Questions about freezing and burning problems

[90blackcrx]

First question, when using DVD shrink it always seems to give me DVD burn incomplete when I use 8x speed. Yes my disc are 8x. When I use 6x everything works fine, why though ?

Second question, I have bought a few DVD's from best buy and I wanted to back them up, now some of these DVD my cd rom drive will not recognize them, so I put them in my DVD-r burner and I decrypt the files onto my hard drive. But when ever I do this, in 1 part the movie will not play past. Why would this happen ? If I ever backup the DVD from the DVD ( not from the files from the hard drive ) everything works out ok.

So what would cause this freezing problem, and what can I do about my cd-rom not recognizing some of my DVD's ?

[daamon]

Hi 90blackcrx,

Freezing is a common symptom of poor media - either the brand in general or that particular disc isn't 100%.

I've also seen freezing where the bitrate (audio + video) of an encoded MPEG was too high (either out of the range in the specs, or just too high for the player). But, this won't apply in your case.

...and what can I do about my cd-rom not recognizing some of my DVD's ?

If you really mean "CD-ROM" and "DVDs" then I'm surprised it's recognising any of them. If you mean either "DVD-ROM and DVDs" or "CD-ROM and CDs" then that's more realistic.

As for the problem: What error message do you get when it doesn't recognise them? What is your CD/DVD-ROM drive (Hint: Update your computer details in your profile...)? What is the brand of the discs?

More info... As much as is relevant.

[90blackcrx]

Well I actually burned the movie twice on 2 cd's, so what does it mean if the freezing happens in the same spot ? Wouldn't that rule out the media ?

Also dvd shrink just says no disc inserted into cd-rom/dvd player drive, it only does it with a few dvds. So then I have to put the disc into my dvd burner and I use decrypter and then I use dvd shrink and open the foler containing the files, but when I do it that way, thats also when I seem to get freezing problems.

[guns1inger]

Dirty laser ?

[daamon]

OK 90blackcrx - You need to confirm this:

1. You're using DVDShrink to get a DVD movie from a DVD9 disc down to a DVD5 disc size. Y / N ?

2. You're then burning to CD (as per your last post). Y / N

I ask coz I'm not sure if you're getting CDs mixed up with DVDs... Or, if you're making SVCDs (that will go on to a CD disc) you're not saying so...

I'm confused...

[90blackcrx]

OK 90blackcrx - You need to confirm this:

1. You're using DVDShrink to get a DVD movie from a DVD9 disc down to a DVD5 disc size. Y / N ?

2. You're then burning to CD (as per your last post). Y / N

I ask coz I'm not sure if you're getting CDs mixed up with DVDs... Or, if you're making SVCDs (that will go on to a CD disc) you're not saying so...

I'm confused...

1.I am using dvd shrink to make the movie filer smaller so yes

2. No I am burning to a dvd-r

The first topic I kept calling my cd rom my cd rom but actually its a cdrom/dvd player. So I don't understand why some of the dvd's are not being recognized by the dvd player.