I recently bought a toshiba double layer dvd burner and put it in my comp. I used dvd shrink and burnt a ~7.4 GB DVD onto a 4.7 GB disk. For the most part the dvd looks great but on the fast action scenes the image is pixelated and shows distortion. My computer is only a 850MHz and 640mb ram so the DVD shrink was running at like 460-360mb/sec and up to about 40mb buffering. I did notice it drop once and a while and I did go on the internet while it was encoding but it didnt appear to affect it. Is my comp too slow cause most of the DVD is very good looking. What can I do?
Try it again without going on the internet, and making sure that all unnecessary programs are shutdown. Shrink uses 100% of CPU when encoding so you need all the power you can get. Also, make sure you are using good media such as Verbatim, Sony, Maxell or Fuji cheap media can cause pixelation. Do not burn faster than 4x.
Well, I would recommend you not do anything with that computer (like going on the internet) while ripping, encoding or burning. These processes need all the system resources they can get, and this may be the reason your burn came out the way it did. Also, DVD Shrink has a quality enhancements feature to help out with some of that pixellation. After you click the Backup button a window pops up, click the quality enhancements tab and check deep analysis and the other option there (can't remember exactly what it says off the top of my head) and I usually set it to Sharp which is good especially for movies with fast flashes of color (explosions, gunshots, concert DVDs, etc.), although some recommend smooth for a setting.
You should also cut back on the compression - more compression means the quality may suffer. Make sure you are also using quality media - poor quality can cause playback problems including pixelation.
So it does appear it was probably because of my comp, right. I should let it burn and turn everything else off. I'm using maxell DVD+R dvds. Also would it help to turn down the 8x burning to 2x... It took like only 10 min to burn the dvd but that was after like 5-6 hours for the encoding part. Does that seem like way too long??
I would say 8x is a little fast you are more apt to have errors. It also depends on the media you are using, cheap media should be burned slower. As for the slow encoding make sure you do not have unnecessary programs running, and don't use the quality enhancements see if this makes a difference.
Ya cause I did have the max sharpness button checked on Dvd shrink and maximum burn setting on. This was the first DVD i've burned so I wasnt sure what to expect. I used dvd decrypter and dvd shrink. Is there any other free good programs out there that any one recommeds over the others?
These are the two best programs out there. You can try the 21 day free trial of AnyDVD and CloneDVD availabe from http://www.slysoft.com these are really two great apps. but they are not free, but you can alway do the trial.
hey is there any firmwares for my dvd burner I should Dwld? I saw this on a website Sun Oct 24, 2004 12:19 pm Toshiba SD-R5372 Toshiba SD-R5372 - TU53, TU55 (Add 16X DVD-R support) / FR55 (Freecom OEM) RPC-2 http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?category=4&manufactor=31 What is this Freecom OEM one?
