i burned sin city and when i play it with my PowerDVD player at track 23 it quits playing and pops up an error saying disk may be scratched or dirty, try cleaning it...bla...bla..bla..and the disk i copied it from is new. i can skip past 23 and it will play. should try burning it at a slower burn speed instead of max?
If your backup freezes, stutters, skips, or has some pixelation, it is more than likely due to poor quality media being used. Cheap media is poorly manufactured around the edge of the disc, hence the reason why it mostly skips or freezes from the middle toward the end of the movie. The two main things to consider first are: 1. Is it cheap media that you are using? (ie. some off brand you bought at a local computer store/fair, even a store like Circuit City or Best Buy sells cheap low quality media.) 2. How fast are you burning? - Burn no faster than 4X, might have to go down to 2X with really cheap media. Also, are you using adhesive labels on your back ups? If so, try removing the labels (if you can) and playing them again. Go here for more info on why not to use labels. - http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=28604 You can go here for some other possible solutions: http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44912 Also try lowering outcome the "Target DVD size". Open DVD Shrink. Click "Edit", then "Preferences". On the first tab at the top in the drop down box, change it from "DVD-5 (4.7GB) to "Custom" and enter a number of 4200MB (4464MB is burning to the edge of the disc, you want to stay away from the edge as the edge of cheap media (disc's) are poorly manufactured). Screen Shot Below:
so far its only done this on sin city, no other movie. i burned it 3 times and all 3 copies is like this. all my other movies is fine. ill try a lower burn speed and keep it under 4,200 mb
