last part of movie becomes choppy and unwatchable!

[eugchen]

ok, when i try to backup the pianist, i rip it first, then compress it with dvdshrink. everything looked great, so i burned it over with recordnow max.

when i try to play it in the dvd player, the last 5-7 minutes of the movie are chopping, showing "the blocks". what is up with that? i can't even watch the last part of the movie. is there a reason why? i do not think i compressed it too much--the movie was compressed about 40%. do you think it is because the movie was too long (2hr. 30 min)? what can i do to prevent this from happening again?

thanks.

[flanman]

I had similar problems with cheeper media. I was using some princo and Ritek and had same types of issues. Once I purchase better media the problem went away.

[eugchen]

isn't ritek decent media? that's what i thought. and plus, it only happens a couple of times out of 100.

[padre]

Yes, Ritek is definitely better media than say Princo. But it might not be as high quality as true TDK, or Verbatum. I've seen the same problem as you, jumpy a little at the very end of a 4.3gb burn, but not too often. I've even seen it on Pioneer media.

For the price difference between Ritek and Verbatum/TDK, I'll live with occassion burps - especially when they are the exception, not the norm.

[atreides93]

I've burned a ton of movies on ritek and rarely seen those problems....I only saw it when I bought primedisc which are rebadged ritek's. when i buy generic ritek's from rima.com they dont' have problems like this.
my Sony is very finicky about bad media, for the longest time I thought my Sony was incapable of playing movies greater than 3.96 gigs, turns out it was just bad media which usually shows up towards the end of a movie!

[dvd_maniac]

Are the TDK dvd-r or +r REALLY true TDK's? I got 300 of the dvd-r's from my boss as a gift and want to know if they are worth getting when I deplete the current stock.

[atreides93]

Are they in generic packaging or retail TDK packaging? I would be surprised if best buy was selling counterfeit TDK discs

[dvd_maniac]

They are in 100 pack spindle but they are labeled with the TDK logo. So I hope they are real, I was just wondering because sometimes I get skips and freezes, not often but sometimes.

[atreides93]

run DVDinfo on them and see what it says.
it would be interesting if TDK was using someone else to make their DVD's now

[dvd_maniac]

They are now on sale $169USD for 100
Media Information
Disc Regions are 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
Media code/Manufacturer ID TDKG02000000
Format Type UDF 1.02
Volume Name CANON_BL_RN
Application id
Implimentation id VSO Software
Recording Date/Time (mm/dd/yyyy) 8/ 3/2003 13:45:47
Formatted Size 3.86GB(4.14GB)
Total Size 3.86GB(4.14GB)
Book Type DVD-R
Media Type DVD-R
Media Id Code Speed 2.0x 2770KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 2.0x 2770KBps
Write Strategy Speed 1.0x 1385KBps
Data area starting sector 30000h
Data area end sector 1EDE5Fh
Linear Density 0.267um/bit
Track Density 0.74um/track
Number of layers 1