Every DVD gets bad about 1/2 way through

[flanman]

Hi all,
I have a Pioneer A04 DVD burner running on firewire on a Windows XP Pro system. I have tried several way to backup and burn a DVD and keep having the same issue. The DVD plays great until about 1/2 way then gets bad and choppy. This is happening on all burns. I am using latest version of DVD decrypter to either create an iso or extract the files. I have used Dvd decrypter to burn Iso, and Nero rom to burn the extracted files. I do not get any errors on the burn and the dvd loads and plays fine in DVD player. I am also doing this on movies that are less than the 4.7 gig range to avoid issues with splitting the movie. When I get a good way into the movie it starts to get choppy and progressively gets worse. I have even switched DVD-R media and getting same results. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

flanman

[gooki]

Please list all the various brands of DVD-R media you have tried.

Additionally what is the make/model of your DVD player?

[flanman]

DVD Player is Panasonic RP56 Progessive Scan

DVD-R media is Printco 1x media purchases at meritline.com.
Other media was Generic I bought about 4 months ago, do not remember the name brand.

[gooki]

First thing I would recomend is get yourself a good quality DVD-R disc from TDK/Verbatium/Maxwell etc, and do a straight DVD5 - DVD-R copy with DVD Decrypter. The reason for this is to determine if your DVD player is fully compatible with DVD-R media.

If that disc works, the next thing to do from there is find yourself a cheaper source of quality DVD-R media. Many people here recomend primedisk/ritek DVD-R's.

Generally the Princo 1x media works great, but due to it's die makeup they tend to be sligtly less compatible with standalone DVD players when compared to the darker die discs like ritek, tdk etc.

If you want to find out what make your generic discs are download ADVDinfo.

[flanman]

Ok.. I see what you are saying. My only question is if there is a compatilibity issue, why does the movie play fine for while, and then gets worse? I will try higher reccomended quality disks and see if results are any better.

[gooki]

What sometimes happens with cheaper media is that as the DVD writer begins writing towards the outside edges of the disc the dye quality isn't as good thus the written data in that area appears faded, and less compatible.

[alexnoe]

Crap media gets worse and worse in the outer regions, that's normal.
With Vivastar or the such, the discs can even become entirely unreadable from a certain point on.

In a very few isolated cases, players also have this issue with good media, but in this case, the player is the bad part ;)

Maxell is :scared: expensive here (4 Euro per piece).

[MadManMars]

i have had this same issue and i am using bulkpak gen 2, i have order more expensive media to test this out so i will keep you upto date on my findings.

[flanman]

Thanks all.. I appreciate the input. I will be happy if it is only the media. I know better media is a little more expensive, but if it works then I am happy.

[flanman]

I have had much better success since I started using the
princo DVD-R media. Not sure what the name was on the first batch I was using, just the cheapest I could find on the net. Thanks all for the input.

[kcozart]

I use the Princo brand and have not had any problems
recording video.