Freezes and sometimes blocks problem

[dacrimson22]

Hi,

I have this strange problem.
This is what I did and what happend.

I took the DVD movie the princess blade wich is a DVD 5.
So I don't have to convert it because it already fits on one dvd.
So I ripped it with DVD dycrypter and made the iso file then burnt it.
When I checked the movie it had some freezes in it hardly noticable but they where there. Then there where also blocks or image shifting like you see when a satalite transmition is blocked for a few seconds.
(not blocks like with fast motion and svcd)

I then cleaned my pc with a ghost image and tried it again and now the problem was gone. So I tried to do another movie Jason x wich had to be converted but again the same problem raised it's ugly head.
I'm puzzled what can cause this problem. It can't be the encoding becasue with the princess blade there was none only the ripping part.
Also it's not a burning problem because the Jason X encoded finished files on my HD already have the problem.

I tried it again with the already ripped files wich I ripped with dycrypter and now the freezes are somewhere else in the movie and also are the blocks????

To sume things up:
It's not the burner or burning process.
It can't be the dvd2one because the princess blade wasn't encoded.
Then it must be a problem with DVD decrypter you would think but the second time it worked out right with the princess blade.
Is it the dvd-rom reader, I think not becasue I used the same dvd player.
Can this be caused by some software like dvd2one but this doesn't install itself so it shouldn't causes probs right?
This is so confusing I don't know where to look for the problem so I realy could use some help :-)

I have a AMD Athlon 908 MHz
Mem is 768 MB RAM
1 Maxtor 20GB HD (fat32) with my system on it.
1 IBM 100GB for dvd stuff (NTFS).
Sony dru 500 ax dvd burner.
A-open dvd-rom
OS is Win XP Pro

I hope somebody can help out here.

Thanks,

Ray

[malum]

Sounds like a media problem to me.
What are you burning onto?

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Yep, I agree.

You cant really burn incorrectly. You just tell the drive to write some sectors and pass it some data. Whether or not what it burns can read back is down to the drive and the media, and how well the two are matched.

[MasterBeta]

Well, my experience has been that it is not always the media. Everyone is really quick to say it's the media and I can tell you that is not always the case. I have been having the same problems, so I took the advice of numerous members on numerous threads and was eventually able to get numerous clean burns on media that was not working prior to the changes I made. I will tell you what those are below, and let me point out I made all the changes at once, so I'm not real sure what changes made the difference.

-- I moved the DVD Burner (DVR-105) to another computer.
-- I updated the Burners firmware to 1.3
-- I updated my DVD ROM (XJ HD165H) to firmware CH11...This is my rip drive
-- I updated my ASPI layers to 4.7 they were 4.6
-- I updated NERO to 5.5.10.20 (Newest Release 4/1/2003)
-- I quit using Smart Ripper and Ripped with DVD Decrypted... I had read a few posts where many reported Smart Ripper having problems ripping accurately
-- I left the computer COMPLETELY ALONE during the rip & burn process.

After making all of these changes I have burned numerous clean burns on Princos at 2x. Hope this helps others.

[malum]

The only thing I see there that might have helped is the firmware update.

The Nero upgrade would have help compatibilty but it either creates a disc that works or it creates one that doesn't it doesn't create ones that freeze during the movie IME.

I hardly ever leave my machine alone during the rip or the burn and have yet to produce a coaster on a ritek G03.

My results with Bulkpaq (Princo) produced inumerable bad discs.