Picture problems at end of disk

[t_shirley]

Hello all, I've just backed up one of my DVDs, the first time i've tried this using the DVDBackup, DVD2One, Toast 6 route, and the movie plays perfectly but towards the end the picture started to stutter and freeze. When I put the same DVD in my machine the next day and fast forwarded to the problem area it played perfectly. I played the whole thing from the beginning and it happened again. It only seems to happen if the disk is played all the way through. Any ideas?

[galactica]

typical of cheap media.
what brand did you use?

dvd players notorious for not playing cheap media smoothly at end of disk
mac is more forgiving and will play it with no problems

get a better brand media and problems should go away.


man i feel like i should make a sticky for this topic

[buddy2000]

Hi I had the same problem and for me it turned out just to be a crappy batch of blanc DVDR. Toast would verify it as OK but the whole batch of 25 (!) ended up like that. Dont buy really cheap DVDRs!!

[galactica]

what did i say
hey, you get what you pay for....

[t_shirley]

mmm. they are Packard Bell DVDs which I thought were pretty good quality. I've got another batch of TDKs maybe I should ue these. Any suggestions on make of DVDs? I should be able to just copy the files on the crappy dvd to my desktop and reburn them to a decent DVD though shouldn't I? without any other processing?

[Frobozz]

Since you have Toast 6 I would use its Disc Copy mode to copy the disc. But rather than clicking the burn button, I would choose Save as Disc Image and then burn the saved disc image to the new DVD. You also could mount the disc image and check it in DVD Player before burning.

[galactica]

agreed. you should have no problems copying the files back to your mac "hopefully" to then reburn on a different media

do the disk image method then burn that disk image to the 2nd media, this way works the best

[t_shirley]

Thanks guys, you've been great.