Mpeg file plays good in PowerDVD, but not on final burnt DVD

[sellpipe]

I have a dvd compliant mpeg file that I made with my miniDV cam. It has alot of fast moving action and I done alot of panning when I made the initial DV. It plays fine when I use PowerDVD to play the file, however when I burn it to DVD, the panning and fast action scenes are terrible.

I captured it with Scenalyzer to AVI, used CCE to convert to mpeg and Sonic MyDVD to burn it. I also tryed Neo with the same results.

I have been reading and reading in here to get some ideas but Ive run out of ideas.

Does anyone have more suggestions for me to try?

Doug

[j1d10t]

This is probably a stupid question, but, did MyDVD or Neo re-encode the video?

[Codesmith]

I would rip the DVD to your hard drive as an ISO and mount it with deamon tools. Or rip it to your hard drive and play the vob's. Make sure you have enough free space that the file won't get badly fragmented. The goal is to elliminate poor read performance from the equation.

If it plays bad, then you know its the encoding.

If it plays good then its a playback problem.

Some burners are extremely poor readers. Some burn DVDs are bearly legible to the DVD-ROM. So you want to rule this out before investigating further.

[sellpipe]

I just played the DVD in my computer and it looks fine. I burned it with my DRU-500AX.

Must be my standalone. I just got it the other day it is a Sony DVP-NC665. Brand new....hmmmm

More work now!!

dp

[sellpipe]

Well,

I ripped it to my HD and loaded it tith daemon and played with PowerDVD and it looked fine (dammit)

I dont understand why my stand-alone dosnt like it. Any MORE ideas?

BTW, when I burnt it with myDVD, it did re-encode it

[Allan55]

sellpipe said:

BTW, when I burnt it with myDVD, it did re-encode it

What encoder does myDVD use? Maybe its the culprit.

Maybe find a DVD authoring program that doesn't force a reencode.

[j1d10t]

Most programs have a setting somewhere that you can turn on and off so it won't re-encode the file. That is most likely the problem. If you originally converted the file to MPEG with CCE (which I've heard has excellent quality), than having another program re-encode it would result in quality loss.

[vance43211]

use TMPGEnc Dvd author (free trial) to convert your mpeg to vob files than use nero to burn as a dvd video