audio glitches

[sandiegoguy]

I am attempting to create a DVD of four half-hour videos transferred from my TiVo series 3 to my Mac. I've converted them from .tivo format to MPEG-2 (basically just removing a wrapper), edited them in MPEG Streamclip to trim tops and tails, built the disc image in Sizzle, and burned it with Disk Utility. I'm using Memorex DVD-R media in the built-in burner drive in my MacBook Pro.

The disc plays beautifully in my computer, but when I put it in my Audiovox portable DVD player (since I want to use this disc to keep my kids happy on the airplane this weekend), I get audio glitches that sound like momentary spikes of white noise or hiccups of the D-to-A converter. These happen several times per minute, all throughout the disc. I get them through the speaker, the headphones, and the line-out.

Any suggestions for how I can burn a disc that plays well in the Audiovox?

Thanks!

[guns1inger]

If you do a search through the media database (to your left) for memorex you will see that like many brands, they source their discs from many different manufacturers. Some are quite good. Many are rubbish.

First thing I would do is play the image on your Mac and see if the issue happens there as well. If it does, you know it was somewhere in the encoding that things went pear-shaped. If it does not happen there, buy some known good discs (verbatim or TYs) and burn a new copy using these and test play that. It is probably also worth playing the disc you have in other players, just to see what happens.

[sandiegoguy]

I've determined that the issue is not with the disc but with the portable player. The disc plays fine in other (console) players, but the portable player can't handle the mpeg-2 file even from a thumb drive on its usb input (which I didn't know it had until I started troubleshooting).

However, the portable player *was* able to play another program recorded at medium quality (instead of high quality), so now I suspect that it just doesn't have the processing power to handle the mpeg stream.

I've posted a new query in the conversion forum looking for advice on downsampling my existing files:

https://forum.videohelp.com/topic371824.html