DVD freeze on laptop, but not player

[neonx]

Hi there,

I just can't wrap my head around this one. I have a project I edited in PPro, encoded to MPEG2, and made menus and burnt using Ulead Workshop.

Then my customer wanted more copies, so I scanned it using Shrink to turn it into VOP files etc, cos I couldn't work out how to burn multiple copies from Ulead (bad idea anyway, I think). This time I burned using Nero 6. (I know I used a lot of tools, but I've been learning as I go...)

Ok, the problem: the final DVD plays fine on my computer, and on my cheap-o Phillips DVD player, but freezes towards the end on my customer's laptop. I thought it would be a hardware problem, but he's since said he's tried it on another laptop, and the same thing happens.

Could it just be bad media? I'm using TDK DVD-R. The total size of the file I'm burning is less than 1GB, so it's not like I'm stuffing the disc to capacity.

Thanks for any help.

[canadateck]

How many do this just one? It could be the media or Somthing happend while burning.

[neonx]

It seems to be happening everytime I burn now. About 3 or 4 discs so far.

[canadateck]

They now do it in your DVD players?Try to do a direct, copy to copy, it seems that it maybe the media.I have never used TDK, but that does seem to be the problem.

[neonx]

This is ridiculous. I've just burnt another disc, and this one is working. Same media. Maybe just a few dodgey discs in the stack?

Another thing, the discs that aren't working have labels on them (that I stuck there, proper CD labels). Could the labels have anything to do with it? The disc that is ok doesn't have one. Yet.

[canadateck]

Wow could be some bad one's in the stack, Not sure about the labels,some people think they are great, and other's well not so great...lol

[neonx]

Bah. Seems to be a hit-and-miss thing now. Think I'll get better media in the future. And no more stickers.

[Nilfennasion]

The TDK DVD+Rs I have used have worked wonderfully, a tendency to pause for a fraction of a second that seems to have been traced to the unreliability of local power aside.

I would just stop using labels. An early batch of five that I burned had adhesive labels put on them, and all sorts of strange things happened during playback. I reburned the discs and kept the labels off - problem solved.

[neonx]

Ok, no more stickers. Seems to be working so far...Thanks for the advice.