DMR-E30 recording

[rustre]

Just recently picked up the Panasonic DMR-E30. So far I have only used Verbatim Datalife Plus DVD-R discs. The first few I copied came out fine after finalizing. I notice that some copies will pixelate really bad and break up towards the end. It doesn't happen with every Verbatim disc, maybe about half of them. I am running S-Video in and audio in from a DVD player.

I know some people have used these same discs with the exact same unit with no trouble. Any insight, or suggestions as to why some discs will pixelate during playback would be very helpful.

[pan-dmre30s]

I can tell you two reasons from my experience.

1. bad sectors on the disc.

Try reading the files into your computer and you will get errors
even though it finalized.

Any time you get a disc with more recordings than you planned it is due to many sector errors on the disc and the unit starting a new video set automatically.

Some times the errors may cause a U11 unreadable media error and shutdown your unit.
this disc is trashed and can be discarded.


2. Encoding issues burned onto disc.

That is data is encoded with the pixelation and the disc is fine.

This happened once on a really poor VHS source tape.

Vob file reads off disc fine with no errors.
but the Mpeg video stream has issues.

Never used that particular disc type. but my unit and setup is the same.

[pluche]

If I understood your message correctly: your "source" is a DVD player; so if you are trying to copy DVD's you might get problems depending on the protection;
I have a DMRE20 since +- 1.5 year; I've used several brands of media, including cheap ones and have not had one single failure; at worst the recorder did not accept a given dvd before it started burning so I could still use that disc on my computer for burning something else
I've burned in the various modes going from XP to EP and FR; no problems

[thxkid]

check for finger prints or smudges towards the outside of the disc on the record side