Burned DVD starts skipping 20 minutes into playing

tiefighterblue · Post by **tiefighterblue** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 6:15 am

Putting a newly burned DVD created in Workshop 2 I find that the video starts to skip after about twenty or so minutes into the video. When I view the completed project in FINISH the video looks fine. Seems like the trouble is taking place during the burning process. Any suggestions as to what may be causing this and how to fix it?

Thanks.

Devil · Post by **Devil** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 6:25 am

If you phoned your doctor and you told him you had a headache, and asked what is causing it, do you really think he could answer? Of course not! Nor can we answer your question until you give us all the details of what you have been doing, your file types, all your video and audio settings, your hardware, your OS, how you encoded and so on.

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:29 pm

My first guess is that you've simply got a bad blank DVD. Did this only happen once? Sometimes you get a bad one or a bad batch. Some people find that a particular brand is more (or less) compatible with their burner than other brands.

Does the DVD skip when played-back on your computer, or does the problem only show-up on a stand-alone player? Some DVD players simply can't play burned DVDs. And, some DVD players can only play some formats. DVD-R is supposed to be the most compatible, DVD+R is a close 2nd.

Try "burning" the project to DVD folders on your hard drive, rather than to a real DVD. This will tell you if you have a burning or media issue, of some sort of file-corruption issue...

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 11:04 pm

The burning speed also seems to have to do with such problems. More likely though to be media related. I have had a few DVD's of the same source video, burned from the same disk image, display that kind of behaviour.

Clearly, if the source is the same and some DVD's have this issue while others from the same batch don't, it can't be the editing or authoring software. That only leaves the burning parameters and media.

tfpfresh · Post by **tfpfresh** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:18 pm

I have had the same issue with the DVD skipping and then stop playing after 20 min. Here is what I am doing:

4 Videos (runtime) all .avi
1. 3:00
2. 11:58
3. 19:27
4. 19:08

Video and Audio settings:
High Quality
24 Bits, 720x480, 29.97 fps
Data Rate: Variable (max 8000kbps)
LPCM audio, 48kHz, stereo

DVD Burner:
Sony External 8x DVD burner - FireWire

Burn speed:
MAX

Computer:
OS- XP Home SP2
P4 - 2.0 GHz
512MB ram

Like I said, 5 min into the third video the DVD begins skipping and then stops. The fourth video tries to play the first second then stops. What do you think?

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 5:20 pm

Lower the video bitrate to 6000kbps (CBR), and switch from LPCM audio to Dolby Digital audio (AC3) at 192kbps.

Regards,
George

tfpfresh · Post by **tfpfresh** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:07 pm

George, thank you very much for the info. Where in DVDW 2.0 can you manually pick the video and audio settings? All I can find is the Disc Template (High Quality, Good Quality, Standard Play, Long Play). These don’t have the settings you suggested.

Thanks

Update: I used the Standard Play Template and the DVD now works. It also has the same quality as the "High Quality" Template DVD. Thanks again for the help.

Helge · Post by **Helge** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:59 pm

Its not worth buying cheap dvds. The anger and frust you get... I recently bought a spindle of printable dvds ("primeon") which are only good for test prints since even if played back in the burner the playback pauses.

Unfortunatly also dvds of well known companies might cause trouble since after some time you wont get any longer firmware updates for your burner, but the dvds you can buy are all for higher burning speed (its allready hard to find dvds which are for fewer then 16X). So you are forced to buy every few years a new burner. (In theory you could burn these dvds at lower speed, but in practice...)

Close dws2. Locate the file dvdws.ini (somewhere in documents and settings\all users\application data\ulead systems\dvd workshop\2.0.
Edit this file. Find the first VIODRIVER heading. Add a line

Advance=1

below. Restart dws2. Now you have an additional button in your template dialog, which gives you full control over encoding.

Where did I get this information? Oh I found it sometimes in a newsgroup

. I wouldnt wont to miss this feature any more. Dont know why the hack its not standard.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:28 am

tfpfresh wrote: ......
DVD Burner:
Sony External 8x DVD burner - FireWire

Burn speed:
MAX
.......

There is your problem, NEVER burn faster than 4x.

I have a 16x speed writer and I use 8x discs. I soon discovered that burning faster than 4x created discs that would not play in all my standalone DVD players, the same compositions burned onto the same batch of discs at 4x and everything worked OK. Never had a problem of that nature since.

Steve J

biz · Post by **biz** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 2:56 am

I had exactly this problem. I would burn either from ws2 or the outputted .iso using nero and 20 mins through the dvd would skip and pause.
I replaced my dvd burner and everything worked perfectly.