I have burnt a miniDVD on a CDR with Nero Burning Rom. I played it on my computer (PIII 450, DVD drive x8), picture and sound were OK. But when I play it on DVD player (Viewmaster bought in Melbourne Computer Swap Meet), the picture is fine but the sound (AC3) is horrible and jerky. Can someone tell me why and how to fix it.
miniDVD
- Thread starter howanlai
- Start date
Your lucky you can play a miniDVD on your player, 90% cant. As ipdave asked, what settings/options did you use in Nero to burn it?
hey chickenman are there any tutes on making MINDVD's out there or can u make one !? i wouldnt mind having a go at this one myself sometime 
ipdave
1
Viper, you just make the standard VOB/IFO structure in the regular ol' VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders. Just make sure it fits on a CDR/W, about 15 minutes or so, and burn as UDF/ISO mode.
As CM said, you need a player if you don't want to use your PC. I have an old Apex 700 with a Sampo firmware hack that lets me toggle miniDVD and normal modes in setup. I believe that may have been standard on the old Sampo players. My Daewoos and other Apex's don't let me do it...
As CM said, you need a player if you don't want to use your PC. I have an old Apex 700 with a Sampo firmware hack that lets me toggle miniDVD and normal modes in setup. I believe that may have been standard on the old Sampo players. My Daewoos and other Apex's don't let me do it...
ipdave,
I didn't burn DVD-R/RW because I don't have DVD-R/RW drive.
The Dobly trailers were downloaded from http://www.cinenow.com/us/vobtrailer.php3
I used Ulead DVD moviefactory to author my miniDVD.
My miniDVD works fine on my computer with AC3 surround sound card. The picture is very good on my computer monitor and the AC3 channels are excellent (6 channels).
I didn't burn DVD-R/RW because I don't have DVD-R/RW drive.
The Dobly trailers were downloaded from http://www.cinenow.com/us/vobtrailer.php3
I used Ulead DVD moviefactory to author my miniDVD.
My miniDVD works fine on my computer with AC3 surround sound card. The picture is very good on my computer monitor and the AC3 channels are excellent (6 channels).
jorel
1
great idea (as always) VIPER.VIPER_1069 said:hey chickenman are there any tutes on making MINDVD's out there or can u make one !? i wouldnt mind having a go at this one myself sometime
this is not your case VIPER but for me.....
the explanations from ipdave and homenlai are
"too much for my knowledge".
i need one big "do minidvds for stup" tutorial to learn!
please CM , build another jewel!
Creating miniDVD's is basically the same as creating regular DVD's, well accept when it comes time to burn.
My point was that you don't need a guide for miniDVD's, one for regular DVD's is fine. That said doom9 has some, although from recollection they are quite dated as they are from a time when basically no one had DVD burners.
As C_D said, making a miniDVD is the same as making a std DVD, just you will burn to a CDR (using a normal CDR Burner) instead of a DVD.
If you follow my DVD or AVI to DVDR Tutes, in the Bitrate tab of DVD2SVCD, just put in 800 as CD size instead of the 4400 as the tute says. If you can burn to 99min CDR's you can fit a bit more on (and set size to 980) . Expect about 13min per 80min CDR and about 16min per 99min CDR as a good bitrate. Of course the lower the bitrate you go the longer the movie/trailer that can fit, but poored quality.
I made one up quite a while back using a trailer off the Monsters Inc and the Ice Age DVD's. Looks great, the kids love it.
If you follow my DVD or AVI to DVDR Tutes, in the Bitrate tab of DVD2SVCD, just put in 800 as CD size instead of the 4400 as the tute says. If you can burn to 99min CDR's you can fit a bit more on (and set size to 980) . Expect about 13min per 80min CDR and about 16min per 99min CDR as a good bitrate. Of course the lower the bitrate you go the longer the movie/trailer that can fit, but poored quality.
I made one up quite a while back using a trailer off the Monsters Inc and the Ice Age DVD's. Looks great, the kids love it.
PHANTOMRIPPER
New member
I had the same problem with a miniDVD the problem was because I left the bitrate on the Vobs too high. I had taken a small cut (fight scene I liked from a well known film) and managed get the full scene at full DVD quality onto 1 miniDVD (using ac3 sound) It looked perfect on PC .Problem was sound was also all jerky like above when played in hardware player. This baffled me coz I had managed to backup another film onto 2 CDRS as miniDVD format that also used ac3 audio but played perfectly.howanlai said:
I found after putting the DVD movie files through DVDshrink and lowering the bitrate to 60% of the original (using depth compare) it played fine. I had forgot I had done this with the other film in order to fit it onto 2 cdrs (was an hour long film) and realized that the bitrate must have been the problem on the other movie.
After "shrinking" the fight scene it worked fine on my hardware player.
Hope this helps!
PS it also looked pretty sweet after shrinking too (no major quality loss)