Video pixellation on DVD playback...

[mjl1297]

I recently burnt a disc that we watched on my DVD player at home with our church's home study group. Afterwards I gave it to one of the women that attends our sessions because she wished to watch it again. There were no issues during playback on my DVD player but she told me that when she watched it at home there were periods of short lived pixellation in the image. Since then I have given her other discs on different media to try and she reports the same problem. I'm thinking this is an issue with her DVD player which is a Magnavox brand but is there anything she could do that might possibly remedy this? Would a lens cleaning disc be worth her while as the solution would have to be something simple as a disassembly of the unit would be beyond her I fear. Many thanks.

I burnt these discs using DVDstyler after encoding the videos in Freemake if that is any help.

[lowellriggsiam]

Try running an optical lense cleaner through it, then thou wouldn't have to open it. The problem could be that her's is a Magnavox. Even, though unlikely, it could be the difference between using a +R, or a -R disc. If her dvd player is an older one it could easily be having compatibility issues.

[mjl1297]

Her player is a couple of years old and the media is DVD-R. I was wondering if the write speed on my PC drive could be causing the problem. I have it at auto and there have been no issues with my players but I wonder if I should drop the speed?

[lowellriggsiam]

Write speed will make no difference, it's just being transfered to the DVD, and her player will only play it at whatever rate the DVD data need to be read. Is this DVD a homemade DVD?

[mjl1297]

Yes.

[lowellriggsiam]

The recommended course of action would be to try it on another persons DVD player, see if you can replicate the proplem. If the problem is not replicated then odviously it's her DVD player. If the problem is replicated it might help to know the source of the material, what method was used, and what media it was being burnt to. Else you could try reprocessing the dvd through a program like Nero Recode.

[mjl1297]

As I mentioned in my first post it isn't doing it on my DVD players so that's already been done. The reason I asked about the write speed is that I read in another forum if a disc is burned at too high of a write speed some players--especially older players-- may have issues reading it.

[classfour]

Her player may not like the brand of media that you're using - and I've actually found burn speed, and the quality of the resulting burn - to affect playback.

As a test: download Nero CDspeed and perform a quality test. If you see a score of less than 90%, cut your burn speed down (it doesn't add that much time between 24X and 12X) and test again. If it brings the score up: burn speed could be affecting the quality of your discs.

Even though I have two 24X burners in this machine: I burn at 12X (8X is too slow) to get the best burn results. Of course, this machine has alot of programs installed, so a typical burn at 12X uses 25 to 35% of the resources (CPU, RAM). multi-tasking can push that percentage - and cause a burn to fail.

[lowellriggsiam]

I have seen no evidence that write speed makes any difference in playack, just sometimes makes coasters. Are you saying that both your dvd players are different?

[mjl1297]

I have actually used two different brands of media on the discs I have given her--Sony DVD-R and Philips DVD-R and she has reported issues with both although there were no problems on my DVD players. Our DVD players are a different brand. Hers is a Magnavox and mine is a Pioneer.

I was thinking of trying the next burn at around 8-12x speed. I may also put it on some of my Verbatim stock but I was really hoping the Philips media would work as I have a bunch of that I would like to use for something.

[rcubed]

mjl1297,
I had problems with one of my friends older DVD player playing disks. The problem in this case was the refusal of the player to recognize the disk. This does not appear however to be your problem. The problem was solved by burning with DVD+R and setting the book type to DVD-ROM. ImgBurn has features to control this. Depending on the burner not all can set the book type. Recommended DVD media Tayio Yudin or Verbatim Data Life (not value life).

rcubed

[intracube]

I have seen no evidence that write speed makes any difference in playack

http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Reviews/Specific.aspx?ArticleId=20949&PageId=0



For important data, I burn to single layer DVD-R (Verbatim 'AZO') discs at 8x speed - in the hope that it will increase the longevity of the discs.