What could cause a DVD R to skip?

[TheShredder]

Hey all,

Still new at this, so I'm not quite sure what the problem is. Wether I'm encoding in DVD Medium, or DVD Low, the same problems almost always persist. Either the video stalls for a second, the Audio and video slow down majorly, or it just plain skips ahead a few seconds.

If I put the same episode on another DVD, it works, but then another one skips.

Any ideas?

[rinkel]

don't know the exact solution, but what is your source? did you re-encode from AVI ?

[bugster]

Assuming you mean when playing on your standalone DVD player, the most likley cause is Media/player compatibility. Check your DVD-r's play ok on a PC. If so then you will have to find a match between your player and different media brands. The big name brands (i.e. expensive) tend to have the highest compatibility, so you could get a couple of those just to try. Using cheaper brands often causes minor skips and dropouts and some players. Look to the DVD players list to the left, someone else may have already found a suitable brand for your player.

Basically experiment until you find success or as a last resort, replace your player with one known to have good media compatibility.

[TheShredder]

Hmm, thanks for the help. I'm using an HPDVD200I drive to record the discs. They skip on the same exact spot in my Sony DVD player, as in my HP Recorder.

Guess I'll have to see what media works best. The Sony DVD+RW discs I can find for $15's, and those seem to be the most expensive brand. That'll break my wallet at this rate .

[bugster]

If they skip in the same place on the drive that wrote them as on the standalone, then it is either faulty discs (scratched perhaps?) or something wrong with the encode process. If you write the same movie to two discs and one skips and the other doesn't, then its almost certainly a bad disc.

[BJ_M]

download bitrate viewer and check the bit rate in that spot .. it may be a spike to high for a standalone - though the pc should play it ok .. but the spike or bad frames may be caused, as was said - by bad encoding in that spot ..