Finished DVD pauses for a second every 30 seconds

[shamrockbar]

I'm using a pioneer DVD recorder. When I am finished recording, I always finalise the disk and when I play it back it plays perfectly.


Problem is that when it is played on another DVD player, the picture seems to freeze for about a second, approx. every 30 seconds.

can anyone help?

[Ai Haibara]

Is the DVD a dual-layer DVD? The second player (the one on which you're attempting to play it back) might be having a minor problem with the layer breaks. Does it do the same thing on other DVD players?

[shamrockbar]

No i'm using TY -R disks single layer

The DVD's are freezing on many different players

[pio433]

How is your TV connected?
If your TV not connected directly to your DVD player, but throug any other VCR or any, the copy protection my couse to do this.
I experienced this when I watched through my VCR.

[FulciLives]

No i'm using TY -R disks single layer

The DVD's are freezing on many different players

Burn them no faster than 6x speed. Taiyo Yuden is about as good as it gets but it pays to burn "slow". 6x is the fastest I would burn and some prefer 4x speed.

Personally I find 6x to work fine although if I have 8x media I do tend to burn 4x but if I have faster rated media ... like 16x ... then I'll burn 6x speed.

I never burn a DVD faster than 6x speed.

Also make sure you burn with ImgBurn and try to burn from an ISO file instead of burning direct from a VIDEO_TS folder.

Also make sure you have the newest firmware for your DVD burner. You might want to google the name Pioneer and the word firmware (maybe toss in the model number).

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[guns1inger]

I believe the OP is having this problem with his DVD Recorder, so while your advice is sound for a PC burn, it might not help him with his current problem.

[FulciLives]

Silly me ... I thought it was a PC burner.

I see now that it is a stand alone DVD recorder.

If that recorder can't burn TY well then chances are the burner on it is no longer any good and not much you can do but buy a new DVD recorder.

Having said that some models of stand alone DVD recorders do seem to be made to work better with +R than -R in which case I would suggest trying TY +R media.

IF that doesn't work THEN time for a new DVD recorder.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[hech54]

Does Pioneer put out DVD Recorder firmware updates?

[Chopmeister]

I had this problem with one combination of recorder and player - some discs recorded on my Panny DMR-E85H would freeze up on both of my parents DVD players. Turned out this happened when I recorded at a non-standard bitrate (the "FR" setting to get a longer than 2hr movie onto disc using the whole amount of storage available). If I took care to record in SP or LP modfe this didn't happen. Took me ages to figure out what was going on, as the FR discs played fine in the recorder itself (obviously) and the cheap no-name player in my spare room, and I didn't watch FR discs at my folks that often. Since then, I have found one other player that hates FR discs as well.

Does the problem still recur if you record in SP or LP mode (or whatever the equivalents are on your recorder)?

[lordsmurf]

TY does not have the best reflectivity. Try Verbatim media instead.
This assumes the player is not simply dirty and is fine on pressed discs.