Backup DVDs Skip at end of Disks

[cowboygrifter]

Some of my backup DVDs skip when it gets to the End of the movie. I have narrowed it down to the DVD player because some that skip in my player will play fine in a friends player. Can anyone recommend a DVD player that will remedy this problem?

[hech54]

It could still be a bad disc and your friend's player has better error correction.

[dvdguy4]

How fast are you burning the dvds? Any marks or scratches on the backup?

[cowboygrifter]

The disks are not scratched. This happens with a variety of media but not every DVD that is burned. I always select the slowest burn speed in Nero. Although sometimes with 8x media. 4x is the slowest burn speed. And like I stated before it is always at the end of the movie. For a test I burned the same movie that had skipped before. Only this time I used DVD shrink to make the movie about 500 megs less and it didn't skip. So I am pretty sure it has something to do with reading the outermost of the disc. I just don't want to compress my backup more than I have to. I'm in the market for a new DVD player that will remedy this. I already bought the cyberhome CH-DVD655 and this did the same with some of the backups but not all of them.

[Skith]

What media have you tried? Sounds like poorly balanced discs. Only if you are using good quality media, should you consider a different player.

[cowboygrifter]

The movies that have skipped are on verbatim, philips, memorex, sony, and imation. These movies will play perfect on my friends older apex. I'm wanting to upgrade to a progressive scan DVD player because mine is not.

[cowboygrifter]

Another example is my backup of Fantastic Four. It was burned onto sony -R media at 4x. This was the slowest speed that nero would allow me to select. It skips near the last 30 min or so of the movie on my DVD player, a toshiba SD-310 that is about 4 years old. On my friends player that is an older Apex it plays fine all the way to the end. I just took it over to my neighbors who had a toshiba sd-4980 and it skipped during the menu and start of the movie then locked up. I then burnede another copy on sony +R media with the same exact results.

[dvdguy4]

How many titles are skipping? New titles or the ones youve had for awhile?

[handyguy]

Cyberhome players are cheap. Why not get a better player? They cost more cause they use better parts.

[cowboygrifter]

How many titles are skipping? New titles or the ones youve had for awhile?

A little of both, but not all of them.

[jman98]

One thing you didn't say was whether you are using +R or -R DVD discs, which can be a big deal to your player. My old Apex didn't really care at all what brand of DVD-R it played, but it was really really fussy about DVD+R brands.
Unfortunately, we can't give you a magic bullet for a player that will play everything you throw at it with no problems. I have a Philips DVP-642 that is pretty good about what it will play and doesn't seem to have any preferences for DVD disc brands as far as I can tell. However, I have a DVD from Russia that the player just simply will not play more than a few minutes. After no more than 5 minutes, the player just shuts down on the disc. I have no problem with other region 5 DVDs from Russia. I can play this DVD fine in my PC and my old Apex player. Just for the heck of it, I ripped it and used DVD Shrink to fit it on one DVD and the shrunk copy is just as big a problem for my DVP-642 as the original. I have decided that there must be something weird in the video stream that the Philips player is choking on. My long winded point is that whatever player you pick, it may not like one of your DVDs now or in the future. Unfortunately, there is nothing that can be 100% guaranteed to play every disc you have.

[dvdguy4]

Sounds to me that your player is on its last leg . I used to have a apex that did that so I just threw against the wall . Thank god it only cost 40 bucks.

[wayne421]

Are any of these skipping discs labelled? I'm referring to the paper adhesive labels that are stuck onto the disc surface. If so, these could be messing with the disc balance and causing skips - scan the forums as there are a bunch of threads about this topic (and I've experienced it personally and can vouch for it).

If they are labelled, try ripping the skipping disc and burning it onto an unlabelled disc and playing it again.

Good luck!

-W-