A DVD player that will play homemade DVDs without any glitches?

[DaneClark]

I use power2go to burn DIVX video files to DVD-R. I then play them in a DVD player that is hooked up to my Panasonic DVD recorder, so I'm basically copying from one DVD from another. However, every DVD player I have tried to use gives me issues. I have a Magnavox DVD Player that will often give me minor but annoying audio and video gltiches when I play the DVD-Rs with the DIVX files ripped from my computer on them. I also have an isignia Blue Ray Player that will play the entire file without any glitches, but the audio and video will be out of sync. Can anyone recomend a brand or model that is good for playing a DVD-R, with a 22-minute long DIVX file burned using Power2go, all the way through with no glitches and perfect audio/video synronization?

[jagabo]

The Philips DVP 5990 and 5992 play Divx/Xvid files pretty well. You can even skip the burning to DVD step and play Divx files off a USB thumb drive.

[guns1inger]

You will also probably get less playback issues if you use Imgburn for burning, and make sure you use quality media.

Basically your whole process needs a major overhaul. Why do you play from a DVD player to a DVD recorder when you already have a copy of the DVD on your PC from which you can burn as many as you need ?

[lordsmurf]

Are you using high quality DVD blanks? I bet you're not!
See http://www.digitalFAQ.com/reviews/dvd-media.htm for more info.

[filmboss80]

Describe your hookup between playback DVD device and recorder. It sounds like you are making an analog transfer. Divx is highly compressed to begin with, and makes a poor source from which to make copies. This sounds like a Rube Goldberg method of DVD copying. Like guns1inger said, your process needs a major overhaul. Start with the best quality source; stay in the digital realm (within the PC itself, with no RCA or S-Video hookups between decks); use reliable DVD blanks (JVC/Taiyo Yudens or Verbatims); and burn with stable burning software like Imgburn.

Glitches? It's a wonder that you get any viewable picture at all, considering your method.

[jagabo]

It sounds like a simple method of making movie DVDs from divx files. Like copying VHS tapes by hooking two decks together (macrovision problems aside). Of course there are ways of getting better quality -- but none is this simple.

[TimA-C]

Surely he's just burning DivX files as DivX files onto DVds and playing on a DivX capable player hooked up to a big telly, what's your problem?

I would certainly echo those who have mentioned using ImgBurn to burn and to use good quality media, and would like to add my own suggestion of burning at lower speeds. I tend to burn 16x Verbatims at either 8x or 6x and rarely have any issues. Of course it could well be that his DivX files are the cause . . .

[handyguy]

Are you writing at 16x? Try writing at 4x or 8x.

[orsetto]

I agree with the other recommendations here- you are doing this the hard way, unnecessarily losing quality and subjecting yourself to analog glitches.

When I want to make standard, play-anywhere DVD recordings from AVI, DiVX or other files I just load them into a freeware program called DVD Flick. The conversion process takes about the same as the running time of the DiVX file, and you can group several DiVX files on one DVD as separate titles accessible by menu buttons. Since the conversion from DiVX (or whatever) to DVD video format takes place digitally, it smooths over any glitches you might encounter by trying to play a DiVX file directly from a DVD player into a recorder. Here and there I run into faulty files that DVD Flick cannot convert, but this is rare and those files usually don't play correctly on the computer to begin with.

(Look for a download of DVD Flick version 1.3.0.5, that was the last version that didn't require modifications to work properly. The newer 1.3.0.7 goofs up its installation sometimes, causing it to run very slowly unless you swap some of its encoder parts with the older version.)

[TimA-C]

Ah, I hadn't twigged that he was converting DivX to DVD by recording from a DivX DVD player to a DVD recorder. D'oh! Try something like FavC to convert to DVD or any number of apps to convert to mpeg2 and author to DVD with your own menus etc.