Hi. I work for a Wedding video company, and we are having really bad problems with our DVDs that we are burning off. 90% of the seem to be glitching. Some of them glitch the same place, and some of them are random. Some just won't pay at all!!!!!!!! Also it seems that one dvd will play on 1 dvd playerand not on another!!!!! Someone help me before i give up and become an estate agent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Emsyjane hi need a little more info. are you copying dvd or tape ? what burning apps are you using (nero...decrypter..imageburn etc.)? what media are you using to burn too ?
So you make lots of dvds,and play them in a slew of drives? 1) Quality burner drive/s. Very critical.Some of those crappy drives out there will cause issues,usually playback issues. Throw your backups in hundreds of different dvd drives,and those low quality burners won't cut it. That's why I only burn backups with my Benqs: 2-1620s/1640/and 1650. [bold]It's gotta be a Booktyping capable drive[/bold]. Plextor px 716 is among the top dog among burners. Booktyping alters the plus format,and sets it to dvd-rom.It's also called bit-setting. After booktyping a backup,stand alone players and other dvd drives will recognize them as dvd-rom format-the most universal format of all dvds. Those booktyped backups fool the picky players into thinking they are actual dvd-rom original movies. No disc/dirty disc/wrong format/wrong region errors? Booktyping should take care of that little issue! A very simple fix. 2)Quality media: Taiyo yuden/Verbatim/and Hitachi are top notch,and Plus Format.Booktyping,it's gotta be the plus format.The dash format is inferior,because it can't be booktyped. 3) Burn speed. With quality drive and quality media,keep the burn speed at least 8x. These top quality drives,along with quality media give fewer pif errors on your backups at the faster speed. They perform worse at the slower 2.4x and 4x speeds. 4) Quality burn engine: I prefer nero6. It's the most compatable of all my burn engines.There are variations between burn programs,and picky stand alone players can tell a difference. 5) Backup onto harddrive and then burn. Rip and burn on the fly will cause more issues. 6) Keep harddrives defragged,and your registry clean.No spyware/malware. 7) No multi-tasking.Shutdown all background programs.This will also help in case it's a heat related issue. We need to know what drive/s show these glitches. Is it the same dvd-rw drive that burned it,or is it while viewing on a stand alone player/s. The dvd-rw drive that burns a backup,should be able to play it.The quality of the playback should look near original in quality. Make sure your burner plays it's own backups,which it should. Majority of those issues are on stand alone players,which is a totally different ballgame. Also describe the glitching: Pixellation/freezing/jumping/skipping/etc After trouble shooting those 7 causes I listed,and it's only on a certain stand alone player- Clean the laser lens of that drive at issue. After that,A new stand alone player is in order. Now if you are transferring dowloaded jpeg/mpeg/mini dv/etc,there will be some other possibilities.
Hi Guys, Sorry, i have been away for the weekend! You needed a little more info. I am using Nero6 to copy the DVDs. we make a master DVD by coming out of the analog box into a DVD panasonic recorder. The we finalise them on the dvd recorder, then use this to copy from in nero6. If i am totally honnest i have no idea what burner that we are using. It came with our dell pro computer i also don't know much about booktyping, or if the drive already has this. The glitches come in all manner of forms!!!!! sometimes it is just a freeze, or it just starts skipping. When people return the dvds to us we always try them out on our machines and they seem to work ok apart from one or 2. I will change the type of disks that we are using to see if that helps. But if the extra info throws any further light on the problem please please let me know!!!!!! Thanks so much for your help so far. I know i'm a bit of a clutz!!!!!!
Use nero infotool to find the exact model # of your burner drive in that dell pc. Maybe it can booktype? Dell uses a lot of different drives: BTC/Phillips/NEC. You may want to upgrade to a benq 1650 or plextor px-716A.That benq 1650 should run less than $40. The benq 1620/1640/and 1655 are also great booktyping drives,depending on the availability of them in your region.. Lite-on/LG/and some sony drives also booktype. The booktyping drives should help ease those no disc errors that your customers get. I've done a lot of transferring vhs/8mm onto dvd+r on my cyberhome tv recorder. I then re-rip those backups on my computer for many extra copies.But not on the fly.Rip to harddrive first with dvd shrink-which is free. You can set dvd shrink up to autoburn with nero,and makes the process a lot simpler. This combo also gives me the highest stand alone compatability rate. The compatability of the backups off the cyberhome is about 50%. After I rip them back onto my harddrive-using dvd shrink or dvd decrypter,I then can make copy after copy on my benqs. My benqs booktype them to dvd-rom,so I have over a 95%+ stand alone player compatability rate. If I find a drive that won't recognize my booktyped backups,then it's the stand alone player's fault.
