Every DVD I've burned the last couple days has started to skip about an hour into the movie(this never happened before). It started happeneing the last 4 or 5 discs of my Taiyo Udens (I have about 10 more left). I'm wondering if its bad discs or maybe the lens needs to be cleaned on my burner or the burner itself going out? Its not my dvd player as the older DVD's play fine. It only happens an hour into the film,the first 59minutes are perfect.
I think my case is the DVD player lens getting dirty. For you it might be that your discs are a bit dusty or are a little scratched towards the end. This happens in time if they are kept in a spindle. It is impossible to avoid. Another thing could be that your DVD Burner needs a firmware update or the lens is getting old or dirty.
There has been some posting about bad/fake TY discs being sold. Hard to tell if you got some of those or not. Other reasons for playback problems are: 1.Paper labels on the dvd. 2.Burning faster than 4x speed. 3.Cheap/poor quality media( Maybe in your case). 4.Programs running in the background while burning(like anti-virus}. 5.Multitasking or surfing the web while burning. 6.Spyware or Ad ware hidden and running on you system. Thats a few things to check. Jerry
Na these are good printable Taiyo's. I've burned ~85 dvd's from this lot of 100 with no problems. I'll go down later tonight and get a lens cleaner and see if that does the trick.
welcome bodine123 let me just say this if you have not already fixed the prob try this as I remember running into this problem about say 6 months after I started doing back-ups seems like every burn was successful but the playback seemed to get worse and worse. w/ the help of members here I figured out it was just simply time to do some "house cleaning" including moving all non-neccessity files to good quality media (alway's store on media that is what it is for) and de-fragmenting my drive once a week or so. due to the nature of making back-ups (the constant shuffling of huge files)all my files were fragmented causing "hiccups" while piecing together the files during the burn process these "hiccups" did not show up as errors but affected the playback none the less. I now try to keep at least 90-100 gb's free on my hd and have not had a single prob since *knocks on wood* If this does not address the problem post back w/ system specs, programs/methods used and any errors that you may recieve as well as any details that might seem useful! @ jerry746 if you keep up that kind of posting we won't have any body left to help;} jjk good post I think maybe we could copy/paste that one instead of typing half of our replies!!
i'm having a problem with little skips every 10 to 12 seconds during the movie. any thougts? my burner is about 3yrs old could that be a factor?
jntw, Sounds like a problem with poor quality media. Most any media will work for backing up files but for video reproduction you need good, proven, high quality media such as verbatum, taiyo yuden, maxell, sony mij, fuji mij (mij = made in japan), branded ritek ridata, Stay away from memorex, HP, phillips, no name, and retail store branded media eg. staples, compusa. Keep the burn speed to 4x. bodine123, Try setting the target dvd size to 4300.
I was wondering, with defragmenting, should I be doing this right before burning a DVD Folder, do that the files are not fragmented?
From my experience, it is good to do a defrag every 4th or 5th backup. If I'm not sure, I'll pull up the "defrag" system tools on WinXP (SP2) and just ask to "Analyze". If it says I don't need to defrag, I'll check again after a couple of burns. My recommendation, defrag once a week, especially if you're constantly backing up. Moreso if you're backing up several movies a day.
I was asking because I defragmented right before burning two discs and I am having playback problems with only these two discs. They are not backups, but a compilation I put through DVDlabpro. After compiling a disc, I defragmented and then burned with Nero. I then deleted compiled the next, defragmented and burned again. The disc burned flalessly with a total of 2000 PI errors and 8 PO errors with peaks of 3 and 1 respectively. I was not sure if it was defragging that screwed it up, but I am thinking my DVD player needs cleaning, because the disc works fine on other players. It pauses every few seconds like jntw's movies (not media in my case as I use Fujifilm MIJ DVD+R 8x). I thought Defragmenter was stupid when it came to DVD files because Windows always shows that a movie is Fragmented after a compile or after I do an ISO in Shrink.
If you are going to defrag, remove all old dvd files that you don't need. Then defrag before you rip the new movie. If you defrag after the rip and the dvd files are pieced back together during the defrag you kind of defeat the purpose of keeping the dvd file in one big solid file. It may help with a dvd file already on the HD but I don't like doing the defrag after the rip. Just my opinion. Jerry
Thanks for your input on the disks motor81. I've been using Memorex 8x. tried Maxell no prolbems now.
