DVD player has problems playing VBR DVD-Rs (Pioneer)

[Sonat99]

Hi

I have a Pioneer DV-535 DVD player. I am making home videos on DVD-R. When I do this my settings VBR 6000 kbs, 720*576, 25 f/s, 48000Hz 224 b/sec audio, which are the standard settings for PAL DVD. The DVD-R (TDK) is 1.5 hrs long. Burner: Pioneer A04, burning at the slowes speed to avoid compatibilty problems. After watching the DVD for an hour without a problem it starts getting all blocky and freezes. Tried the same DVD on different players have faced the same problem on some, on different time segments of the video. I edit with Ulead Video Studio 7.0 and burn with their software.

Is this a software problem or is it because some DVD players are more sensitive to VBR. But then if you make DVDs with CBR the space won't be enough on the DVD-R.


Thank you in advance for any feedback
Sonat Schulz

[wulf109]

It's the software or authoring process your using. All retail DVD's are VBR and they play on your DVD,don't they?

[Sonat99]

Yes retail DVDs do play without a problem.

I have just done a CBR version of the same video, and burnt with Ulead software, this one worked fine on the Pioneer. It's quite weird.

I have just started doing freelance editing for home videos. THinking that everybody has different types of DVD players I am trying to set a standard for the DVDs I will produce for my customers. VBR is scaring me as it can cause incompatibilities. Should I go for VBR DVD-Rs or am I wrong here?

Thank you so much for taking time in answering
Sonat Schulz

[adebov]

It might be a daft suggestion, that may have already occured to you, have you tried different media? - Try a nice Ritek

Your reports match, exactly the problem most of us have when using iffy media.

My Pioneer player (737) does not like bad media - most drop-outs start around the 1 hour mark and get worse towards the outside of the disc (if the disc plays that long).