DVD Burned / Jerky Playback

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Ray Musicbear

DVD Burned / Jerky Playback

Post by Ray Musicbear »

Hi,

I've just burned my first two DVD+R's, with my new Nec DVD Burner.

I used all of the "Reccomended Procedures" in UVS8.

Now, at playback, the sound and picture are extremely jerky.

The DVD sound keeps halting for a moment, and then continues.
This happens all through the DVD...

Have I done something wrong?

Buffer settings need changed?

Too hight bitrate? Used Variable 8000.

Any suggestions?
thecoalman

Post by thecoalman »

Use good media, jerky playback is usually the result of bad discs. Cheap discs can have a failure rate as high as 50%. Your burner can have an affect too, if it's acheap one they can be more prone to to creating frisbees too.

Besides that try a slower burn rate and/or update your firmware for your drive.

You can find media reviews here: http://www.videohelp.com/dvdmedia The thing to bear in mind is there is only a few manufacturers of discs, for the most part they are rebranded.
GeorgeW
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what audio?

Post by GeorgeW »

if you used 8000kbps and lpcm audio, you are pushing your disc to the limit. For home made stuff, I recommend keeping your total bitrate to about 7mbps (video + audio). When you use high bitrates, I've seen that choke many dvd players (even though the bitrates are within the dvd specs, it just doesn't seem to work when it comes to home made discs).

Use compressed audio formats like Dolby Digital, and even mpeg audio (mpeg audio is not an NTSC Standard, but should play on most newer models).

Combine that with a video bitrate of about 6.8mbps and that could help smooth things out.

Of course, it could just be the media and burn speed as already suggested...

oh yea, don't put a sticky label on your disc :)
George
Ray Musicbear

Post by Ray Musicbear »

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the replies...

The disk I bought are Verbatim, middle of the road I guess...

My DVD player is a NEC 350a... New model... Middle of the road...

I'm gonna try a 7000 bit rate, and see what that does...

Gonna try Dolby Digital too...

Thanks for the suggestions!

Ray
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