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horsemeeker
18th April 2003, 13:49
All of my DVDs keep freezing when I play them on my standalone player. They can play ok without any freezing for up to about 3 to 4 minutes, but then it freezes for a second and plays again, almost as though the timer of my player is catching up with the video. the playback can get really bad, freezing every few seconds.
if i play the dvd in my computer, it will play without any problems.
the dvds i have are DVD-Master 2x (DVD-R). I bought a few different types/brands and they seem to be jerky as well. My standalone player plays the original DVDs ok. Playback is still jerky when I only use about 4 of the 4.38 gigs available.
I use RecordNow DX to burn the DVDs using my DRU-500AX (firmware 2.0e)
How can I get my player to play the dvd smoothly?
If there are any cheapish dvds which will not have this problem?
Please help :(
idbirch2
18th April 2003, 14:16
There are a few reasons this could be happening. 1st is you could have made an error while authoring - PC based DVD players can cope with erroneous DVD files much better than standalones can.

2nd, and far more likey, is the media you are using. This is also the easiest and quickest explanation to rule out. Buy a single (or as few as possible) decent branded DVDRs (Verbatims wouldn't be a bad choice) and re-burn. If the problem goes away then sorry, but cheap-ass media is rubbish, I can't understand how it ever makes it to the shelves........
Feoke
19th April 2003, 15:41
There's a 3rd reason why your standalone may be freezing up: it just can't handle dvd-rīs.
My first standalone wouldn't play any dvd-r; every few minutes, it just jumped minutes forward to hang for some time, or froze up completely. Nevertheless, I was using decent branded dvd-rīs.
In the end I traded it in for another (newer) model, which is playing them all...
Elvis56
19th April 2003, 21:50
I had a similar problem and i was able to fix it. Did you transcode the movie with DVDShrink? It seems there is a problem with the files dvdshrink produces.

Read my post here:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=51406