skipping/choppy dvd Playback

[deftonzman00]

Hello, I have what may be a somewhat long question for anyone who may know. I have a Sony DRU-500a dvd burner (firmware 2.0f) in a Pentium 4 setup. Anyhow, I started backing up my dvd collection with a 25 pack of Ritek 2x media that I got online for at the time what was a good deal. These discs all worked perfectly on both of my DVD players, and I believe they still do. I then bought another 25 pack of these discs, as well as some Verbatim and TDK discs I bought at a local store. I was backing up many of these DVD's without really testing them, and now I am going back and watching some of them, only to find that the picture gets all, well I dont know how to explain it, but kind of big squares/digitized/choppy looking, and many times it will skip to another chapter or several minutes ahead of where it was. It now seems to be doing this on almost every disc I burn. I was wondering if anyone has heard of or experienced this problem before.

I guess I should give some other background info. I use either DVDecrypter in ISO mode if it is a single layered disc, or DVDxCopy to split it on two. It seems to happen with both of these software programs on several different media I tried.

Also, some more relevant info, the discs do this strange stuff at the same point in the disc if I go back and rewind it, but when I play it back on my Sony 500a it plays perfectly. So I am not sure if it is my DVD players, the discs, the software, or for that matter a bad burner. I dont really know how to isolate what it could be.

If anyone has any suggestions, I would really appreciate it! Thanks in advance!

[deftonzman00]

I guess I should also mention that the drive is the Master on the secondary IDE port, and that DMA is turned on.

[HyperYagami]

some brands are not as reflective as the others. in my case, my panasonic settop won't play the 4x princo (burned in 2x) nicely while everything else seems to be ok. both of my pc dvd drive play everything that i throw in perfectly however.

[deftonzman00]

This is all anyone can come up with for an answer? The thing is, is that I have tried 5 different types of media, including brand names Sony, TDK and Verbatim, and they all are doing this, which makes me wonder if it is indeed the media and not the player or software?

[vance43211]

it is either a media problem or your dvd laser intensity

buy a different brand disc and burn a movie

if you have the same problem

get a new dvd player

take your discs to the store with you

to make sure your new player doesn't do it