You think this is a problem with my DVD player or my DVD-R disks?

[DARRIN]

Very strange problem started to occur last night. And it happened on 4 different DVD-R disks. I just bought a Denon DVD-900 player Saturday. We were watching a DVD-R disk on the new Denon and it started to get corrupt data, skipping, and finally locked up. I put the disk in my $80 Toshiba player and it played that section just fine. But in about 20 minutes it started doing the same thing. So each time one of the players would start messing up I would pop the disk out and stick it in the other DVD player. I can't see how it is the disk because each time it messed up I would put it in the other player and that section of the disk would start playing just fine. Any thoughts?

 

[DARRIN]

You think that I should try the Panasonic XP30?

 

[DARRIN]

*tap*tap*tap* is this thing on?

 

[Robor]

(that's not for you... i just wanted to see the new rolling eyes icon)

Anyway, I'd suggest trying different media. Do you have a friend that has a DVD burner and has some different media you could experiment with?

 

[DARRIN]

Do different DVD players read DVD-R media better then other players? I have quite a few of this kind of media and do not know any one else that has a burner to bumb a few blanks off of.

 

[Dreadogg]

what software are you using to burn the media, and what burner are you using to burn with, and the brand of media is?

 

[CZroe]

The brand of media may work fine in some players but not in these two. A better brand may work in these two also. In short, try better media then blame the player. Most players were designed to play pressed/manufactured DVDs, not low-quality DVD-Rs

 

[Dreadogg]

Originally posted by: CZroe
The brand of media may work fine in some players but not in these two. A better brand may work in these two also. In short, try better media then blame the player. Most players were designed to play pressed/manufactured DVDs, not low-quality DVD-Rs

No try burning the disks the right way, most errors with DVD's are user error not player, media, or burner. Compadibility is really easy to achive with the right skillz. I take my disks to circuit city, sams club, bestbuy etc... and test them all for compadibility. My disk work in about 95% of the players DVD -R burned with pioneer a-05 I have found that Record Now Max gives me the best compadibility or DVD decrypter in ISO mode read write if you can achive this, but dont go doing this with DVD's that have already been burned and are jacked up. DVD2ONE works great for people that are new to DVD's, not the best quality, just make sure that you use IFO edit to get VTS sectors on the IFO file. Ipersonally do not like Instant copy I beleave it creates less compadible disks. I personally use CCE to encode and meastro/IFOedit to author along with RNM to burn.

 

[DrVos]

What speed are you burning at? Some media can be flaky at anything over 1x.

 

[DARRIN]

Thanks for the resplies guys. I have the Pioneer 105. I use both DVDXCopy and DVD Decrcipter/DVD2One. This just happened with a few disks. All burnt at 1X speed. I just picked up a new DVD playerlast night, Panasonic model XP50, and all is well so far.

 

[CZroe]

Originally posted by: DARRIN
Thanks for the resplies guys. I have the Pioneer 105. I use both DVDXCopy and DVD Decrcipter/DVD2One. This just happened with a few disks. All burnt at 1X speed. I just picked up a new DVD playerlast night, Panasonic model XP50, and all is well so far.

With the same discs?

 

[DARRIN]

Originally posted by: CZroe

Originally posted by: DARRIN
Thanks for the resplies guys. I have the Pioneer 105. I use both DVDXCopy and DVD Decrcipter/DVD2One. This just happened with a few disks. All burnt at 1X speed. I just picked up a new DVD playerlast night, Panasonic model XP50, and all is well so far.

With the same discs?

Yes.

 

[duhh]

I started having similar probs with my apex after I had played at least 10 dvd-rs from various manufacturers without a prob. Turns out, the thing was overheating. I had a VCR sitting on top of the apex. Could have fried an egg up there. Gave it proper airflow and all is well.

 

[Dreadogg]

yea apex are known for overheating, maybe slap a big a$$ heatsink fan combo on there and you will be all good. I see from the software you have listed your still not getting VTS sectors.

 

[Eug]

Originally posted by: Dreadogg

Originally posted by: CZroe
The brand of media may work fine in some players but not in these two. A better brand may work in these two also. In short, try better media then blame the player. Most players were designed to play pressed/manufactured DVDs, not low-quality DVD-Rs

No try burning the disks the right way, most errors with DVD's are user error not player, media, or burner.

I disagree. Media is a huge issue.

I don't use anything but Apple $3 any more, since it's the cheapest top tier media I can buy locally. Cheap media is too unreliable. Tried with three different burners, and multiple different players, as well as several software programs. By the way, I burn much of my stuff on my Mac these days, since it's much harder to screw it up on a Mac.

I started having similar probs with my apex after I had played at least 10 dvd-rs from various manufacturers without a prob. Turns out, the thing was overheating. I had a VCR sitting on top of the apex. Could have fried an egg up there. Gave it proper airflow and all is well.

I stuck a big heatsink on the main video chip. All the problems went away.