Burned DVD keeps Freezing! HELP!!!

[gocubs94]

The way i make burned DVD's is ok but im not fully satisfied. Most of them freeze at certain points during the movie. I researched it may have something to do with chapters or something to do with the single/dual layer discs which i dont understand. Anyways, heres how I make my DVD's.

1) I download a movie, usually a mp4. or avi. file type like most people do.
2) I convert it using DVD Flick to an iso. file
3) Burn it with ImgBurn at x4 speed.

Please, if anyone has a better method than can you tell me. Most of the time, whenever I convert it with DVD Flick, the audio and video are out of sync a little bit which is why I watch the iso. file on my computer before burning it. The quality also suffers when I convert it. But it doesnt freeze when watching it on VLC Media Player like it does on the DVD player. I tried using NERO, but i dont know which one to use because theres so many and dont understand how to convert the avi. or mp4. file to a dvd file like iso. I've tried using many different free softwares but none have worked except for DVD Flick. Can someone give me some tips on what I'm doing wrong?

[jman98]

Sounds like an issue with using bad quality media. What brand and type (ie. DVD+R, DVD-RW, etc.) of DVDs are you using? What brand and model number is your DVD player where the discs freeze? Some older players had strong preferences for either the + or - DVD format and didn't work well with the other one, but that shouldn't be the case for any player made less than 4 years ago.

The only consistently reliable media available in North America is Verbatim and Taiyo Yuden. Many of us mail order these at http://www.rima.com or http://www.supermediastore.com because TY isn't available in stores and Verbatim also puts their low quality Life line of discs in Best Buy and similar stores. Anything TY makes and anything other the Life series by Verbatim is top quality. If you bought your discs in a store, the odds are that they're low quality.

[Kerry56]

I prefer AVStoDVD (using the HC encoder) over DVDFlick. But your problem is probably media related as already stated.

Slower isn't always better when burning currently available media in a modern burner. I almost never burn single layer dvd media at less than 8x. But I only use TY and real AZO Verbatim too.

[gocubs94]

I use DVD+R dvds that I buy from Walmart (Memorex) 4.7GB. My DVD player is not the problem because the freezing issue on some of my DVD's happens on my xbox also. I'll try what Kerry56 said and burn at 8x speed. Will that make a difference?

And Jman, how do you burn your DVD's. Steps and programs would be appreciated.

[gocubs94]

Also, Kerry, I used AVStoDVD before and it took FOREVER to convert. I dont know why. Is it normally faster than DVDFlick for you?

[Kerry56]

Memorex can be virtually anything. They buy their discs from various suppliers. And they are extremely inconsistent in quality. Unless you tell us the mid code on them we'll be shooting in the dark here.

ImgBurn can tell you the id code. Seeing that they are Memorex, they may be CMC Mag M01-00.

If that is the case, you'll need a good burner. Maybe an Optiarc or an older Pioneer like the 215 or 216, could handle them well enough. What is the make and model burner you are using? If it is a laptop burner, or a slim external drive, you may be SOL. Your best bet is to invest in some good media if you continue to burn video to discs.

Its been a while since I even tested DVDFlick, but I don't remember huge differences in encoding times with it compared to AVStoDVD. And I always use a two pass encode with HC when using AVStoDVD, which is the slowest encoding choice.

[jman98]

No offense Kerry56, but even back in the days when almost everybody was selling top notch media, including TDK, Sony, etc. and you could buy almost anything off the shelf and it was really good, Memorex was crap. The WORST media I ever bought, bar none, was Memorex discs. I bought one 25 pack and got more coasters from it than any other media I ever had. I went through my collection some years later and I replaced every Memorex disc I had with a burn to Verbatim. Trust me - it doesn't matter what the code on his discs is. They're crap. Getting the code will only confirm which crap manufacturer they used.

gocubs94- Buy better discs online and your problems will likely go away. And your PC specs seem to indicate that your PC is old. I don't know about "forever" but potentially you might need to let encodes run overnight on your PC rather than trying to do them while you're awake and want to use the PC for other tasks.

[Kerry56]

Back in 2005-2008 or so Memorex was even more inconsistent on what grades and mid codes they used. I saw TY +R discs under the Memorex brand (though extremely rare). And you could find MCC mid codes from Mitsubishi/Verbatim under the Memorex banner sometimes too. So you cannot state categorically that all Memorex sucked back then. Now days, yeah, they're scraping crud off the bottom of the barrel for the most part.

And if these are CMC Mag-M01-00, I know several people over at MyCE, including pepst, who have great luck with them under the Emtec brand. He uses an LG burner with them a lot, which is surprising to me. But Memorex seems to get some of the worst examples of any mid code, and I don't recommend buying them. Its just that the OP already has these discs, and if he is using a crappy slim or laptop drive, he won't have a chance.

[somebodeez]

The Memrex brand could be your problem as already suggested but also, do you have sticky labels on your discs ?

[hello_hello]

As has been said, it's probably a Memorex problem, however.....

You could try ripping a "pressed" DVD, shrinking it with DVD Shrink to fit on a single layer disc if need be, then burning it's files to DVD. As I've never heard of DVD Shrink producing "problem" DVDs, if you still have trouble playing the burned disc then it's probably due to poor quality burns, although some players just don't like discs which use certain types of dye, even if the burn quality isn't too bad.

For the record, Nero Vision is the Nero program for converting other file types to DVD. I only use it now and then (just when I need to create a DVD video disc for someone else) and I'm using an old version of Nero (Nero 7) however it's always worked quite well for me.

Mind you, converting video to DVD format is something I'd never do for myself. I've got my PC hooked up to my TV and use it as my media player, but there's quite a few portable players which will play MKV/MP4/AVI etc via USB and they're not too expensive these days. Some have their own hard drive for storing video. I think Western Digital make a few different models, some with and some without a hard drive.

[fritzi93]

And if these are CMC Mag-M01-00, I know several people over at MyCE, including pepst, who have great luck with them under the Emtec brand. He uses an LG burner with them a lot, which is surprising to me. But Memorex seems to get some of the worst examples of any mid code, and I don't recommend buying them. Its just that the OP already has these discs, and if he is using a crappy slim or laptop drive, he won't have a chance.

Funny you should mention that. I've burned a good many of them on my LG burners with very few coasters. Using ImgBurn, of course, at 8x.

I only use them for "tossers" though.

Anyway, I just bet those Memorex are CMC MAGs. Over the last few years I've used HP, Philips, Titan, and a few generic or house brands; *ALL* been CMC MAG. Plus a spindle of Memorex I got at Wal-mart when I ran low.