DVD Playback Pauses (and one has horizontal roll)

[mattroby]

First of all - thanks to everyone for all of your expertise. I have been fitting the DVD converting/burning puzzle together slowly over the last couple of weeks and wouldn't have been able get this far without your collective help.
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I have hit a snag and, although I have looked, I don't see/kind find any posts that address this specific problem.

I'm using a P4 2.8 g, 1 gig ram, plenty of HD space (20 gigs allocated for converting files) - XP pro sp2.

I have various AVI files and use AVItoDVD to convert to burnable DVD files. I don't tweak anything in AVIto DVD (I leave the same screen ratio/audio settings). It converts and I am then able to burn the file. I have used various converting options all with the same effect)

I burn the DVD using NERO burning ROM (I got with the DVD burner - Nero 6). I have a relatively new ASUS DVD burner - and I have cut the burn rate from 8x to 4x (although I have tried both).

The DVD burns fine - and they work on my Toshiba DVD player (I think it's Toshiba - I'm at work now and it's at home - probably playing Little Mermaid for my girls).

However, at various points, the burned DVD movies pause during playback. It doesn't seem to have any reason to pause - it's not at a chapter - and it pauses in different places with different movies (for example, Movie 1 will pause in the same place each time it is played - like at 10:25, for example - while Movie 2 will also pause in the same place each time it is played - like at 25:25 and 26:30 (those times are just for explanatory purposes, not the actual time it pauses)).

I don't do anything, or have any programs running while converting OR burnng - and the processor doesn't seem to be overheating or overworked.

I have checked and installed all of the newest drivers, windows updates, Nero updates and patches.

Finally - on just one movie (and I guess this is a separate problem - but maybe not) I follow the above described converting/burning procedures - and yet playback has a horizontal roll - just like you used to get on your old TV set.

The only other thing I can think of is that the DVD player is connected to the TV (just a regular TV) via component cable - the one with the red, blue and green - not the RCA composite connection or S-Video.

Commercial DVDs play fine - it's only the DVDs that I burn that has problems. (Imation DVDs RW +/- 4.7 gigs).

Let me know if you need additional information from me to help figure this out.

Thanks in advance.

[Baldrick]

Have you tried other dvdmedia than imation?
And try another converter like convertxtodvd too see if it helps.

Horizontall roll is probably because of PAL, be sure to set output NTSC in your converter.

[mattroby]

Thanks Baldrick -

No, I haven't tried any other media.

I am trying Convertxtodvd right now and will try the PAL to NTSC on that one movie soon.

Two other things -

1) The DVD player is a Pioneer
2) The media is imation + R x16

Don't know if this makes much of a difference.