Video usually choppy after 1 hour of playback.

[fdesbois]

I have copied many dvd's but lately I scrap a lot of media. When I burn a movie and watch it, usually at around 1 hour to 1:30 hour mark the movie is choppy then stops completely.....any ideas????

Athlon XP 2200+, 512 ddr. Pioneer A05.
DVD copy express
or DVD decrypter+DVD2ONE+Copy2DVD

[fdesbois]

I meant ripped many movies, sorry...........

[loc2loan]

Have you ever tried the burnatonce? I never riped any dvd at all. All I use is Burnatonce and it only take 20-25 minutes for a full dvd movie. Give it a try see it will fix your problems. Good luck.

[fdesbois]

Thanks I will try it........but I tried many......Fingers crossed

[Phil Thomas]

Sounds like a media issue to me.

Try using Ritek disks

[fdesbois]

I was using Optodisk...
No good or what?????

[Phil Thomas]

Haven't seen Optodisk in the UK, so I cant comment, maybe one of the US guys will advise you.

I gather they are budget price (80 cents), so it may well be this is your problem. Certainly the fault you describe is consistent with poor media, which often gives out towards the end of the disk.

[Gurm]

In the USA, if you're buying DVD's retail, they cost $2 each for GOOD discs.

If you're buying BULK mail-order you can usually score Ritek's for $1.50 or less. Maybe as low as $1.25, but if you see a 10-pack for $10 in the store... they're CRAP.

- Gurm

[fdesbois]

OK guys.....this one will be weird....
I defraged my drive, did one backup ok, the second one was choppy.
I defraged again and it worked....Bad Hard drive??????

[Phil Thomas]

What you are describing is typical of cheap media ... one disk works, the next disk doesn't ... they are not consistent.

The fact that you defragged your drive in between and got a good result, is probably a "red herring".

Try a batch of decent disks and you will get decent results.

[fdesbois]

You are right....It scrapped another.....Only one thing I used these DVD's in the past to back up more than 200 films....bad batch....
I will try the ritek if I can put my hands on them.,,..,

Thanks. Will keep you posted.

[loc2loan]

I have used the unbrand named DVD-r media. I did not get any coaster yet. It costed me only $.90 per dvd. I am using burnatonce. However, I did tried use nero before. If you use nero, before you burn make sure you delete all the temp file, then restart your computer. It will works fine. That's what I did when I am using nero. It is slower than burnatonce if you just copy DVD to DVD-r. The best one is burnatonce (only 25 minutes). I had tried many program already. Burnatonce is the best. It will keep all the menu, chapters, just like the master one. Evenmore, you can play on any stand alone DVD player. Good luck.

[northcat_8]

You have almost exactly the same box as I do. 2.2 AMD Athlon, XP pro, 512 DDR, 2-80 GB Maxtors (in a stripe 0 RAID array), ATI Radeon 7000 series, Pioneer DVR-105.

Difference comes in...I use RitekG04 media.

I would venture to say that better than 85% of all playback problems are media related. Especially if you check the DVD before you burn it. The burner only burns what you send it. I have never had a bad burn. If the DVD played on my PC then it has played on anything I put it in from Playstation to Panasonic. That did not happen on my first DVD when I used a memorex DVD-R, a 5 pack I bought when I bought my burner, it would play on some but on others it would hang, get pixelated, and eventually stop. Someone told me to use Ritek Media, I bought a spindle of Ritek's at shop4tech and have never used anything else since. The other 4 memorex DVD-R's are still in their plastic.

I do original DVD work, like highlight films of their kids, vacations, weddings, etc. I only use Ritek and I have never had anyone tell me they couldn't play it. I have well over 500 DVD's I have made for people floating around, Ritek is the one.

[Gurm]

There are exceptions to what Northcat has said, but in essence I agree with him.

The sorts of incompatibilities that exist between various pieces of burning software and various set-top boxes are really small in the grand scheme of things. 1% of errors, maybe less. 99% are bad media.

CD burning used to be like this. LOTS of bad media. Nowadays not so much... but you still get it. My brother in law bought the "48x certified" media on sale at Staples a couple months back, and every damn disc skips and crackles if he used it for audio, or has CRC errors if he used it for data. *shrug*

- Gurm