playback freezing

[barkilphedro]

I really would like to know why some DVD + or - R discs are freezing during the playback.
It seems this doesn't depend neither upon the soft used for burning those discs nor upon the method used for decrypting-reencoding. Infact I tried to successful reburn a disc over the same media type and manufacture firm using the same soft of a disc previously burned and that freezes at a certain point. I am brought to believe that the only cause of freezing is due to bad disc! But even very good, and expensive, media seem to have the same problem! So I am confused.

I use AnyDvd and the wonderful one touch DvdShrink to reencode, or the great 3 and scenarist to recreate the same IFO’s structure of the DVD and IfoUpdate depending on the architecture of the disc.
Menuedit and PgcEdit to eliminate the pieces of the movie I don’t like, such warning msg etc. and to put in my own clips.
CygWin to obtain the dvd-compliant ISO img. And Alcohol to burn that image on a DVD + or – R disc.


Does any 1 know something in order to avoid mysterious playback freezing?

[marin001]

if you are using dvd shrink why use anydvd as dvd shrink has it's own regional settings??

my copies of my dvd's used to freeze as well until i read on certain forums that it was the media i was using. if you use ritek g04 media and dvd shrink and nero for burning you should be fine, this is what i use and every dvd now turns out great with no freezing.

and they play in any dvd player i put them in......hope this helps

[barkilphedro]

I use AnyDvd cuz I experienced some DvdShrink problems to read css. I also noticed that AnyDvd improve the overall speed of disc reading.

Thank u for the piece of advice. Will try ritek g04. I hope to find them easily.
I don't like nero, expecially version 6 and upper.It works fine with CDR but still has problems with DVD, it sometime freezes at 98%/99% of burning process cuz it has some serious problems in empting buffer data. Expecially handling an huge buffer to empty before writing the lead-out. In my opinion Alcohol is far much better (for image burning obviously).

Barkilphedro