DVD pauses durring playback

[cobra jet]

I have having a problem with a project that I am working on. I am under a crunch because I will be showing at my son’s basketball team party this Sunday. When I play it on my DVD player that usually is very reliable it has about 5 points in the DVD where it pauses for about a second or two. I used Premiere Pro 2.0 to edit my clips. I exported the timeline to my hard drive using the “Adobe Media Encoder” built into Premiere Pro. Once that was done I used DVD Author 2.0 to make my DVD menu and output it to my hard drive. I then burned it to DVD using Nero following a link I found here http://www.digitalfaq.com/dvdguides/authorburn/nerodvd/nerodvd.htm
What should I start looking at first? Below is a screen print of the settings I am using to export.
Thanks
Mark

[guns1inger]

1. Test play it from your HDD to make sure it isn't a source issue. Start with the mpeg source out of Premiere, then move onto the output from TDA

2. Assuming the step showed the source and compiled DVD to OK, the next suspect is burning and/or media. Try burning with ImgBurn, instead of Nero. Test play in your player to see if it is OK.

3. Finally - what media are you burning to ? Poor media gives poor playback.

[NiteLite]

I have having a problem with a project that I am working on.
What should I start looking at first?

1st...Media used.
That would help along with brand of writer and if tried any other writing software.
Hope you can get some help after posting some more info.
Regards,
NL

>edit>posted same time as guns1inger but you get the picture.

[cobra jet]

My burner is a Sony DVD RW DRU-500A. I have had it for a couple of years now.
I am using Verbatim -R disks.
I have not tried any other writing software.
I was able to play the output from TDA using Power DVD with out any problems at all.
I burned a second disk from the TDA output using Nero again and at least one of the pauses came in the same spot.
I played the disk in my Yamaha DVD player and it worked fine. The strange part about it is in the past my Yamaha player would sometimes pause on the DVD’s I made and my Panasonic TV/DVD player was the one that always played my burned DVD’s.
I was wondering if I was using to high of a CBR (7.51 Mbps). I bumped it down from 8.08 but that did no help. Is it still to high?
The file that Premiere is making is an M2V not an MPEG if that matters.

Thanks

[guns1inger]

m2v is just the mpeg-2 video stream, so there is no real difference.

CBR 8.08 is not high, IMO. I take CBR to 9400 kbps without issue.

Try Imgburn and see if it helps. It has an excellent (arguably the best) DVD Video burning engine.

[oldandinthe way]

Your writer is a 4x writer. Are you using recent media like 16x.

Your drive may need a firmware update. Certainly you should try one. It also may be producing marginal output because it lacks a proper write strategy for the media, and may not even after a firmware update be able to write DVDs which are compatible with all players.

Many older 4x drives are falling by the wayside as new media takes over the market. Fortunately new drives a very inexpensive.

[cobra jet]

I took "oldandinthe way"'s advice and purchased a new Liteon 16X burner. I have burned 6 DV D's on it and not one pause.
Thanks