DVD skips like crazy.

[tmac2085]

i've been using ridata dvd+rs from newegg forever now and have never had a problem burning dvds. and ever since I got this newer looking batch of ridata dvd+rs I've been having problems. when I convert my avi files to dvd with convertxtodvd it completes all the way, when I burn it, it takes awhile for nero to get going, but it successfully burns. when I play it and try to skip to the next chapter it just locks up and I have to turn off my dvd player. but instead of skipping chapters and playing the movie all the way through, it works, but skips like every 20 seconds and finally freezes. we also have a storm not to long ago so I was thinking it might be my dvd burner, it is a pretty old one. should I just buy a different brand of dvdrs and try it again, and if it doesn't work then we know its gotta be the dvd burner? any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks!

[guns1inger]

Crap media. Buy TY or Verbatim or even TDK and see if you have more success. Buy a 10 pack and test. if you still have the same problems, then the burner might be the cause.

[tmac2085]

anyone else agree with this solution?

[mats.hogberg]

Totally.

/Mats

[videopoo]

Not necessarily - what was your bitrate and what kind of audio did you author with?

[tmac2085]

I got some TDK and its taking over 15mins to burn! its burning at 16x and shouldn't take this long. also the buffer in nero is going from 0% to 100% bacl and forth, back and forth. so apparently its my burner. also I don't author my audio. I just let convertxtodvd do its trick and then burn the files. any recommendations on dvd burners from newegg? thanks!

[mk2006]

I got some TDK and its taking over 15mins to burn! its burning at 16x and shouldn't take this long. also the buffer in nero is going from 0% to 100% bacl and forth, back and forth. so apparently its my burner. also I don't author my audio. I just let convertxtodvd do its trick and then burn the files. any recommendations on dvd burners from newegg? thanks!

The 0-100 thing happened to me once when I messed with Nero BurningROM just as it was starting to sort files. The result was total crap. I have a couple of suggestions for you:
* Make sure nothing else is running when you doing your burning
* Don't burn at top speed. Buy high speed media, then burn at the lowest speed allowed, epecially movies. Don't forget that stand-alone DVD players are really designed to read pressed media not burnt.

As an aside, I have an LG burner and I found that Imation media works best with it. It's MCC003 manufactured by Verbatim, but it actually woks better than Verbatim.

[mats.hogberg]

...and use ImgBurn to burn Video DVD (and everything else, for that matter).

/Mats

[tmac2085]

...and use ImgBurn to burn Video DVD (and everything else, for that matter).

/Mats

Well, i tried imgburn...i converted my DVD files to an img and burned. Right when it starts burning...the dvd burner revs up...and then it sounds like it dies out. But eventually it finishes burning, and when i skip through the DVD near the last chapter it freezes up again...im getting coasters out the ass...lol. does this sound like my dvd burn is messed up or what? it seems to burn music CDs without a problem. Thanks for all the help guys...

[redwudz]

You don't need to convert to a image to use ImgBurn. Just use 'Build' mode and you can burn your VIDEO_TS folder directly.

One thing you might check is to see if your burner has reverted to PIO mode.

To check DMA/PIO mode within Windows:

Control Panel>System>Hardware>Device Manager>IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers.

From there, right click on one of the channels and choose 'Properties>Advanced Settings'. All drives should be DMA mode. The 'Current Transfer Mode' for Hard drives is usually DMA 4-6 and DVD burners DMA 2-4, DVD ROMs usually DMA 2. If you see any in PIO mode, that can slow things down.

Changing them back may be easy or complicated. First see if you can change them in that window. If not, I usually uninstall the channel the drive is on and let the OS reinstall it. This will usually take a reboot. This will not damage any files on the computer.

Not that likely, but worth checking.

[mats.hogberg]

near the last chapter it freezes up again...

That sure sounds like "bad" media. Make the video smaller, not exceeding 4.1-4.2 GB. I habitually do this, as I deliberately use cheap media. Staying away from the outer part of the disk keeps me in the clear. A few MB doesn't affect video quality noticeably.

