MPEG1 to MPEG2 problem?

[bmwracer]

A friend of mine converted some MPEG1 videos to MPEG2 and burned them onto a DVDR disc but I've been having problems (the playback on the PCs is choppy at best) with playback of these discs on my PC. Oddly, these same DVDRs playback just fine on my DVD player and on several others that I've tried.

I did notice that my PC and another PC had problems reading several of the DVDR discs to the point that PowerDVD spit out an error message. Yet these discs work just fine on a regular DVD player.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks.

[Tommyknocker]

It usually means the PC may not be powerful enough to play DVDs. Try a DVD with a 352 x 240 resolution and see if it helps.

[bugster]

Or another possibility is that the DVD rom drives on the PC's are having trouble reading the type of DVDr's that have been used.

In my house we have 5 computers. One DVD rom will not read any recordable DVD media (+ or -), two will read both, one will read + only and one will read - only. None have trouble with commercially pressed DVD's.

[Gazorgan]

I have a 3 year old DVDROM I rip with (it will hit 8x ripping), but it won't read a burned DVDR(-). My new DVDROM will read a DVDR(+/-/RW), but only rips at 2x. You can easily have a DVDROM that doesn't like the burned DVDR's (I bet the settop player is less than 2 years old).

[bmwracer]

It usually means the PC may not be powerful enough to play DVDs. Try a DVD with a 352 x 240 resolution and see if it helps.

Well, I tried it on my brother's 2GHz PC and no luck. Same problem, so it's not CPU horsepower.

[bmwracer]

Or another possibility is that the DVD rom drives on the PC's are having trouble reading the type of DVDr's that have been used.

In my house we have 5 computers. One DVD rom will not read any recordable DVD media (+ or -), two will read both, one will read + only and one will read - only. None have trouble with commercially pressed DVD's.

This is my main suspicion that it's the DVD-ROM drives causing me grief. But oddly, of the 17 DVDR discs for the set, only the first three discs are giving me problems. And those were the ones that had MPEG1 material converted to MPEG2. The others discs were straight MPEG2 to MPEG2 copies...

Weird.

[bmwracer]

I have a 3 year old DVDROM I rip with (it will hit 8x ripping), but it won't read a burned DVDR(-). My new DVDROM will read a DVDR(+/-/RW), but only rips at 2x. You can easily have a DVDROM that doesn't like the burned DVDR's (I bet the settop player is less than 2 years old).

As mentioned above, my DVD-ROM drive likes all but three of the DVDRs in the 17 disc set for some reason.

My Sony DVP-S360 is over three years old and it has no problems with any of the 17 DVDR discs, neither does my LiteOn LVD-2002. Go figure.

[bmwracer]

Okay, I'm suspecting more and more that the DVD-ROM drive is just having a hell of a time reading the DVDR discs.

I've tried to rip the discs to my HD using DVD Decrypter and/or SmartRipper, but it's taking forever since I'm getting sector read errors.

Anyone have any idea how I can get around this problem?

And when I do get the files onto my HD, can I play the video from my HD?

Thanks for your help.