Playback on DVD player is awful for some disks

[missbibi]

I have searched, but have been unable to find an answer to my dilemma. On three disks the playback is fine on my computer, but in the DVD player it gets stuck every few seconds. You can't fast forward and it's totally unusable.

I'm using the same media so I have no clue to why I have these failures. Is there anyway to take the disk and burn the data again from the Video_TS folder to get a better result?

FWIW, these are TV shows I imported into iMovie using Canopus DVC100.

[Frobozz]

I'd make a disc image from one of the DVDs that has the problem and try to play from the disc image. If it plays fine then there is no problem burning a new DVD from that disc image.

To make a disc image with Toast 6.0.7 select the Copy window, insert the DVD and choose Save as Disc Image from the Toast file menu.

[WiseWeasel]

I would copy those movies onto a different brand of DVD-R media, such as Ritek/RiData (which I've found to have the best compatibility), and see if they work any better.

[missbibi]

Thanks for the help. I was successful using Toast to make the Disk Image, then burned the disk Toast under Data with the Data-UDF settings.

I had used Ritek/Ridata G05 8X for the previous disks that gave me problems, but this time everything worked ok. This has happened a couple of other times where a disk would stutter and stop (used same media). Sure wish I understood what was different with these burns. I suppose it could be a quality issue with the particular disks rather than a brand issue.

Thanks for the help!

[TugBoat]

Just thought I'd say that I had a similar problem with Toast 6.07 and DV movies exported from FCP 4.5. I used the same, exact same, DVD-RW disc about 5 times with a couple short clips from my camera. Sometimes it would work fine on my Player, sometimes not. It always worked fine on the Mac, just not the Standalone Player. Same thing, slow, choppy, and freezing. And the DVD-RW Disc is fine, I've used it to test full length DVDSP movies since then. I don't use Toast to encode DV to DVD, and after that experience, I probably never will. I've never had this problem with Toast burning already encoded MPEG2 streams or DVDs from DVDSP.

We are still
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=246349

http://boards.support.roxio.com/roxio/board/message?board.id=0000020&message.id=10190#M10190
And then,
http://boards.support.roxio.com/roxio/board/message?board.id=0000020&message.id=9947#M9947
basically, use something else.

[Frobozz]

Let's think this through, TugBoat. Your standalone player has difficulty reading a DVD-RW disc when the MPEG content was encoded by Toast. When the MPEG is encoded by something else, such as DVDSP, there is no problem with the player reading the same piece of media. Meanwhile, even the ones encoded by Toast play fine on the Mac. This, indeed, is a puzzlement. Do they all have the same kind of audio? I'm just taking a wild stab that the 8 mbps VBR used by Toast in its short clips combined with the PCM audio created a higher combined bit rate than your other samples. Had you encoded a 90-minute movie with Toast the VBR would be around 5 mbps thereby lowering the combined bit rate. Or if you used AC3 instead of PCM audio that also would lower the total bit rate. Maybe this would play okay on the standalone player. Of course, if you have DVDSP and Compressor it is silly to encode with Toast's lesser-quality encoder.

I may be off base here, but it is one possible hypothesis.

[TugBoat]

The only reason I tried it was 'cause other people had this problem. There are a few of them having this problem. I experienced the same thing....SOMETIMES. Sometimes the exact same clip, encoded with the exact same app, burned to the exact same disc, WORKED! That's real hard to explain. I'm not even gonna try

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Here's the best thread I've found that describes what I'm talking about. And when I say the exact same disc, I mean the physically exact same DVD-RW disc. I have 5 of them that I've been using for well over 9 months. The only time one wouldn't play correctly was when Toast 6.07 was used to encode a FCP Digital Video clip. My guess is it depends on the camera used to create the DV. Some people never have this problem, some have it occasionally, some have it all the time.
http://boards.support.roxio.com/roxio/board/message?board.id=0000020&message.id=5855#M5855

[Broadbean]

I had similar problems with a brand of 4x DVD-R media only the spindle (of 50!) version, not individually wrapped box of ten version. I've since tried different brands or same brand but different disks without a problem. Everything points to the ones that came on a spindle. The disks work fine with my Mac however...