I'm really sorry for being a bit thick! BUt what does on the fly mean?!!!!!! I'm just trying the DVD shrink thing. I haven't quite figured out my DVD burning drive just yet! I'm feeling a bit slow today though, a little too many alcho pops on the weekend!!!!!!
On the Fly: This is an option if you have dual drives. One reading a dvd,while a dvd-rw drive is burning-at the same time. Also called disc to disc copy. A lot of people will do that and don't know the risks that are involved. Backup copies can be easily done on the fly. The backup copy is already down to size-below 4380 mbs. No encryption either-which nero won't pull off. On the fly is no problem for me,but my equipment is solid. Good reader/good writers/high quality media/and a standard 4x-8x burn. Dvd shrink: Insert backup disc into drive Open dvd shrink Open disc Let it analyze-about 2 mins or so It opens up your files Click backup tab Double check all those settings-especially burn target to burn to your dvd-rw drive and burn with nero. After those backup options look ok,click ok That's basically how she works.It does have a reauthor mode so you can edit out unnecessary sound streams/sub pictures/etc. Click reauthor,drag main movie over to the left side of screen Backup-double check all those options/OK Dvd shrink rips and compresses. Taking 7 gbs and compressing onto 4.38 gb blank is no problem.
@ emsyjane hi @ saugmon hi hullo my froggy friend, see its in your capable hands here. so will go back to my comfy armchair and read another 2 chapters of astro physics
Hi again. Now i am thinking about buying a new dvd writer. I have purchased some vertibam ( howver you spell it!) and i thought that i would go the whole hog!!!!! I don't suppose you know if the "BenQ SolidBurn" is any good, and if it works -R. It sounds kind of good, but i thought that i would check with someone who might actually know.
The BenQ DW 1650 and the DW1655 (if you want lightscribe) are the best burners on the market for the money.
Lightscribe is a way of burning labels directly onto the disc. Special discs are required (more expensive). Read about it here: http://www.lightscribe.com/
One more Newbie question. In reading this and other threads it seems like I would see improvement through purchasing a BenQ 1650 (don’t need the Lightscribe) but I have been unable to locate one. Most recently, Froogle led me to Ocie but they called this morning to say it was out of stock and not expected any time soon. Do any of you have a thought of a store that might have a 1650 in stock - or a source for a used one. I've had no luck, at least through yesterday, on Ebay either. As always, thanks, Wardzone
http://www.meritline.com/benq-dw-1650-16x-dvd-burner.html $33.99 for either black or cool gray bezel. Not sure how much shipping is.Also comes with nero oem. I'd ignore the other bundles with the free cds and dvds. Those discs are low on the quality scale. 1650 + quality plus format media= Less issues on stand alone players. If I encounter any issues with my backups,usually it's the stand alone player's fault.
After all the problems i had before, i got the Plextor PX 760A. My newest and bestest friend!!!!! Touch wood no glitches yet!!!!!! Yippie!
Thanks, Saugmon, for the link. As I look at the Meritline page, it says the drive is Out of Stock and at least to date, they have not responded to me with a likely date. Any other suggestions? Thanks again, Wardzone
I also checked: NCIX.com- where I purchased my 1650 and out of stock now. Excaliber.com- out of stock Rima.com- none The only Benq drive that I would suggest that I could find is the 1655: http://www.supermediastore.com/benq...dw-1655-dvd-lightscribe-bulk-drive-black.html I have been seeing some very good scans with the 1655,which has the LS feature as well. Lots of Benq dq60's out there with the dvd ram,I'd ignore them.Totally different chip setting.Not the philips chipsets that are in the 1620/1640/1650/and 1655. Congrats on the new drive Emsyjane.
