
| using Nero 6.
|
| What causes some of the DVDs to have defects, parts of the movie which
| plays very slowly, jumps past small segments or won't play at all?
|
| Is it the original DVD, the Sony DVD hardware, the ripper software,
| the encoder, the Sony burner, the burning software, the blank discs?
|
| What is the most likely cause of this problem?
|

Hollywood is the cause of bad movies ;-)

Seriously, As other posters have already mentioned, Sometimes even blanks
get a bad batch in whether high or budget quality.

Another suggestion, You are'nt doing anything else on your PC whilst the
burn is taking place are you? This can cause problems (also any programs
running in the background ideally should be switched off)
A final problem could be your burner developing a fault?

T.W.

gene e. bloch

On 6/29/2005, Bob managed to type:

<SNIP>

I have to ask: then where _would_ you buy a truckload of pigshit?

It would be good to know.

This is probably off-topic :-)

Gino

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the wizard

| On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:08:33 -0500, pilgrim <no.spam@my.house.pls> | wrote: |
| >Sounds like bad media to me. A lot of the folks on these newsgroups say to
| >try different brands of blank discs until you find a brand that plays OK
| >after having been burned on your DVD burner, then always use (only) that
| >brand.
|
| That's two posters with the same answer.
|
| My first suspicion was bad media too. We got a stack of cheap crap
| from Best Buy. Personally I would not buy a truck load of pig shit
| from Best Buy, but my son works near one and the siren song was too
| luring.
|
| He contends that we have bad originals, but I disagree on the basis
| that the ripper does not complain about the rip.
|
| Is it true that if the ripper, DVDDecrypter in our case, would alert
| us to a bad rip? Put the other way, if the ripper does not alert us,
| then is it safe to assume that the rip is good?
|
| Similarly I would imagine that a bad rip would cause the DVD burner to
| alert us. IOW, if nothing alerts us along the rip chain of events,
| then the only thing left is bad media - or so I would imagine.
|
| We have Nero 6 which has a DVD Identifier, so we need to use it. I
| used one for CDs and always got Japanese CDs because they were the
| only manufacturers who did blank CDs right. Tayio Yuden was the
| prefered maker - never had one coaster out of several hundred burns.

Well, DVD Decryptor or DVD Shrink will halt on a bad disc (Say one that has
a bad scratch) and you'll find it difficult to continue past that point on
the original.
I've always found if it's ripped 100% then it should in theory burn
o-k...You can always open shrink and play the movie that's copied to your
hard drive and play it in full screen mode by double clicking the preview
pane :-))

T.W.

abe

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Besides all the answers about bad media, the player can be at fault
also. I've had 2 Toshiba players (SD-4700 and SD-4800) that always had
problems with recordable media. I finally got a Panasonic (DVD-F87K),
and it plays everything flawlessly.

spam

Not my collection.

It is my contention that Best Buy sells crap.

What evidence would we see other than bad DVDs?


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http://home.houston.rr.com/rkba/vrwc.html

"The possession of arms is the distinction
between a free man and a slave."
-- Andrew Fletcher, Discourse on Government (1695)