Another DVDs Freeze during Playback on stand alone DVD Player thread

[bpatters69]

As the title says, I am having problems getting my DVD Player to play DVDs that I create from my PC. I am using DVD+R media from Verbatim and my DVD Burner is Liteon LH20-A1A. I have used several programs in an attempt to see if the results vary but the result is the same - DVDs that freeze, slow down and are choppy on my Onkyo DV-SP302 player. I have tested the DVDs in the Liteon Burner and they play fine. The software that I am using is DVD-Flick.

I was looking at the logfile that DVD-Flick creates and I did notice this statement. Would it help if I lowered the bitrate? DVD-Flick allows me to do that. Any other ideas? I am posting the info from media info at the end of this post.

[NULL @ 0x3ec8c0]Invalid and inefficient vfw-avi packed B frames detected

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 23.98 (65535/2733) -> 23.98 (24000/1001)
Input #0, avi, from 'E:\Movies\XXXX 2009 DVDRip XviD-Dubby\Bruno 2009 DVDRip XviD-Dubby.avi':
Duration: 01:21:27.88, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1203 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 640x336 [PAR 1:1 DAR 40:21], 23.976 tbr, 23.976 tbn, 23.979 tbc
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 128 kb/s

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 29.97 (30000/1001) -> 23.98 (24000/1001)
Input #1, mpegvideo, from 'C:\Documents and Settings\Bill Patterson\My Documents\dvd\0.0.m2v':
Duration: 01:21:27.79, bitrate: 6988 kb/s
Stream #1.0: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 720x480 [PAR 32:27 DAR 16:9], 6988 kb/s, 23.976 tbr, 23.976 tbn, 29.970 tbc
Output #0, ac3, to 'C:\Documents and Settings\Bill Patterson\My Documents\dvd\0.0.0.ac3':
Stream #0.0: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 192 kb/s

General #0
Complete name : E:\Movies\XXXX 2009 DVDRip XviD-Dubby\Bruno 2009 DVDRip XviD-Dubby.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
Format/Family : RIFF
File size : 701 MiB
PlayTime : 1h 21mn
Bit rate : 1198 Kbps
Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release)
Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2540/release

Video #0
Codec : XviD
Codec/Family : MPEG-4
Codec/Info : XviD project
Codec settings/Packe : Yes
PlayTime : 1h 21mn
Bit rate : 30 Mbps
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 336 pixels
Display Aspect ratio : 1.905
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Resolution : 24 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.205
StreamSize : 151

Audio #0
Codec : MPEG-1 Audio layer 3
Codec profile : Joint stereo
PlayTime : 1h 21mn
Bit rate : 30 Mbps
Bit rate mode : CBR
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
StreamSize : 60.0
Writing library : Xing (new)

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[dialysis1a]

DVD Flick doesn't burn. It calls on ImgBurn to do the actual burning. Posting the ImgBurn log may help.

[freebird73717]

Verbatim is good media so that should rule bad media.

Have you tried playing the dvd in another stand alone player? That player could just be picky about dvdr's.

[Bjs]

Use DVD-R ... some players have issues with + media

[bpatters69]

DVD Flick doesn't burn. It calls on ImgBurn to do the actual burning. Posting the ImgBurn log may help.

Here is the Imgburn output. Looks like there are some warning messages towards the end.

