.mpg files freeze then skip

[scottie255]

have 20 .mpg files on DVD+RW, and most are ok, but the last couple of them have been not playing well....they will stop (audio and video), then start playing again a few seconds later....i really wouldnt care that much, except that it does it like ever 20 seconds.....i still have the original .avis on CD-R and the .ifo files on DVD+RW...i really dont care if i have to re-convert with TMPGEnc at this point.....i don not have anything on the surface of the disk, they are good quality, and they are not "branded" (at least as far as i know).......i have tried "fixing all mpeg errors in VCDGear, and i just get a warning "corruption might occur for non-valid pack-sized MPEGs" (note i only tried this for 1 out of the 17 files).....i also tried DivX repair on the .avi files, and it said no corruption.......the files are almost all PAL, and as i said about half play perfectly, and the others do not......i hope i didnt miss any info.......i have tried like everything i can think of, without any luck....so please help me find a way to correct these files.......

[rcb]

More info would help...

What HW/SW are you currently using to play/view the RW disk with the 20 mpg files ?

Is this a "day one" prob or did the 20 mpg files all play OK some time back?

How much of that RW disk's capacity was used ?

What software was used to origianally write the mpg files to that RW disk ?

If you can answer above and fill out your profile with your computer details (see "profile" at page top), would help those reading your posts.

[scottie255]

well prior to burning i used Power DVD to view the .ifo files, but for some reason i only got to play the 1st one, but once i burned i played it on my standalone player, a Magnavox MDV455 DVD Player, on a 19" Daewoo TV.....and other NTSC DVDs played fine, and SOME of the files played fine.....

yes, it is a "day one" problem.....

4.23 of the 4.7 GB on the disk were used...

i used TMPGEnc Plus to encode them to VCD, TMPGEnc DVD Author to Author them, then Nero 6 Ultra to burn to DVD+RW...

i hope that answers what you need, and ill go to work on the computer profile (to my best ability)......

[scottie255]

so do i need to do something different in converting with TMPGEnc? i did the following:

chose Video-CD PAL
browsed and opened the movie
chose fullscreen (keep aspect ratio)
changed the GOP Sturctue to 15 (actually something in GOP Structue)
Resampled the Audio to 48000 kHz (it was 41000 kHz)
selected DVD-R (it said it would use about 5% per episode)

then encoded each one, authored and burned.....

[scottie255]

i downloaded the files as .avis from K++ (approx. 50 MB-100MB per file)...

[scottie255]

does anyone have an idea of what i could try?

[scottie255]

does anyone know what to do if the video and audio just freeze, and dont keep playing (i notice the skip on the computer , but it keeps playing)

[bobbysox]

dunno if this helps but you might check the firmware version on your burner is there a later one. Kill all processes that are not system critical.
Try dragging the files suspect to your desktop and run them from your drive, maybe create a new disk?
Can't think of much else.

cheers

[scottie255]

well, i will check the firmware, but im like 99% sure it will all be up-to-date, b/c i just got the drive on christmas.....and i guess my next attempt will be to re-convert all of the files, then try to burn them again, and see what happens....

also, what if i burned them as a PAL DVD, instead of a PAL VCD?

[bobbysox]

I guess if you can get full DVD resoloution the result would be much better.

Who ever said this would be easy?

PAL

Video:
Up to 9.8 Mbit/sec MPEG2 or up to 1.856 MBit/sec MPEG1 video
720 x 576 pixels MPEG2
704 x 576 pixels MPEG2
352 x 576 pixels MPEG2 (Same as the CVD Standard)
352 x 288 pixels MPEG2
352 x 288 pixels MPEG1 (Same as the VCD Standard)
25 fps (frames/second)

Audio:
48000 Hz
32 - 1536 kbit/sec
Up to 8 audio tracks containing Dolby Digital, DTS, PCM(uncompressed audio), MPEG-1 Layer2. One audio track must have MPEG-1, DD or PCM Audio.

[scottie255]

will it fix my problem?