Problems With DVD9-DVD Or Longer Movies

[DRJAZZ123]

I am having problems when I try to backup longer 'movie only' DVDs (More than 2.5 hours) or when I try to transfer a DVD9 to a DVD5 (Including all menus, features etc.)
Later into the film, the picture quality starts to break up and within two or three minutes, the DVD becomes unplayable.

I notice that the new DVD2One features constant bitrate for longer movies.

I don't pretend to understand the theory behind this but can anyone tell me the best way of backing up longer movies and DVD9-5. The method I am currently using is DVD Decrypter - DVD2One - RecordNow Max

Thanks for any help
DoctorJ

[Vejita-sama]

Image taking a 8GB movie and compressing it down to 4.3GB, something has got to give For best quaility spilt the DVD9 to two DVDR discs. If you want to back it up to one disc consider removing the extras.

DVD2One is a transcoder, for the best resusts you should re-encode with either CCE or TMPGEnc, then re-author the DVD (either movie only or full disc, once again movie only gives more room for a higher bitrate).

Here's a guide for one way to do that:

http://www.doom9.org/mpg/maestro2.htm

Might also want to take a look at doitfast4u/docce4u (not easy, but good quaility back ups). Re-encoding is slow, I normally do 3pass VBR encodes with CCE which on my AMD 2200XP works out to ~ 2.8x the source runtime (ie. 2hr movie takes ~5.5hrs).

As far as one click solutions go some people consider Instant Copy to give better results than DVD2One so you might want to give it a try.

[poopyhead]

Later into the film, the picture quality starts to break up and within two or three minutes, the DVD becomes unplayable.

by unplayable...do you mean that literally?? does your player start rejecting the DVD???

or do you mean the quality isn't that good...unbearable quality, but still playable??

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@Vejita-sama, i believe DRJAZZ123 is referring to the former....not about video quality issues...but i could be wrong

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@DRJAZZ123, how fast you burn your DVDs??? try burning at 1X. also, does your dvd player support the format you're using?? type in your dvd player here https://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers and find out which dvd formats (-R/+R) your dvd player supports.

also, i've heard that cheaper media may have problems being read towards the outter edge of the disc...that could be your problem..personally, i use cheapo, 1X princo media and that hasn't happened..but could've to you.

one last question....does this video breakup occur only on your dvd player, or also on your computer's DVD-ROM drive?

[DRJAZZ123]

Thank you for those two replies. There's plenty for me to try out.

I've never tried re-encoding with CCE or TMPGEnc. I have used both programs to make SVCDs (Before I got a DVD-RW) so I'll check out the tutorial at Doom9.

Sorry that my descriptions of the problems are so unspecific. My lack of technical knowledge is a disadvantage! The picture develops faults when become more and more frequent and the clock starts skipping. Eventually the picture and sound will freeze, the clock display will freeze and that's that!

This happens when played back both on DVD standalone player and using my DVD-RW drive.

[poopyhead]

The picture develops faults when become more and more frequent and the clock starts skipping. Eventually the picture and sound will freeze, the clock display will freeze and that's that!

This happens when played back both on DVD standalone player and using my DVD-RW drive.

hrm....this doesn't really sound like a video quality issue per se...(i.e. it doesn't look as good as the original) this seems like something screwed up majorly, irregardless of the video quality

since your DVD has the same problem in the computer and on your standalone, i'm guessing it could be the media.

just a quick question...which OS do you have and what type of file allocation table to your hdd use (i.e. FAT32 or NTFS)???

1) if you can, try your DVD on a friend's player and see if the same thing happens.

2) again, try burning at 1X and only 1X and see if the problem goes away.

3) also, try switching to another burning proggie (i.e. copy2dvd, nero, etc...)