question on jerky video

[sh03z]

Hi. My C drive is very fragmented. My D drive is not, it has about 40 gigs free. I just bought a movie, and I was backing it up with DVD rebuilder pro. DVD rebuilder was using the D drive excusively, and not the C drive.

The backed-up movie was very jerky, and was not playing smooth. I played the original DVD on my computer, and the original was jerky too. However, the original played fine on my standalone DVD player, but again the backed-up copy was jerky on my standalone DVD player...

Is there something wrong with my computer, other than the C drive being fragmented?

[jptheripper]

if the original video plays fine on standalone but jerky on computer, either your computer cant handle dvd video (check another disk) or the fragmentation is so bad it is causing problems.

not sure why the rebuilt disk would be jerky on the standalone, unless you had errors on encode and rebuild.

for gosh sakes defrag your drive!!!

[sh03z]

I just defragged my C drive...it was really fragmented

I'm encoding again tonight.


:cool:

[Boulder]

Fragmentation has nothing to do with jerky playback on standalones, it can only make the whole backup process slower. Your problem lies elsewhere, I suspect bad media as jptheripper did.

What media did you use and at what burn speed?

[steptoe]

Poor quality or incompatable media with your standalone DVD player is a very common fault if your backups start stuttering/jerking/pausing slightly or worse just freezes solid and will do nothing unless you turn the player off and back on again to remove the DVD

Some media may burn at its maximum speed, but does not like playing, try dropping the burn speed down to say x4 if its burnt at x8. This had helped me in the past

Since I changed to a better quality media, I do still get the occasional very slight pauses but rarely as this may even be the dual layer pause that DVD-RB doesn't remove



Also the burning software does make a difference, I had constant problems until I switched from using Nero to DVD Decrypter as my burning engine, even with the exact same media and the exact same source. I tried it and proved it was Nero not liking one of my DVD players, but the problem didn't appear when using DVD Decrypter to burn. Same burn settings and the same media, just different software