Noob needs some advise

[strider]

Hi all, 1st time on this forum and it looks very helpful although most of it sounds double dutch to me so im not even sure if im posting in the right section, anyways i have a small problem i hope someone can advise on.

ive d/loaded some films of winmx and ive burned them off onto discs however.....when i play back the films about 15-20mins into the film the film seems to break up into hundreds of little tiny coloured squares and picture quality is disrupted if i fast forward a little it's ok again for a few secs then goes corrupt again.....in other words the film is unwatchable.
at first i thought it was the dvd player was having troubles reading the file but if thats the casewhy does it play fine until a quarter of an hour into the film.

is this an encoding problem?

im using nero 6.0 se and neroexpress to burn the dvd with

 

[Nunyobiznes]

Nero is your problem. I would suggest that you use another burning app to burn the file that you have and see if you have the same problem. If so, then your file is corrupted. Easy way to check that is to play the file on your pc. If it freezes or goes blocky then you d/l'd a sh*ty copy.

 

[strider]

thats the confusing part....the files i have are perfect quality at the moment they're mpeg files or avi, if i watch them on the computer they work fine but not after they have burnt to dvd?

 

[PC-GUY]

Try lowering the burn speed and or better media.

 

[strider]

k thanks i'll try that 1st

 

[Nunyobiznes]

You can lower the burn speed but it would be much more effective to use a different burning app. Nero sucks. I'm sure some people like it because it holds your hand along the way but you get much more consitent results using Padus Discjuggler. Never had a problem using it and I wouldn't use anything else.

 

[ChickenMan]

The problem is almost certainly due to a media problem. What media are you using and what is your burner?

 

[strider]

media? i presume you mean the type of disc?

well...ita an ANV 8xdvd-r disc

im using nero express

dvd drive is btc 8x dvd rw/r

 

[ChickenMan]

Yep, try burning at 4x instead of 8x or get some decent media like Ritek's.

 

[VIPER_1069]

I use nero for burning my VIDEO_TS compiled dvds to dvdr in NERO classic mode and burn at 4x although my 107 will allow 8x i still burn at 4x for reliable consistant burns that work everytime in all players i tend to stick to the ofum favorite of RITEK media or at least a minimum of RITEK dye media if i cannot get hold of real RITEKS

 

[strider]

thanks for your help

 

[Nunyobiznes]

I could never understand why you guys buy a super fast burner and then cut the speed back to ensure a good burn. All drives are optimized to burn at their maximum rated speed. If there is any issue with burning at that speed, then you have to stop being cheap and buy the good discs or stop using the cheap *ss software that came with the burner, IE: NERO. I know that some people will get their feathers ruffled but I think it needed to be said. I have an I/O Magic 16x Dual Format/Double Layer DVDBurner that absolutely kicks *ss. I never would have bought it if I had to burn at 2.4x just to get a good burn.

 

[PC-GUY]

I could never understand why you guys buy a super fast burner and then cut the speed back to ensure a good burn. All drives are optimized to burn at their maximum rated speed. If there is any issue with burning at that speed, then you have to stop being cheap and buy the good discs or stop using the cheap *ss software that came with the burner, IE: NERO. I know that some people will get their feathers ruffled but I think it needed to be said. I have an I/O Magic 16x Dual Format/Double Layer DVDBurner that absolutely kicks *ss. I never would have bought it if I had to burn at 2.4x just to get a good burn.

That works for you and thats great. But the staff of this forum have seen many problems when burning higher then 4x and no one said 2.4x. So for the minutes it saves it not worth the trouble.

 

[Nunyobiznes]

PC-GUY...Would you agree, that if you get better results with a slower burn speed, then there is no reason to buy a faster burner? And if so, there is no need to buy higher priced media that is rated for the faster speed??

 

[PC-GUY]

PC-GUY...Would you agree, that if you get better results with a slower burn speed, then there is no reason to buy a faster burner? And if so, there is no need to buy higher priced media that is rated for the faster speed??

Thats not totally true. Cheap media can become unreadable over time.

 

[ChickenMan]

All drives are optimized to burn at their maximum rated speed.

That is just an assumption and there is very little to no data to suport that.

Crap media burnt at a slow speed or highest rated speed is still crap media. Take Princo's for example, the 4x seam to burn okay at 4x, they can even be burnt at 8x or 12x, but just try reading the same disk in 6 months time though, thats when you get the surprise and wished you payed a few extra cents for decent media.

 

[VIPER_1069]

I Have some princos a mate gave with some home movies on to duplicate for him and they are a week old ... i cannot back them up at all altho i can BRUTE FORCE copy them with blindwrite suite but the risk of them being faulty

 

[strider]

ok ive tried using ritek discs and ive lowered the burn speed to 4x burnt off two films and hey they were actually watchable, great i thought
burnt of a couple of more films and guess what? same problem?

as to changing my burner program, i know someone who uses it all the time and he dont have any problems with nero.

15 wasted discs later im still scratching my head....

 

[PC-GUY]

BRUTE FORCE

I like that but I would use a hammer.