Need assistance and can not find the walk-through--Long Post.

[Alstang1]

Background: After picking up a laptop in January, I started backing up my DVD's. Armed with nothing more than the internal DVD Burner on my Gateway Laptop, RiData GO4 ink jet printable Disks, and using the DVD Decrypter, DVD2One, Nero method, I started burning. I now have 109 burned DVD's. Reciently I have added an external HD and External Pioneer A06. Both are connected via USB.

I have found several issues, but I will deal with the most bothersome one in this post. I thought all of my burns were comming out flawless, until I started viewing some of my backups. I would guess, one in ten burns is having a vid/audio issue. I have narrowed down the issue to be in the actual burning process, being that I made two burns on a movie, and one was messed up in one area and another was messed in the same fashon but in another area. It is always really close to the end of the movie, and what happens is this: The movie (near the end) gets broken video. When I say broken, I mean, maybe half of the screens vid will become very textured, large square color blots or strips of scrambled video, that only covers parts of the entire viewing area. At points this may even go as far as bluring the audio or freezing the play, for a short period of time, and then skipping forward to a playable area.

I am testing a theory that 4x with the media I am using may be to fast. Not enough testing at 2x to see if that was the issue yet.

I have heard that one can burn with dvd decrypter, so I looked into that. I can not find the walkthrough on that anywhere. I did a web search, and found lots of good info, but not the actual walkthrough on DVD Decrypter burning.

Is it possible to use DVD Decrypter, DVD2One, DVD Decrypter as a burning method? Is there a better suggested route for me, a newb to burning that is not really clear on half the terminoligy used on this web sight? Does anyone have any idea why I may have been getting those problems and what the best route to get rid of them are?

Thanks for taking the time to read all of this.

Al

[Alstang1]

So can anyone help me out? I have no idea what the problem is here.

Al

[jimmy basushi]

i dont know much about these dvd 2 dvd things, but i can give you this link (http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/dvddec.htm) which i hope helps you.

[Alstang1]

Actually, it was DVD2One. I am assuming that it would be the same as DVD Shrink.

I appreciate the link, but hardly understood anything there. :-) I am going to attempt to play around with it, but am still in search of a "why" I am getting coasters. If anyone can give me more info, please do so.

Al

[Alstang1]

Still looking for help. If I need to add more info, please let me know. I am very interested in figuring out what the problem is here.


Al

[Kedirekin]

Very long post - that may be why responses have been so thin - not saying long posts are bad, just making an observation on human nature.

The problems you describe sound very much like they're media related. You say you've made about 100 burns. Are they all on the same type of media (RiData GO4)?

You can burn with DVDDecrypter, but you need to make an ISO image first; DVDDecrypter doesn't burn from files. You can use ImgTools classic to turn files into an ISO image.

To help identify where your issues are occuring, I recommend that you use DVDDecrypter to rip a DVD5 to an ISO image then burn that ISO to a DVDR. If you have problems playing that, it almost certainly means that either your set top player doesn't like the media or that there is a problem with your burner. If it does play fine, then the problem is somewhere in your process (ripping, transcoding, or burning).

Once you've narrowed it down, you can research further.