/Mats

[tmac2085]

mats.hogberg...

howcome in the past it worked flawlessly? and now its messing up? I tried burn a different movie and got this error:

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g231/tmac2085/Untitled.jpg

[mats.hogberg]

Maybe a bad batch? Not unheard of. All I'm saying is: read errors at the end of a movie (=at the outer edge of the disk) is the symptom of bad medial. Of course, it could be a symptom for something else too.

/Mats

[tmac2085]

I've burnt two movies with two different brand name dvds, I really don't know whatelse to do besides purchase a new burner.

[Noahtuck]

I've burnt two movies with two different brand name dvds, I really don't know whatelse to do besides purchase a new burner.

You do know that brandname means absolutely NOTHING!!!!!

You could buy the same "brandname" media at 4 diff. times and each batch could have been made by a completely diff. manufacturer.

Most "Brandnames" just buy/have manufactured for them, in bulk, and stamp their name on them

[tmac2085]

so in conclusion...a new burner is the way to go?

[tmac2085]

from looking at burners on newegg, i found this one. tell me what you guys think:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106055

thanks!

[hech54]

Stop mucking about with downloaded AVI files as a source in order to test a bad burner or bad media theory. Skipping near the end of the disc is normally a crappy media issue BUT when it happens with two manufacturers I tend to think about looking elsewhere for the problem.

[tmac2085]

could you point me into the direction that i need to look? I haven't messed with any of my burning software at all, so it can't be that.

[videopoo]

Like I said before....whats your bitrate and did you use AC3 audio?

[tmac2085]

i let convertxtodvd do its thing....i don't mess with anything, besides disabling the burning feature. so whatever that program uses, is that i do.

[videopoo]

Your limited to 9.8 Mb/s - audio and video combined....Do some more research and find out what bitrate it uses...other than that I can't help.

[tmac2085]

audio format is set to automatic...not sure where to look for video.

[tmac2085]

what would cause my dvd burner to rev up like 5-6 times before starting to burn, its never done this before?

[redwudz]

When you insert DVD media into a burner and start the burn process, the first thing it does is to do a 'test burn' in a area near the center of the disc. This is the power calibration burn. The 'revving up' may be part of the testing and your burner may be having problems doing the calibration burn.

But you would have got a power calibration error if it had failed. Other than that, I don't know. That behavior is more common when reading a disc. It could be trying to burn at too high a power level and speeding up the disc to compensate. But those are just guesses.

ConvertX is a very solid program. It would be very unusual for it to create a bad or out of spec DVD folder without quitting before finished the conversion. So I don't think it's a cause of problems. And, though I'm no fan of Nero, it does very well at just simple burns. Not likely a problem either.

You have tried at least one different brand of DVD media, you could try another, but your bad results are consistent with your original failures. So probably not the DVD media as the problem.

That leaves two possibilities, the burner or something in the computer that is causing communication problems with the burner. Those type of communication problems would almost always show up in the burning program log file. Have you looked at the Nero or ImbBurn log files?

What might be happening is that your burner is overheating towards the end of the burn. That could cause problems similar to bad media.

Just my opinion, but at this point I would replace the DVD burner. That Lite-On burner would be fine. I've use Lite-On, Pioneer, LG, Sony, Benq and a few other brands I don't recall at present. They were all inexpensive burners and I've never had any failures from any of them. I do use TY media at present. But I used Prodisc when they were good quality and never had the type of problems you are experiencing.

[sacajaweeda]

Shut down any unnecessary processes in Task Manager. Make sure your IDEs are not in PIO mode. Use quality media. If you still have problems at that point you can begin to suspect the burner itself.

[tmac2085]

not quite sure if it was my burner. I just got this one in mail

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16827136118

and when i went to try to burn a 3GB movie with nero it went for 13 mins and showed it had 13 to go at 16x. What the crap?

[tmac2085]

i also just tried to burn the same movie with ImgBurn and its burning only at 1.5x so it sounds like there is a communication problem. Do i need to buy more IDE/ribbon cables or what?

[mats.hogberg]

Perhaps your writer is in PIO mode? It should be in DMA. If you search here, it's been on the subject of many threads in the past.

/Mats

[tmac2085]

thank you...i'll give it a shot.