Can "pause" function damage the machine and/or disc?

[moviebuff2]

Hi everyone:

Back in the video tape days, pausing a tape for too long would damage the tape itself and possibly the heads. That's why most machines would automatically turn off the pause function after a set period of time.

What about DVD?

I am planning to do a lot of audio DVDs. One DVD player plays a picture disc (jpeg, for example) and feeds the still pictures to a DVD recorder. A CD player will play an audio CD and feeds the sound to the same DVD recorder.

There are certain pictures each of which I want to pause and use for the entire audio CD, approximately, 1 hr.

I am concerned that pausing a DVD for 1 hour continually will damage the disc and the lens.

What do you think?

Thanks

[ZippyP.]

I don't think any harm will be caused, but it seems to me that you can create such a DVD disk pretty easily on your computer. Your choice I suppose.

[moviebuff2]

Thanks, ZippyP.

I did use my computer in the past to make my audio DVD. It took too long! I used TMPGenc to put my jpeg pictures and MP3 together. For 1 full DVD, it took me 8 hours to make a DVD (not VCD or SVCD). Of course, I chose the highest quality (slowest) setting.

With a stand-alone DVD recorder, it's real-time recording. One hour of audio material takes exactly one hour of recording, including the picture.

[Bjs]

I'll give you one piece of advice to remember .

Dont use that type of pause affect ever .

You will cause actual damage to the player , and with modern tv's , what is referred to as "burn in" eventually .

Yes , manufacturer's have been trying to work around this issue with modern tv's for some time ... but the work so far is insufficient for full protection of lcd / plasma screen's .

So if you want the equipment to last ... dont do it .

[moviebuff2]

Ouch! Bjs. :0

I will remember your advice.

I don't think the "burn in" effect is a real problem since I can simply turn off the TV monitor after I start the recording session and will turn it back on towards the end.

BUT (a really BIG 'but") :0...

it's the DVD player that worries me.

I too fear that the machine will be damaged if I make it spin on the same spot over an extended period of time.

added note: I just made an 1-hr audio DVD with only one jpeg today. The result was oustanding. The picture was clear and stable (no deinterlace ever needed, like in TPMGEnc). The color was vibrant. The sound was wonderful.

BUT, this will be my last audio DVD made this way until I can be sure that the DVD player will not be damaged. I am glad I asked the question. THANKS, GUYS!

[gadgetguy]

As I understand the technology you won't cause any damage. The DVD player does not continually read from the same spot on the disk. DVD players read the data on the disk into memory and it is displayed from there, when you hit pause it just keeps playing from the memory. My DVD player actually stops spinning the disk if it's paused too long, although it switches the display to a screen saver.

[moviebuff2]

"screensaver"...hm...interesting...indeed...it may SAVE my projects (tons of reel-to-reel tapes are waiting to be transfered, they simply won't fit into one cd)...

Thanks, gadgetguy

[Noahtuck]

What gadgetguy said...
It's not going to keep reading from the same spot.
My players stop spinning and just display the last still in memory, only one of them has a screen saver, which i can shut off anyway's.
I would imagine there are player's that might keep spinning but that is all they are doing until you continue.
One player i have is almost 7 years old, is left on prob. about 12 hours a day 7 days a week and has yet to have any problems, and it's alway's spinning.
And if you have a CRT TV i would not worry about burn in either.

I used TMPGenc to put my jpeg pictures and MP3 together. For 1 full DVD, it took me 8 hours to make a DVD (not VCD or SVCD). Of course, I chose the highest quality (slowest) setting.

And if you want to do a audio dvd the right way, stop doing that & use a good/real dvd authoring program that will allow you to insert a photo & audio seperately and author it, convert the audio first and it will not take anywhere near 8 hours for anything

I can encode a 2 hour audio track to DD in under 30 minutes and add to DLP, throw in a still if i want one and author in a few minutes, another few minutes to burn.

Or you could even use something like this, Audio DVD Creator , to make them out of mp3's.

[moviebuff2]

OK. Let me make sure that I understand you correctly.

In a DVD player, when in pause mode, the machine does not read repeatedly from the same spot on the DVD disc. Instead, when the machine is first put in pause mode, it store the image at that moment into its memory. From that point on, it will read from that memory, not the disc, until I cancel the pause mode.

Did I understand you correctly?

As for "making an audio dvd the right way", I will have to look into that. THANKS

[gadgetguy]

... Did I understand you correctly?...

Close. What you see on the screen is always coming from memory, whether paused or not. It reads the disk ahead of what's displayed on the screen, similar to "skip protection" on a CD player. So when you hit pause, you're pausing the memory output.