Toshiba SD-R5002 Burner Problems

[coolearl]

I've tried using the Princo DVD-R(White Label Purple bottoms) and the Maxell DVD-R (Green top, purple bottoms). I've tried doing a straight DVD-5 rip to iso using dvd decryptor and burn with dvd decryptor 1X. I still get pixelation. Any ideas of what I might be doing wrong? All help is very much appriciated! -TS

[padre]

I'm not familiar with the Toshiba burner, but have you tried a DVD-RW? Does it pixelate on the Toshiba or the standalone DVD player? If so, what make/model. What speed are you burning at?

[coolearl]

I haven't tried a DVD-RW yet. I have tried burning at 1X and 2X and it doesn't seem to help one way or the other. It pixelates on both the standalone and on the computer. But it's really bad on the computer. The 2 standalones that I tried it on were a PS2 and a 7 disc JVC XV-FA900BK.

[gooki]

Have you tried primo DVD with the latest pxengine update to burn the .img files?

[jjhung]

I have the toshiba sd-r5002 for about a month now. Very happy with it and burned 25 movies so far with princo dvd-r and dvd-rw and am getting my 100pk spindle today to burn somemore. Always burn at 1x, and always burn to test on dvd-rw and nero image first. Test the dvd-rw on my sony dvd-players, and if it plays fine, then I burn on dvd-r. So far I find the dvd-rw that don't work on my sony are usually because I did something wrong during the process (not burning though). For example I found a movies played fine in Apex 1200 and software dvd player but not my two Sony's. Turns out that all the file names inside video_ts folders are small caps. Once I changed all file names to caps and re-burn to the same dvd-rw, it played fine in my Sony's as well. If the movie doesn't play [correctly] in my Sony, I know something I must have done wrong and after doing different things and it still don't work, I usually go back and just start from scratch again. You should make an image of the movie using nero and mount it as a dvd using nero's image utility and try playing in the software dvd player. If you see those pixelation in the software player as well, then of course it gets transferred into the dvd-r. So check that first and if the movie plays fine without pixelation in software dvd player, then you have narrowed down to burning problem. Also make sure you use 1x burning.

[coolearl]

Thanks for the reply jjhung, what process do you use from ripping to burning of a straight 1:1 copy? I assume you use Nero to burn. I too am using Princo DVD-R.

[jjhung]

I use dvddecrytor to make iso image of entire dvd so I can go back later if there is a problem with the end product. Mount the image with either nero image utility or daemon tool so you see it as a dvd. Lately I have skipped one step of ripping the entire movie to a folder. Instead, I just check to find the ifo file of the main movie, and open ifoedit and do vob extra directly from the mounted iso image. Ifoedit will show a message saying it can't process from encrypted media but yours is already rid of that by dvddecryptor so just press ok and continue. Remember also to put the video_ts.ifo in the same folder afterwards and then just do get vts sector. Then just burn to image in nero (if dvd-video gives your file reallocation fail error, use udf/iso mode but you have to make video_ts and audio_ts folders) and mount image and play with software dvd player. In case the files come out larger than 4.3gb, I use rempeg2 to make it smaller and use ifoedit to remux. This is the simplfied version what I do. I am having problems with a few movies lately, possibly seamless branching but I'm not sure. DVD-RW burn fine and play in my sony but stop or loopback to beginning of movie at certain points. May be problems with files since it stutter badly at those problem points in my apex and slowed slightly in my pc player. Will try to redo the movie later to see if that rid of the problem.