Ritek Silver/Purple media issue

[batman0105]

Greetings All,

I recently purchased a spindle of 25 of these DVD-R's and either have a bad batch or they are basically just poor quality media, but before I try to return them I thought I would see if anyone here might be able to point out something that I have overlooked. Here are the details:

1. Capture from camcorder using SCLive (VHS source);
2. Frameserve (AVIsynth script) into TMPGEnc from VDub;
3. Create .m2v (audio exported to .wav separately in VDub);
4. Convert .wav to .ac3 using BeSweet;
5. Author using Spruceup, export to .img;
6. Burn image (Pioneer A05) using DVD Decrypter.

I am putting 5 - 22min TV episodes on each DVD-R, which is approx. 4.2gb in size. The problem is that when I write to the Ritek media and play them on a standalone player (Pioneer DV250, Philips DVD825), they work perfectly except for the last episode, which skips or just plain looks horrible. The same image burned to a Maxell or Pioneer DVD does not seem to have this problem. I have burned to 3 Ritek discs and they all do the same thing. However, a 70 min movie (approx. 2.6gb) on the same Ritek media works great, which I suppose would mean that the media is technically compatible with the standalones. So I guess my question would be is there a known issue with this kind of media when you get too close to its capacity or go over a certain amount, say like 4gb?

I know the obvious solution is to stick with the more expensive media, but I'd like to find a way to make it work if I can, which I'm sure you can all appreciate.

Thanks!

[donpedro]

Maybe if you will send you Manufacturer ID using ADVDInfo somebody can see if they have same media with same issue.

http://www.vcdhelp.com/dvdmedia

[LanceSteel]

That's strange. If you're using the same silver Ritek's that I've used in the past they should be really good. I've never had a problem with them and they've always played flawlessly. It sounds like its a bad batch.

[batman0105]

Well, I was told I was getting Ritek silver/purple but according to ADVDInfo I would say that they were not exactly truthful with me:

00 42 00 00 01 40 C1 FD 9E D8 50 00 02 87 0D 13 .B...@....P.....
88 99 80 00 03 4C 65 61 64 20 44 00 04 61 74 61 .....LEAD D..ATA
20 20 20 00 05 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 .............

Anyway, I am starting to believe the media is not so much defective as it is just not 100% compatible with my 2 DVD players as the problem discs play ok in the DVD-ROM drive. They actually play great in the standalones until approx. 80-90 minutes into it when they start to stutter and skip. Is this not uncommon? Can anyone shed some light on this frustrating media issue?

Thanks!

[donpedro]

Strange... they look more like Accu based on ID.

This is from DVDR Media

junk. they lock up in my pioneer c503d after about 60-70 minutes of play back.. and this player, plays everything.

Scratch my previous post. The lock up error was due to .95 Ifoedit having a bug with 3:2 pulldown.

These only burn at 1X on A04 and latest nero, but DVD play back is perfect.

Any clues ???