DVD-R Playback on PS2

[RealaT]

I don't know whether this belongs in the DVD Players forum or in the Authoring and burning forum because the problem could be either. Anyway I flipped a coin and here i am

I'm having problems with dvd-rs i've made playing on my PS2 console (SCPH 30003). I'm using Datasafe Gen-3 dvd-rs so i'm pretty sure it's not the media at fault, I was using princo discs and they wouldn't even start playing half the time.

I've been rippind dvds and encoding them using kwag's KDVD Half template in order to fit 4 films on 1 disc. These discs play back fine on my dvd player (toshiba sd220e), but when I try them on my ps2 the film keeps speeding up, then stopping to allow the audio to catch up, and then repeating this every second or so.

I also have this problem even when I use the standard TMPGenc DVD template and use dvdit to covert to dolby sound.

Does anyone have any suggestions how to remedy this, surely some people can get home made dvd-rs to work on ps2?

[SLK001]

PS2s are very picky on their acceptable media. The only brand that I have had any success with on a PS2 was branded Verbatims (but I stopped looking once I found that they worked). Nothing else worked up to the Verbatims.

[IonNuke]

I have gotten some Princo 2x dvd-rs to work. Most of my DVDPro 1x discs work and the Pioneer branded work also.

I have a SCPH-10000 (very first japanese consoles)...dunno if that matters or not.

[RealaT]

I don't think it's the media at fault because i can actually remedy the film by pausing / stopping and then playing again (although this only works about once every 10 times i try). Also i tried my friend's ps2, which is a later model, and his does the same thing, only more rapidly.

The stopping and starting is very consistent (ie. not random, does it every second or so at exactly the same 'rhythm') this is why i think it's due to the actual file it's trying to play, and not the media. The princo discs do the same thing, but they also have additional pauses where you can here the laser struggling.