Any ideas???huge pixels

selwol · Post by **selwol** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:23 pm

I created an image in MF4 and have been back 5 times to burn to disc,but from the 5 dvds i burnt only two were perfect the others were of a much pooer quality with huge pixels showing up now and again.
Would be gratefull for any ideas what this could be.

cheers

ML

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 9:26 pm

You probably got a bad batch of DVDs. Try a different brand. I've had a few bad DVDs, and I once had a spool of 100 bad CDs.... About half of them were turning-out bad, so I threw about 90 blank CDs in the trash! (By the time I opened the package, I didn't remember where I'd bought them, and I didn't have the receipt.)

I assume that the problems show-up at different places on different DVDs. (If it's the same every time, something has gone wrong with your image file.)

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Or, if the DVDs play OK on your computer, or on another DVD player -

Some DVD players have trouble playing "burned" DVDs. Some can't play burned DVDs at all. Some can play DVD-R, but not DVD+R, or they cant play R/W discs, etc.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 2:21 am

Another problem could be the burn speed.
Do not burn at maximum but at no higher than 4x.

I have a 16x writer and use 8x discs. I have found that if I burn at speeds higher than 4x then many of the standalone DVD players either refuse to play them at all or with problems. When I burn at 4x they play in all the available standalone DVD players I have available to test them upon.

selwol · Post by **selwol** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 6:23 am

Thanks guys, it does seem to be a bad batch of dvds,can you recomend a good brand if thats possible,or is it just luck .

Thanks

ML