I 08:42:08 ImgBurn Version 2.4.2.0 started!
I 08:42:08 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 3)
I 08:42:08 Total Physical Memory: 2,096,172 KB - Available: 1,282,388 KB
I 08:42:08 Initialising SPTI...
I 08:42:08 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...
I 08:42:08 Found 1 DVD±RW/RAM!
I 08:42:09 Operation Started!
I 08:42:09 Building Image Tree...
I 08:42:09 Checking Directory Depth...
I 08:42:09 Calculating Totals...
I 08:42:09 Preparing Image...
I 08:42:09 Checking Path Length...
I 08:42:09 Contents: 9 Files, 2 Folders
I 08:42:09 Size: 4,470,124,544 bytes
I 08:42:09 Sectors: 2,182,678
I 08:42:09 Image Size: 4,470,734,848 bytes
I 08:42:09 Image Sectors: 2,182,976
I 08:42:09 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:00
I 08:42:09 Operation Started!
I 08:42:09 Source File: -==/\/[BUILD IMAGE]\/\==-
I 08:42:09 Source File Sectors: 2,182,976 (MODE1/2048)
I 08:42:09 Source File Size: 4,470,734,848 bytes
I 08:42:09 Source File Volume Identifier: DVD Video
I 08:42:09 Source File Application Identifier: IMGBURN V2.4.2.0 - THE ULTIMATE IMAGE BURNER!
I 08:42:09 Source File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn
I 08:42:09 Source File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02)
I 08:42:09 Destination Device: [3:1:0] LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1L BL06 (D (ATA)
I 08:42:09 Destination Media Type: DVD+R (Disc ID: MCC-004-00) (Speeds: 2.4x, 4x, 6x, 8x, 12x, 16x)
I 08:42:09 Destination Media Sectors: 2,295,104
I 08:42:09 Write Mode: DVD
I 08:42:09 Write Type: DAO
I 08:42:09 Write Speed: 4x
I 08:42:09 DVD+R Reserve Track: No
I 08:42:09 Link Size: Auto
I 08:42:09 Test Mode: No
I 08:42:09 OPC: No
I 08:42:09 BURN-Proof: Enabled
W 08:42:13 DeviceIoControl(FSCTL_LOCK_VOLUME) Failed! - Reason: Access is denied.
W 08:42:13 DeviceIoControl(FSCTL_DISMOUNT_VOLUME) Failed! - Reason: Access is denied.
I 08:42:14 Book Type Setting: DVD-ROM
I 08:42:14 Advanced Settings - Force HT: No, Online HT: No, OverSpeed: No, SmartBurn: Yes
I 08:42:14 Filling Buffer... (40 MB)
I 08:42:15 Writing LeadIn...
I 08:42:43 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 2182975)
I 08:42:43 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 2182975)
I 08:56:10 Synchronising Cache...
I 08:56:14 Closing Track...
I 08:56:16 Finalising Disc...
I 08:56:34 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:14:25
I 08:56:34 Average Write Rate: 5,410 KB/s (3.9x) - Maximum Write Rate: 5,618 KB/s (4.1x)
I 08:56:34 Close Request Acknowledged
I 08:56:34 Closing Down...
I 08:56:35 Shutting down SPTI...
I 08:56:35 ImgBurn closed!

[bpatters69]

Any other ideas? I tried using DVD-R and the playback was better but still had pauses. I also cleaned the heads on the DVD.

[filmboss80]

I think we've ruled out disc media, so let's focus on content. Your source file is an xvid avi. There may be something wrong with that, or else the way it was converted to mpeg2.

However, the .avi seems to be a DVD rip. In that case, you should go back to your original DVD source and not use the .avi file.

[Moontrash]

try another media brand...i know verbatim is rock solid but i had this exact same issue with my lite on 20a(which is now dead) and i tried other media and it was usually a bad batch of media or the drive going bad...not imgburn...may also try app like avs2dvd instead of dvdflick

[freebird73717]

I still say it's a flaky dvd player. Try playing it in another player. If you don't have one then ask to play it on a neighbors or relatives.

[jman98]

It's too difficult to say with certainty. Your media should be good and you are burning at 4x speed which should be fine (some weird problems are sometimes reported when burning at faster speeds). I don't trust tools like DVD Flick much. So it could be a problem with the source, or DVD Flick doing a bad job or your media or your DVD player. freebird73717's suggestion is excellent. Try the disc elsewhere as if it plays fine elsewhere it's definitely your player's problem.

By the way, cleaning doesn't always fix problems. You can try it, but sometimes the only solution is repair/replacement.