out of sinc but not realy........

[jbusser]

I do have some VCD's which, when I'm playing them on my DVD player, go out of sic (sound-picture).
Strangely enough, not always, and not always on the same location of the movie.
I suspect that it happens when I'm burning faster than 4X speed. (own an Aopen 12x10x32).
Is someone familiar whith this problem.
Using hard:
AMD1800+ 256MB
2x 40GB Maxtor HDD

Using soft:
DVDX
or FlaskMPG and TMPEGenc

Allways burning with NERO

THNX

[stanwebber]

your own suggestion is an excellent start to the troubleshooting process. burn at a lower speed & eliminate that variable first

[poopyhead]

don't burn anything faster than 4x to be safe

[Cubbs]

You know, with current burner technology and buffer underrun protection, I don't think slow burning speed matters as much as some people think it does.

*shrug*

[poopyhead]

it's not really a problem with the burner or burning process...it's that some standalone dvd players can't read anything burned faster than 4x

[jbusser]

Thanx,
just to be sure I will burn my VCD's not faster than 4X.

[Cubbs]

Uhm.. the speed you record at and the speed a standalone player, or any player for that matter, reads the disc, have absolutely no relation whatsoever. Is that what you were saying?

[poopyhead]

Uhm.. the speed you record at and the speed a standalone player, or any player for that matter, reads the disc, have absolutely no relation whatsoever. Is that what you were saying?

i'm not sure i understand what you're asking there...."the speed a standalone player reads the disc"...

anyones...it's pretty clear that a cd-r burned at 2x is not the same as if it was burned at say...24x (anc certainly not the same as the retail, stamped, pure silver bottom cds)

not sure about the following (so some burning expert can correct me if i'm wrong)

1) i heard that the faster you burn, the lest of a groove the burning laser makes in the dye of the cd-r..which may make it harder to read for the standalone dvd player (i dunno)

2) also, faster you burn, the higher the possibility of buffer underruns and other errors you will get. i also heard that if your buffer gets to low while you're burning (but not all the way down that you'll get a buffer underrun), the resulting part of the movie burned will have green blocks everywhere (or could just be crappy cd-r...cuz that's happened to me b4)

[jbusser]

Green blocks?????
I had them to and I've only see that while I burned on cdr cdrw at max speed the CDR(W) could be burned at.
BIG problem is, the files are corrupted and cannot be repaired or whatso-ever.
My original problem (out of sinc) can be corrected because the DAT-files are not currupted!
Whith the green bllocks I allso had sound problems...
I only burn DATA at MAX-speed, and only when I'm in a hurry!!!
Do'nt forget that an empty CD contains about 2 GB of space, there are is only 600 (650) MB for use because the "rest" is for safety, repairing damages etcetera. (I even own an audio-CD where the "mirror-layer" fell off at some places (>1mm) on the burned space of the CDR but it still plays fine without any problems.)