Having a difficult time and need some reliable advice!!

I am presently using both Nero and Cyberlink Power2Go as my burning softwares. When I burn a DVD from a file or copy another DVD it plays fine on the computer I burned them on. If I try and play them on a home DVD player it will freeze half way through. If I try to fast forward through it, it will start from the beginning.

Imaging watching a two hour movie you are into and ooops, it freezes. You would be pissed also!!!!!!

I cleaned by DVD burner and retried with no success. I am burning onto DVD formats the software supports. Before I go through buying another burner, I wanted to make sure it will fix my issue.

Please HELP!!!!!!!!! Anyone!!!!!!!!!

How old is your home DVD player?
What DVD format are your discs?

What brand of burner are you using?

Have you tried on any other DVD playing machines besides your home DVD player and your computer?

Did they used to work?

if your dvd player is one of the earlier ones. they will skip a lot on any burnt dvds. no way to bypass this unless you buy a newer dvd player.

when you burn dvd movies. do you burn them at slow 4x speeds? 8x and 16x speeds make my dvd movies freeze and show artifacts. maybe you should burn slower?

and what type of dvd burner are you using? some generic brands are known to be unreliable and troublesome.

My DVD Player is about three years old. I have made DVD's for family members and this same issue has happened on atleast 4 different dvd players.

I have tried both DVD+R & DVD-R and still same issue. I will try and burn at a slower speed to see if that helps.

Thanks,

I tried burning at 4X speed with the same results.

It appears no matter what speed I burn at it always freezes in the exact spot on the dvd.

Thanks,

How are you burning it? Do you have the VOBs saved on your HDD? Or are you burning on the fly?

(on the fly) Try imaging it to your HDD first, then burning.

Does the movie have copy protection/region protection? Is this NTSC or PAL?

What brand DVD's are you using and what brand burner do you have?

Are you compressing it at all (fitting a 9.6GB movie on a 4.7GB disc)??

Hey guys, I'm having a similiar issue except my burns don't get messed up in the same spots and they play like crap on either a PC or DVD player. I've used different format DVDs (-R +R) as well as Dual Layers to avoid compression. I use Nero to make DVD videos. I usually create a Nero image file to my hard drive and have burned as slow as 2X on a DL, with nothing else running and the burns still crap out. They usually only start to mess up near the end of the movie. If I mount the Nero image files with Daemon Tools, they play fine in PowerDVD.

If I have to buy a new drive, what are your suggestions? I just want to fix this damn problem because I'm tired of the coasters. I've tried various brands from Verbatim, Memorex, Dynex and Fujifilm with mixed results although the only DL brand I've used are Dynex.

Specs are:

Lite-On SOHW-1673S, latest firmware (JS0D)
AMD Athlon XP 2600-M (OC'd 2305)
Abit NF7-S V2.0
1 GB Geil Value Ram
Windows XP, SP2
2 80GB SATA II Seagates, RAID 0

Lite-On has always been good to me past, or have I just been lucky?

This will happen regardless of whether or not I OC the system.

I'd suggest ripping the DVD in its VOB form, then burning it. Cuz I think the VOB form is basically the data structures from the DVD, so you're not working with any weird image files or anything.

I used Nero 6 Ultra and (when it still worked) a lite-on 1633, i think thats the model number. I use Verbatim DVD-Rs and Verbatim DL's and they're good. Only coasters I really have are from hardware issues.

I never had many issues w/ the 1633 until the ball bearing went bad. Coasters galore, even if the DVD-R got read right...
I just got the new lightscribe lite-on, but haven't done much w/ it yet. So far I've got 2 DVD's burned but no DL's yet.

Lite-on's been good to me. I've used about 6 CD-RW's from them and 4 DVD-RWs from them, and the only problem I had was w/ the ball bearing mentioned above.

Anoobis, it seems that you have a burning issue? You might want to try to make you HDD on a separate IDE channel than the burner, if it isn't already.

And the OP has a playback issue?

