movie gets blocky at the near end

[SidDan]

well well just when I was happy and proud of my work... they all look great in the beginning and so I didnt think more of it.. it´s a sucess I said.
but when I had a movie going I noticed the fault

but after like an hour or so.... the movie gets all blocky and freezes.Just like as if a transmission is wrong on a digital channel. It may be ok later and continue watching and it may not... it can just stop totally or just flicker for a second or two. I never did check the whole movie before... and just noticed it now. I have burnt 6 movies so far,,,, and only 1 movie is perfect still. one movie I just burnt with no menus... just movie only and it was the same, no compression at all

I use the Bulk DVD-R but have also tried a philips DVD+RW. . same thing
with bulks I burn it in a macintosh Roxio Platinum the newest and the +DVDs in Nero

..so close and yet so far away

[vric]

it's 99% cause of a bad media..

look with your dvd-rom if it's ok.. if yes, it's the media.. buy better quality media
I had this problem 1 time with a Princo disk.. now I only use Ritek and all perfect.. 10 burn so far (in 2 week)

[SidDan]

hmm, stupid shit marketing then... they said this Bulk DVD-R is best suitable for video and console games..
well ok.. I can´t find my Verbatim DVD+RW so I will buy another one and check how it goes on that one

[SidDan]

how do you burn your movies by the way?...
in Nero as DVD-Rom (UDF) perhaps?...or just as DVD-Video?

[vric]

I use the wisard with DVD-Video.. some user here hate it, but it work fine for me...

[Bob W]

Do a very close visual check of the media near the outer edge of the disc. I had 15 verbatim 4x DVD+R discs that had tiny bubbles, and voids in the dye making them useless the last 400MB or so of the disc. I just used them for burns of less that 4GB and then they were fine.

[SidDan]

hmm, bubbles you say... strange.

I have never encountered any uneven surfaces during my years.
The Bulk I used has a very lovely pinkish color.. very vlean surface
But I have burnt a movie only disc and it was like 3.60. Still the same thing.
I have even burnt them in 1x speed. but yea.. I checked it in the computer where it got nasty in the standalone and it played fine, so it must be the media..or the burning. But I don´t want to believe that cus I have like over 80 bulk DVDs left



that is the one I use

[artpoun79]

i was once a newbie, i did my trial and errors. i messed up around 25-30 of my PRINCO disk and wasn't getting result; i was mad. I used SMART-RIPPER, view it, rip it, encode it with DVD2ONE, and burn it with NERO. little did i know, SR was the problem in my case, not PRINCO! .

i switched SR to DVDDecrypter and view it after before i burn not before i encode it. confuse? you want the end product; you have to check the movie after DVDDecrypter have encode to see if it's good. SR is viewing the movie that just being rip from the DVD.

Whatever, works for me :P

[SidDan]

well welll... I have never used SR.. only DVD decrypter and the movie looks all fine on the computer even when I play from the disc. just on the standalone I see the skippings

[wot_fan]

I have had the same type of experience except with Ritek media. My first 50 Riteks worked great. I had about a 50% failure rate on the second spindle of 50. The bigger the movie the more likely it was to have problems. Most played fine in my DVD-Rom drive but some showed the same problems as in my stand alone player. Even some of the DVDs that played fine in my player had problems in others (I tested some in a friends DVD player).

For my second batch of 100 DVDs I bought Samsung BeAll. So far I have burned about 70 of them. I have had 2 coasters (failed during burning). All the remaining have played fine in my stand alone. BTW, many of these were 4.3+Gb.

I guess what I have learned is that success requires the right combination of media and stand alone player. For my situation, BeAll media seams to be the best bet. Your mileage may vary.

Wot_fan

[RAAGAAman]

Cheap media typically has more warpage at the outer diameter. This warpage causes hell with a DVD writer. During writing the drive loses focus and can burn at the wrong write power. Also, if you get a pretty good burn the DVD player will have to deal with this warpage because there will be problems reading on the OD. Do not use labels on your media because this will also cause a problems.

RG

[Doggiedaddy]

artpoun79
Dude you made "25-30" coasters, bummer. That has to be some kind of a record or something!!

Dd

[JHMac]

WOW that many coasters sounds like your using DVDXCopy...

[thxkid]

check for finger prints or any other type of foreign material on it I have had the same problems and pulled the DVD+R out and there at the very end was a very oh very slight smudge, wiped it off stuck it back in, wahla, played back fine no more blocks or freeze ups. media seems to be very picky in this matter, no matter what brand it is.

[jarroyo]

Did you by any chance put a sticky label on this DVD? Is it perfectly centered? I have not had any problems with sticky labels, but there are reports and people who swear that sticky labels could have this effect on DVDs because they throw off the disk's balance.

[SidDan]

hehe you guys are funny but thxkid has a point. I just looked at a movie to see the qiality and it was skipping like after an hour or so in the movie. first time I tried the copy it was unbearable,,, 2nd time it was perfect.. hmm (didn´t even take out the disc) and when I checked it again there were small glitches. Now I took out the disc and cleaned it a lil with just a cotton and where it was a lil skip at 1:06:06 hours it was gone... but nw I just saw another small glitch 3 mins after..... so stupid. If it is so sensitive now then how long will this disc last, really. <--- bulk media

I have also burnt Harry potter on the bulk one and it was acting crazy. so I sacrificed one of my precious Verbatim and it played very fine.. perfect.
so.... it must be the quality in the outer area that differs from the brands.
My head is just spinning like crazy why oh why is the moive The One working 100% great on the Bulk DVD

well ok.. these Verbatim I bought almost 9 dollars each last year... but now they are a l o t cheaper. SO I guess I´ll be making backups on those.

and for labeling, no, haven´t marked the discs in anyway

[MackemX]

as well as making sure you have clean discs after, make sure they are spotless before as any type of contamination may affect the burn quality

I always clean my DVD's previous to burning cos even freshly unwrapped they can be contaminated with dust etc but I also check the quality of the DVD cos sometimes they have imperfections in the dye

after the burn have a real close look at the DVD in the light by twisting it and make sure the burn is perfect and you cannot see any imperfections (you may be surprised if you do see some)

Is it perfect burn or are there tiny gaps in the data? as you can normally see it if there is

that's probably why I never have any playback issues with the fussiest of fussy players in my Sony or any other player I have tried them in

I use Ritek G04's by the way cos I feel the darker the dye the better the media. I hate the lighter dye ones as some DVD players struggle reading them even if it's a perfect burn

[ktnwin]

I had that problem once with Ritek media (bulk 100, written at 1X using Pioneer 105, Nero Express). Ritek is a very good media, I think it's more to do with player/media compatibility.
The same DVD disc plays fine on many other DVD players except the one made in Taiwan (don't remember the brand). Near the end, the video is blocky, freezed, etc...

[SidDan]

hmm, funny, I also do a visual checkup on the discs before and after burn, and they all look pretty nice to me, alltho I don´t use a microscope
These 2 media I have tried have a dark purple dye, but it is very clean looking for me. I have burnt 2 movies on verbatim so far in these 2 days and they play perfectly.



hmmmmmmmmmm

you think one cause can be that.... I burn the disc in a macintosh realtime from my pc computer?... like I have the files still on my PC but I use the network from the mac to burn the files on its recorder