Liteon 5005 DVD recorder

[kenmo]

I've noticed some of my DVD recorded with this unit will start to jump or stutter... The first 1 or 2 dvds will be OK, however a 3rd or 4th will show signs of jumping or stuttering... It's not unlike when you capture something to an AVI using a TV capture card and then select the wrong field order when converting to mpeg via an encoder...

I've also noticed this can happen on a single DVD if you record in the 3 hour mode (I'm using the hacked hackware)... The first hour or two of the dvd will be fine, but the third hour will jump...

Any thoughts on how to cure this...???

Thanks

Kenmo

[SCDVD]

I have had better luck using DVD+R media on my 5005. I hear that the burner in it is more +R "friendly".

[FKrueger]

I believe it's dropping frames, one of the bugs of Liteons mentioned in this forum, I'd return it as defective, and either try another 5005, or not. I had a new ILO R04 do that out of the box, I sent it in for a factory repair and they sent me a different recorder that doesn't do it at this time.

[pinetop]

I had two 5005 both had this problem. Both went back for refund. Can you return/exchange it ?

[pinetop]

Lordsmurf,

Read this !

When I state mine strobes/stutters/shakes, you always claim you never heard such. Posts like this are all over the net and this forum.

[lordsmurf]

I've still never heard of "strobes/stutters/shakes".

Jittering, on the other hand, is a well-known problem that even LiteOn admits to. The issue is caused by overheating. It is most common on units that lack a fan or heatsink. I custom modded my LiteOn 5001, adding a fan that blows across the motherboard and out the side, as well as a heatsink on the LSI chip. The result is a unit that does not jitter unless it's run for more than 4 hours non-stop.

Some firmwares are also known to cause jitter problems, especially the hacked ones. The 3-hour LP mode was initially not included stock on these machines, possibly for this very reason. LiteOn has never said anything at all about this, not that I've seen anywhere.

The DC forums were wiped out almost a year ago at this point, so a lot of this info and interplay with LiteOn employees has been lost.

The jitter is indeed related to a dropped frame.

On my LiteOn 5104, using a disc that eventually locked up the recorder and was diagnosed as a bad disc on the computer, I did get a reverse interlace situation where I paused and unpaused during recording. So I would look into pausing, or a bad disc. I never really pause during a recording, and I threw away the bad disc. And it was on a 5104, which is not at all the same as a 5001 or 5005 unit (the 5104, for example, does AC3 audio encoding, not MP2, and it comes stock with LP 3-hour mode).

Some units jitter or just outright lock up after too many hours of use. Before you run around complaining what a bad product this is, remember you only spend about HALF as much as other machines would have run. And it does give great results used in moderation. It's clearly not a workhorse intended for non-stop industrial-like use.

That pretty much covers it.

[pinetop]

Mine would start "jittering" less than 10 minutes into a recording. I don't think it was overheating. Just a bad product.

[lordsmurf]

Actually, the chips can overheat in under 70 seconds. All chips can. Especially if the power is not done 100% perfectly.

The earliest ones were not "bad" but not good either. They were fixable, either by doing it yourself, or letting LiteOn fix it. The first DVD recorder from all companies had flaws. They all still have flaws.

[kenmo]

Lordsmurf, what was the fix...????

I find my problem to be so intermitent.... And what is odd, is I don't get the jitter back if I play the DVD on one of computers... However it does jitter if I play it back on my LiteOn recorder, Toshiba recorder or any one of my 4 dvd setop players....