Video plays jerky/slowly in standalone video player

shadow27 · Post by **shadow27** » Wed May 31, 2006 6:17 pm

Hi all,

i am proud to say that i just finnished my 1st video project.
(Crowd's voice----> Oh really? And now you think that y r spielberg?

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Though ,i wouldnt make it without the valuable help of the answers i found in this forum or the tricks that tought me so much.
I didnt even had to post a question beacuse every time i met a problem the answer was here and i just needed to find it.
(Crowd's voice----> Ok ,enough with flattering. State your problem ,will you ?

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But this time i am really stuck.I admit i havent search thoroughly yet but i dont understand very well the explanations to similar posts to my problem.

Well ,here it is :
After i finished the project ,i decided to make it a file (mpeg 2) and burn it to a cd ,in order to present it to my familyby playing it in our standalone dvd player. (klap klap klap ,applause)
But while the file plays all right in my pc (not in bsplayer though but ok in any other player e.g. windows media player) in the dvd player it is jerky and the sound strange as if it is slow.

I have no idea what this can be.
If anyone could tell me what to do i would be much obliged...

Btw i tried it in 2 standalone dvd players which are supposed to play everything (cd,dvd,mpeg,divx e.t.c.) the problem is exactly the same.

Thank you in advance.
Regards,
Nik.

P.S. Excuse my lame english....

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Wed May 31, 2006 6:29 pm

I'm pretty sure I know what the problem is, I've experienced it myself.

It comes down to this: the storage density of CD media is not as high as that of DVD media, and a result, the CD must be spun much faster than a DVD to deliver the same number of bits to the pickup laser. Some DVD players are simply not able to spin the disk fast enough.

The only solution is to burn on DVD media, or lower the bitrate, i.e. go from 8000Kbps to 5000Kbps, for instance.

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Wed May 31, 2006 7:16 pm

If you have a DVD burner, make a "proper" DVD. The results will be much better, and if you use a DVD-R, it should play on 90% of all stand-alone players.

It may be too late for the advice, but you really shouldn't spend the money on Video Studio unless you plan on buying a DVD burner also.

P.S. Excuse my lame english....

HA! Anybody who says "lame" (slang in that context) is fairly comfortable with English!

But, thanks for giving your location... I try to be more patient when I know that English may be a 2nd language... When an American, or Englishman, writes (English) poorly I just assume that they are lazy!

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed May 31, 2006 8:42 pm

And if, by any chance, you meant to say that you DID burn to a DVD, but said 'CD' by mistake, or when you do burn to a DVD, burn it at no more than 4x speed, regardless of whether the disc is rated to burn higher than that.

Burning more slowly gives the burning laser more chance to embed the signal more firmly in the disc. This in turn gives the disc more chance of playing in as wide a variety of DVD players as possible. There are some DVD players out there, and particularly among the more expensive brand name ones, which have difficulty playing home-made DVDs.

They also usually have difficulty playing VCDs (relatively low quality videos burned on CDs and not DVDs). And there are very few players which will play DVD-quality and formatted video which has been burned on to a CD and not a DVD.

shadow27 · Post by **shadow27** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 3:32 pm

Well,
i tried with a vcd version of the file and with a Svcd version.
Both played fine.

So i guess that you r right on your suggestions.
Now i will try to burn the file on a dvd....
from what you write should play ok.

Thx much for your help and suggestions mates...

Nik.

P.S. @--->DVDDouge
Well,i always try to improve my english after i had that funny conversation. I talk to that guy and when i tell him i am greek he says: wooowww and you know how to speak english??!!
Well ,i answer just after, we greeks just discovered the fire and we now try to learn english...
(Crowd's voice---->Keep your irony for yourself nik.)
I hope i wasnt too hursh....

Well i love the 'lame' expression.... There wasnt a translation in the vocabulary about that and there were epic battles and epic laughs (in another forum) where that guy was writing in slang while i was writing english with greek syntax in mind

Hopefully we always managed to understand each other in the end after the whole forum member list was lol
(Crowd's voice---->And why you think we mind about all these.Anyway,DVDDouge,please dont comment on something about nik.he is such an egoist he will go on writing blah blah blah about it.

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