DVD video problem?

[pantherman85]

I have been burning backups using DVD Rebuilder with CCE basic for the last month and things have run perfectly. All of a sudden the last movies I have been burning have all turned out to play with digital picture errors on the video playback in the DVD player(which has always worked fine before). I don't understand what has changed. I't has done this with multiple DVD's so I don't think that it's the DVD's being scratched or something. I'm extremely frustrated because I went from being able to play movies perfectly without any errors to having a bunch of digital squares on the screen making enjoying a movie unbearable.

Could it be I am doing too much multitasking on the computer while the DVD file is encoding through CCE basic? Could it be that the DVD's that i ripped onto the computer needed to be cleaned before hand? Could it be that something is wrong with my DVD burner? Could it be I need to free up memory on the Computer?

I would appreciate any advice, thanks.

[Matt D]

Have you changed media? What kind of errors are you getting? Stuttering, blockiness?
In my experience, the cleanliness of the DVD has no effect as long as you don't get errors ripping it. I've backed up dvd's that were so scratched they were unplayable in a standalone, but the backups play perfectly.
Doing other tasks while encoding only affects the time it takes. I haven't noticed any errors due to this working with TMPGEnc, but maybe CCE is different.

[johns0]

Sounds like the media you are using went from ok to crap,this can happen with any media,even good quality but with cheap media it happens far more often.

[pantherman85]

"Sounds like the media you are using went from ok to crap,this can happen with any media,even good quality but with cheap media it happens far more often."

I'm knew to all this burning stuff, what specifically do you mean by media?

[johns0]

Media=dvd blanks.

[pantherman85]

"Media=dvd blanks."

Huh, I don't understand though, how could the same DVD blanks that have worked great in the past all of a sudden not work?

[pantherman85]

I did change Media for a second, but after those DVD's didn't work well I then went back to my old DVD's that had always worked fine, but are now also messed up. Mostly blockiness, sometimes small jumps in the video.

Have you changed media? What kind of errors are you getting? Stuttering, blockiness?
In my experience, the cleanliness of the DVD has no effect as long as you don't get errors ripping it. I've backed up dvd's that were so scratched they were unplayable in a standalone, but the backups play perfectly.
Doing other tasks while encoding only affects the time it takes. I haven't noticed any errors due to this working with TMPGEnc, but maybe CCE is different.

[guns1inger]

Could be a dirty laser in your player, or simply it is getting old. My first Pioneer started doing that after about 6 years of pretty heavy use.

[pantherman85]

Could be a dirty laser in your player, or simply it is getting old. My first Pioneer started doing that after about 6 years of pretty heavy use.

I have had this Memorex for only a year and it has not been under much heavy use.

[pantherman85]

"Have you changed media?"

Actually i just realized that I changed from TDK8x DVD+R(which worked perfectly) to TDK8x DVD-R, could that be the problem, the plus and minus signs be the difference between perfect play and blocky errors???

[Matt D]

It depends on the player. Some will not correctly play -R but will play +R and the opposite is also true. If that's the only thing you've changed, I'd say it's a good possibilty that this is your problem.

[blood1]

this may sound odd but try unplugging your player and then retry.i have a player that has a hard time switching format +- , i have to unplug it so it plays each one,or it will act up if i switch back and forth.