dvd freezing

[mircthommo]

hello, can anyone help?

after i encode and burn a project to DVD, it plays fine for about an hour, then it starts to jutter and finally freeze up completely, anyone know how i can correct this problem.

[daamon]

Hi mircthommo,

What media are you using? What app are you using to do the burn?

It's probably bad media (either one disc, or the brand).

More info will elicit more replys as people have something to go on...

[louthewiz]

Cheap media is the culprit.

[mircthommo]

i have used various makes of disks from Imation to Packard Bell and i have tryed burning with Nero, Tmpg dvd authoring and also DVD-lab

all have produced the same problem and it always seems to be about an hour into the film.

please please please can someone help

[Dr. DOS]

DVDInfo Pro and get the DVD Mfg ID.... gotta use good discs. for my Honda Van it doesn't even like ProdiscS01 media.

Buy Maxell or Fuji.... both with a Japanese heritage and you will be guaranteed of good media (today anyhow)

[Capmaster]

i have used various makes of disks from Imation to Packard Bell and i have tryed burning with Nero, Tmpg dvd authoring and also DVD-lab

all have produced the same problem and it always seems to be about an hour into the film.

please please please can someone help

What brands have you tried? "From Imation to Packard Bell" implies you only tried media beginning with the letters "I" through "P", which includes Maxell. If that was Japan-made Maxell then I'd say it isn't the media. If it was Taiwan-made then it could still be the media, depending on your burner model.

[ZiggyDeath]

you know, i had the same problem, though it happens much quicker

it might be a problem with the audio bitrate, as weird as it might sound.
I have a Pioneer DV-535 which had problems playing some anime that i authored using DVD Lab-Pro. The audio bitrate was at 224(2 channels), which essentially froze instantly, however, when i set it down to 192, it could play for a few minutes before freezing.

It wasn't a media problem, since back uped movies played fine, plus the discs played fine on another even CHEAPER set top player, although, it is much newer.

[mircthommo]

not having problems with sound, i even get good ac3 and dts reproduction, it just the picture, if i stop the dvd and then restart at the start of the chaprter that froze, it runs fine again for about 10 mins, then freeze's.

i have even got sony dvdrw disks and they freeze too, oh and by the way, i have tried dvd+ and dvd- and yet the problem still happens,

some one told me that it could be due to the overfill of the dvd players memory, which personaly i think is a load of bull.

still awaiting the viable answer

[daamon]

Hi mircthommo,

I've just remembered something that happened only once, and quite a while ago that may be your problem - I had the exact same symptoms on media that was otherwise OK and using a method and source files I'd used many times before.

It turned out to be that that particular section was a particularly high bitrate and was seemingly causing problems.

I re-encoded the source (was using 2 pass VBR) but set a lower maximum so that the total of audio bitrate + max video bitrate didn't exceed 9,600.

Now, there will be some that spout on about "the max is 10.08 Mbps" etc. - that may be true, but it worked for me and the slight drop in bitrate didn't noticably affect the picture quality.

Give it a go... Let us know how you get on.

[mircthommo]

ok, confused about the bit rate part, when i encode its telling me video bitrate is 3007 and with the audio its only 4000kbps,

where does the 9100mbps come into it, i cant even get it that high

[daamon]

...when i encode its telling me...

What are you using to encode? What is "it"?

Also, that strongly suggests that your audio bitrate is nearly 1,000kbps. What audio format are you using? WAV = 1,536kbps. AC3 and MP2 are more likely to be in the 128 - 256 ish kinda range...

[mircthommo]

this has obviously become a complicated question, please remember that i'm a newbie, so a lot of this has already gone over my head

where am i looking in tmpg to see what the video and audio bitrates are,

[daamon]

Hi mircthommo,

OK, let's start at the beginning and work through logically - we got sidetracked thinking it was probably media, but that seems less likely (though not discounted) given the different types you've tried.

So, a few questions to establish what you're doing:

1. What are you encoding - i.e. what is your source file? Is it an AVI of some sort, a .mov file, a.wmv file?

2. Use AVICodec on the file and post a screenprint of the file's details (it'll answer question 1 too).

3. Explain, step-by-step, in a broken down way what you're doing in TMPGEnc:
...a) Are you using the wizard? What template?
...b) What settings (if any) are you changing?
...c) Which radio button is selected in the bottom right of the window (ES, System) which one?.

The more info the better...

4. When TMPGenc has finished, how many files do you get and what is / are the extension(s)? .m2v, .mpg, .mp2 etc.

That'll do for starters... Once we get answers to that we may be able to figure out any probelms there that are appearing later. If not, we'll go on to the next step of investigation...