Some movies stop/have glitches???

[lilshann]

Hi there, I am somewhat new to this whole thing and have read many of the guides and thought I had my problems worked out. The problem now is some of my movies are stopping at some point (after I have burned them and try to watch them) or some have like glitches in them and sort of skip. Not all my movies have this problem and in the past I was told to change my burning speed which I did to 8x. I have looked through many of the other posts on here and have found a few things but much of it is still greek to me. Can anyone help???? :(

[2COOL]

Welcome to the forum!

If your test playback of your DVD on your harddrive plays fine without problems then you theorize three things.

1. You may be still burning too fast. Burn at 4X or less
2. The media you are using is cheap low quality discs
3. Do you use full adhesive labels on?

[lilshann]

Ok, I lowered the speed to 4x, I am using Maxwell dvds- are these any good? And yes I am putting full labels on them - would that cause a problem???

[lilshann]

Sorry to bug u again but I have a couple of questions still. You mentioned testing the movie?? How would I do that and also what dvd's should I use if I want to re-burn over them? I have wasted so many dvd's because they seemed to of burned ok but when I watch them they are awful because of glitches.

[BSpielbauer]

Hi there, I am somewhat new to this whole thing and have read many of the guides and thought I had my problems worked out. The problem now is some of my movies are stopping at some point (after I have burned them and try to watch them) or some have like glitches in them and sort of skip. Not all my movies have this problem and in the past I was told to change my burning speed which I did to 8x. I have looked through many of the other posts on here and have found a few things but much of it is still greek to me. Can anyone help???? :(

lishann:

Many things can cause this. The three posted above are typically the most common causes.

-Bad Media -- This is probably the number one cause of bad burns, and many bad burns exhibit themselves in a sort of a "skipping / stuttering / freezing." Always make sure you purchase high quality media, and media that will be very compatible with YOUR DVD burner, and also with YOUR DVD players.

-Burning speed... can cause a sort of an unstable burn, which can result in problems. There are a lot of people who are impatient, and try to push the burning speed to the max, forgetting that the drive they have might have been released 4 months before this burning speed was even commonplace, or forgetting that the media they bought is not even rated for that speed, or both... Combine this issue with the one above, and you multiply the potential for a bad burn. In other words, you might get away with a lousy cheap brand of media at 4X, but it may cause many errors if you try to burn this same garbage media at 8X, or a 16X.

-The general consensus is that labels almost always turn out to be a nightmare, for most users, when it comes to DVDs. You will find a very, very few people who post that they have "never had problems" but you will find many more who will swear to ruined discs, most typically because the paper label does not expand and contract equally with the actual DVD, which results in a sort of a bowing of the DVD. Also, some claim that the actual mass and weight of the paper itself causes problems when it is spinning inside a player at a high rate of speed. Regardless, most people avoid them.

-Compression. If you are shrinking or compressing a lot of data onto a single layer DVD, you reach a point where you finally can actually see what is called
"pixellization." This looks different than the errors I described above, but some people confuse the two.

-Firmware upgrades.... Many manufacturers are busy revising the firmware on their drives to try to deal with almost every new brand and type of DVD that hits store shelves. So, sometimes upgrading your firmware on your PC's DVD burner can make it work fine with the media you just bought, even if you bought lousy stuff (cheap, garbage crap media). Some would argue that this is just a workaround, though, and you should still avoid the lousy stuff, anyway.

Multitasking... a lot of people report that trying to use their PC for other things while it is burning has led to burns which seemed to be more "unstable" and full of burning errors. This is an intensive process, and if you are constantly interrupting your burner with "starts" and "stops" in its timing cycles while it is moving massive amounts of data to a DVD burner, you might end up with a lousy finished product. There are those who think nothing of even surfing the net while they burn. I prefer not to take the economic risk, and just walk away from the PC during this process.

-Bruce

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@lilshann

Hi!

And yes I am putting full labels on them - would that cause a problem???

In my personal experience and that of MANY other posters to these and other forums, there is a great possibility that putting labels on your media is the cause of your proble.

As an experiment, remove the label (Thoroughly and carefully) from one of your problematic discs - and then play it...