Burnt DVDs skip, pause, get stuck !!

[Mickey79]

Ave,

I have a major problem at my hand and i've tried to ascertain what the real problem is and this is what i have come down to - my DVD Burner. But i want advice whether i'm right or wrong.

I've been encoding, authoring & burning DVDs since almost an year now. In the beginning i never had any problems at all. My DVDs would turn out just fine.. there were some quality issues which i rooted out with help from some of you... but my DVDs never gave me any problem.

Until a few months ago, the DVDs that i burnt started to skip, sometimes pause, and mostly get stuck from where i couldn't proceed.

At first i thought it was my DVD player. I ruled that out after testing DVDs on different players. Then i thought it was my encoding... but for many months i never had this problem and i've been using the standard tools like TMPGEnc, BeSweet, FFMPEGGUI, DVD Maestro and all.

I've tried 3 or 4 different types of Media... from expensive to cheap... and again, till a few months back, the media was not a problem either because it never skipped or paused or anything.

A couple of weeks ago, after much frustration i had a breakthrough when i noticed something. On my DVD Discs, after having burnt them... i could see rings on the edges or some area of the surface.. area a little towards the outset and not the inset of the disc. That's where the skipping occurs usually.. after an hour or so into the movie. Also i noticed in some discs, after burning, the difference in color on the disc surface reached till half of the disc surface... and if i played that disc, it would get stuck or pause after half the movie... llike 1 or 1 & half hours of play. Mostly the last few chapters could never be played. Or they would skip badly.

I've practically changed and tried everything from Software, DVD players, Media to everything else... except one thing. My DVD Burner.

I have an Optorite DVD Burner i got in October last year from NewEgg.Com ... It doesn't give any error during the burning... but this is what is happening.

Has anyone ever had this before? Do you think it's my DVD Burner or something else? And lastly, can any advice me what DVD Burner should i purchase in case i need to get a new one?

Thanks,
Mickey

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