DVD goes blippy during second half...

[kelemvor]

Oops, just noticed this should be in the DVD to DVDR forum. Can someone move it for me?

Anyway,

I got a new Lite-On +- burner when they were on sale 2 weeks ago and finally tried it out. I attempted to copy one of my own DVDs just to see how it works since I don't have my VCR tapes ready that I want to put on DVDs.

I used some 1x speed DVD-Rs from CompUSA (10 for $8, couldn't pass them up to try).

WHen I watched the copy, the first 45 minutes - 1 hour or so was great. Then it started having problems. First it would just kind of get stuck a bit in a place and skip a second or two forwards or backwards. THen it'd start pauzsing for 30 seconds or so in places, then it started jumping all over the place and going back 5 chapters and such. I ended up not being able to watch the end of the movie because it got so bad.

Would this most likely be caused because the DVDs were low quality or the drive had problems? Since the first half was just fine I thought maybe it had problems writing the second half and it might have soemthing to do with the drive not spinning fast enough or something.

I'm really not sure but just thought I'd get some feedback since I've not used a DVD burner before. I did watch one other disc I made and it was much, much better (only had a couple blips) which was made on the same DVDs, same Burner, etc... so maybe it was just a fluke.

Ah well. Any thoughts?

Thanks.

[Gurm]

Cheap media.

- Gurm

[fritzi93]

Probably cheap media. But there may be another possibility. Did your writer come with the latest firmware? Bear with me a moment. When I analyze for read errors with DVDINFOpro, I find that the disks I burned before firmware upgrade have hundreds of errors. Those burned after have almost none. Media brand makes no diff in this instance, the only correlation is with whether they were burned before or after flashing.

Now, my players are evidently fairly tolerant of errors, but some of those early burns occasionally go haywire, doing things similar to what you describe. Cleaning the disk and the player's lens always fixes it. This tells me the disks are just barely playable.

Also, what burning app do you use? It would help if you gave some particulars.