Hi, I'm new to all this so I hope you'll excuse my ignorance. I have so far produced three DVDs from .avi files so that they can be played on a conventional DVD player, hooked to a TV. The first one gave no problems and I was mighty pleased. On the other two, the sound comes out in short bursts, with long silences inbetween. The media used is the same for all three DVDs (Philips +RW). The "faulty" discs play okay on my PC using PowerDVD. (I've already seen in another thread that this doesn't mean much.) I'm ruling out a problem with the DVD player because it plays the first one okay. Also shop-bought DVDs don't give any problems. The DVD Flick guide doesn't specifically mention audio, but there's a suggestion to select "Second encoding pass" under the advanced video options and to set the writing speed in ImgBurn to 1x or 2x. Do you think this would fix the problem with the audio? Any other suggestions as to what may cause the problem and what I can do about it? Another thought: I've read in another thread that multitasking can negatively impact the quality of the burn. There were quite a few other activities going on at the time. Could that be (part of) the reason? But I've got a Core 2 Duo, that should be able to handle a few tasks, shouldn't it? Thanks in advance. Gato
hi multitasking can cause problems, id be very select on what you use on your pc while burning... or plan a time you can leave the pc alone for awhile. my guess is 2 fold, 1 is philips and 2nd dvdRW discs, i have seen and on another thread with a prob with dvdRW, and i would try some TY or verbatims dvdR's couple of things to add to this also set your project size smaller as to not burn to outer edge of dvdR say 4300 meg, yes leave pc alone for a test disc, also use FULL erase on your dvdRW before you set to encode to dvd. also to note: avi's can be bad also! but from what you say and wht i read here, philips/dvdRW need changing. standalone dvd players have a hard time reading copies as it is, chuck in a disc thats been used before, plus buffer underuns, plus lower end dvdRWs and not a full erase all add up... i think you may have been lucky on first dvdRW as it was abit newer and not used so much...?
You might also want to reduce your burn speed. I was having the same problem where the audio was "jumpy/skiping" I slowed down the burn speed in imgburn and all seems to improved. Sounds odd enough but helped me, I can from just backing up movies as .iso images and am still new to avi/divx files but this does help. You may also want to put your encoding level to Normal and not fastest (bad quality) and do the second run as well to help the quality and audio; takes longer yes but you then have a better copy.
You may also want to search afterdawn for DVD Flick and find a guide I did and that helped me. To lazy to refind it and post, so your on your own for finding it... Happy hunting!
Thanks to all who have replied. I have taken your advice and recreated the DVD at a reduced speed - and I've refrained from doing anything else on the PC while DVD-Link and ImgBurn were active. That has taken care of the patchy sound problem. However, now I'm losing the subtitles. I'll have a look to see if there's already a thread on that problem. If not I'll open a new one. By the way, I did mention the DVD Flick guide in my original post. So, yes, I did take the trouble of reading the guide before posting my question.