I am compressing the movie with DVD Shrink 3.2 and saving it to my hard drive. Then I use Nero to burn the compressed file to fit on a single layer 4.5 gb dvd.

Try splitting the movie instead, then burn part 1 on a DVD.
It might be possible that on some part of the movie its going under the MPEG 2 spec or something, which your DVD player wouldn't recognize.

I haven't used DVDShrink in a while, but if you can, rip the DVD in VOB, then split it. Then use Nero to burn the split VOB.

Can you try playing your DVD's in another computer?

This might be any of a combination of problems. However, I'll put forth my guess as such: it really sounds like a disc problem.

I've had disks from certain manufacturers that will only play on my home computer and nowhere else. I would suggest taking a "backup" copy of one of your movies to a store that sells DVD players and see if it will run on any of their players. Since it is highly unlikely that they are all broken, you can conclude that if your disk doesn't work on various brand new players, then you have a disk/burning problem. If your disk does play on the new players, then the old players being used by you and your friends are the problem. If it won't play anywhere but your own PC, then your problem lies in how you are burning your media.

But at least that will point you in the right direction.

For burning, I use AnyDVD running in the background with DVDShrink. Then Nero. Voila! So far, about 99% successful.

My two hard drives are both on a SATA RAID 0. The Lite-On is the secondary master so I don't think that is the issue. I'll try encoding the vobs directly to the hard drives instead of a Nero image. Then burn it to the DVD but, as noted earlier, the Nero image plays perfectly when I mount it with Daemon Tools and play it back with PowerDVD so I think it is either the media (but I've tried several) or the drive.

Another interesting quirk to note. The menus I create in Nero don't work properly when playing the DVD on my PC but they work fine when playing them in regular DVD player. There's usually green stripes across them and when you click on one of the links to another menu, the screen doesn't change but the links on the menu does. That being said, if I eject the DVD and put it back in, the menus start to work correctly. When I mount the image in Daemon Tools and play the file, the menus work perfectly.

Also, the particular DVD I'm having trouble with is one that I made out of some AVI files. There's 2 separate titles, one with chapters I made in Nero, the other without chapters. The title with chapters is the one that gets screwed up towards the end. Is there a problem running a setup like this??

Is the fact that the files usually start screwing up towards the end of the disk point to a drive issue? Perhaps the drive itself runs into issues as it get closer and closer to burning on the outer part of the disk??

This is just really frustrating.

Yeah, I've had DVDs work in PowerDVD before but have glitches on the disc. Its probably a burning issue, but it has to do some stuff to convert the image to the disc.

This kind of sounds like you're just trying to play the DVD after burning (w/o taking it out?). Shrug, I don't know. But it seems like the player might have an issue w/ Nero being done w/ it or something. Might be a conflicting codec? When you reinsert the DVD, it might reinitialize it correctly. Hard to say.

So that means you have 2 videos on a single DVD, and one has nested menus? I don't think that would be an issue, but hey, you can always burn them separately and see what happens As long as your version of Nero supports nested menus, I don't think that would matter?
HoldenMcGroin's got a good point. Its quite odd that it has issues at the end of the disc. Normally when I put a DVD into a non-compatible player it won't read at all. I'd hate to advise you to get a new burner, then find out its not the burner's fault.
Got any friends that can burn you a copy of that DVD?

Just wanted to say I took nobly's advice about buring the vobs and not a Nero image file. Worked like a charm. Screw those damn images. Thanks for all your help!!

wtf Nero and Cyberlink Power2Go sux sh@t

use this http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download to burn dvd images. I use this and it plays perfect on any home dvd player. It burns all known formats as well.
oh never burn on the fly always make .img or.iso file to hard drive first then burn.

or better yet use DVD Decypter to rip your dvds in iso format to use hard drive download it here http://www.mrbass.org/dvdrip/ this program makes a perfect mirror of the original dvd.

Cool! I'm glad that worked out for you. Ever since I've been doing DVD burning, I've always done VOBs and avoided images. Plus then its easier to edit as well.