Hey guys, I have a music DVD with some audio problems... It has random loud cracks in the audio (for example 3 cracks in the first 10 seconds, and regularly throughout the whole DVD, maybe every 10-20 seconds). It plays fine on my downstairs surround theatre DVD player, and also plays fine on a 2nd DVD player in another room through just normal TV speakers, however on my 3rd DVD player (which is my "main" surround theatre I like to use) the DVD has the loud cracks in the audio problem... I copied the DVD with the same results (plays fine on 2 players, the 3rd has the loud cracks). So it must be a tech problem with that particular DVD player / surround system ? Does anybody know what it could be ?, and how I could fix it ? Cheers
What is that ? All other DVD's I have are fine, and I'm pretty sure that the loud cracks are always in the same spot. I opened the DVD in DVD Shrink so it would tell me the audio track. It says it is "MPEG-1 2-ch English". I have no problems with any other DVD I have... Does this tell you anything ? PS - oh yeah I do have a digital cable connecting my DVD player to my surround theatre.
The fact it happens only in the one player is the clue that it's most likely to be mechanical.. static building up on a moving part, most likely the disk and at a certain level flashing over to the nearest grounded point. (relative ground anyway.. which to say 30Kv static is just about anything) the loud bang being picked up just about anywhere within the rest of the amplifying system. I would try something like a wire from a case screw to another metal part on another piece of equipment it is connected to and see if that makes any difference... it's not the disk itself or it would do it on all the players... it could just be the player doesn't like this one disk.. it does happen sometimes... especially with cheaper disks.
I've re-arranged all external wires, jiggled everything possible eg. DVD player, amp etc, even saved the DVD to my hard drive and re-burned it to another DVD-R, the loud audio cracks are still there in the exact same spots !
I saved the DVD to my HD, then transcoded the whole thing (4 hour process) to a new DVD file, burned it and it works without the audio cracks... So problem resolved as good as it needs to be... Thanks everyone for your suggestions etc Cheers
