DVDR copy is pixelating....

[rubberman]

Made a backup of My Big Fat Greek Wedding and about half way thru it starts to pixelate. Whats the cause of this? I just switched my Pioneer104 from the true 1.32 firmware to the hacked 1.31 and burnt at 2x. Could this be the cause? I used Ritek G03 media and never had any problems like this when using this media and the true 1.32 fw.

[txpharoah]

Bad burn. Very common on the cheap silver-top discs. And especially at anything higher than 1x burns. Sorry. Try again.

[markums2k]

Backing up Greek Wedding is easier than one might think. Just copy the disc to your HD, delete the files corresponding to VTS_02_xx.xxx and burn again. All you'll miss is the full screen version of the movie, and who wants that?

[tman05]

I have the same problem. I bought some cheap media off ebay and about all the movies I've burned pixel at some point. I tried some high quailty verbatim dvd+rw and they work great. I'm confused though because the one movie which worked with the cheap media, I used dvd2one. The rest of the copies where made with instant copy. See were I'm confused, is it the media or the program, but instant copy works with dvd+rw.

[rubberman]

Well i did some other movies using Ritek at 1x and never had one problem. I have done alot of them too so i may just switch back to the firmware i was using.

[macleod]

wonder if this is the same issue (sorta) as the burning VCD/CVD/SVCD faster than 8X? For those that burned stuff in those formats before we were blessed with DVD burners, some people had problems when they would burn over 8X (and sometimes even over 4x). Of course, there was always the guy that burned at 5000000000X without a problem.

I have a DVR-105 (repackaged pioneer A05 unit) -R and I have been using the unbranded supermedia at 1X without problem. I am assuming that a 4X is not 1/4 quicker than 1X, however, it is some denomination quicker?

[txpharoah]

Bad burners are the culprits (unable to keep media balanced). They act up more on cheaper discs (balance factor of the media usually less than more expensive discs). It's really that easy. All other reasons are myths.

Check out your burn. Does it look hypercolored or uneven? If so, trash it, and get yourself a new drive. Or does it play badly near the end of the disc? Same thing, new burner.

The whole lower-speed, better-disc issue is really just a work-around that may or may not work. Of course, some media just don't work well on anything because they are so cheaply made, usually uncoated cheapos. But 99 times out of 100, it's your burner.

New 4x DVD-R take 15 minutes, so yes, it's a quarter the time of a 1x burn. Just normal math, nothing special about DVD.

[Faustus]

I've used tons of those disk, but I'm only ran into the problem once or twice that was the media or the burn speed. If a reburn doesn't fix it then how was it encoded? or was it at all?

Either way next step is likely a reburn.