Right. Got a DVD burner, and a shitload of films and TV shows that need to be burned off. Using Nero Vision Express at the moment, but getting a load of jerky video and audio slippage from my usually reliable DVD player.
What do you use, and reccommend? Ta very much, fellow piratey scab-dogs.
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Burning onto DVD
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Is this a computer DVD burner drive or a standalone connect to your TV type? I don't have too much experiance with the second. I just use my computer for all my burns, works wonderful. Drive one reads the disk, drive two writes it. I use DVD Shrink and DVD Decrypt and the videos turn out great. If you are using this setup, (doesn't sound like you are), I'd try a different software, different compression settings or different media. For movies I like DVD-R/RW media vs the +R/RW because it works in more dvd players.
If you are using a standalone dvd writer attached to your TV/VCR then I'd look at a bad connection between your TV/VCR and your DVD writer? Use s-video or composite if you can instead of regular BNC cable. Perhaps you can change the compression settings? Maybe you have it set on high compression so you can fit more stuff on your disk? Can you change the MPEG format or are you maybe doing an AVI movie format instead of the default DVD stuff? Perhaps its the disk thats the problem. Try a different brand. Also if you changed things, you might consider reseting everything back to factory and try to do a burn that way. Remember that VCR and TV stuff will not be as clear on a DVD as you would expect it to be because you are working with an analog signal. Also have you tried to play the movie in your computer DVD player (if you have one) to see if it looks any better, to make sure it isn't your DVD player thats the problem? What about re-playing it on the dvd writer to see how it plays the recording?
Anything less then 1 year old should support all DVD formats.
If you are using a standalone dvd writer attached to your TV/VCR then I'd look at a bad connection between your TV/VCR and your DVD writer? Use s-video or composite if you can instead of regular BNC cable. Perhaps you can change the compression settings? Maybe you have it set on high compression so you can fit more stuff on your disk? Can you change the MPEG format or are you maybe doing an AVI movie format instead of the default DVD stuff? Perhaps its the disk thats the problem. Try a different brand. Also if you changed things, you might consider reseting everything back to factory and try to do a burn that way. Remember that VCR and TV stuff will not be as clear on a DVD as you would expect it to be because you are working with an analog signal. Also have you tried to play the movie in your computer DVD player (if you have one) to see if it looks any better, to make sure it isn't your DVD player thats the problem? What about re-playing it on the dvd writer to see how it plays the recording?
Anything less then 1 year old should support all DVD formats.
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Nish, when I started making DVDs of my girls a year ago, I first used Nero. I quickly dumped it in favor of Sonic MyDVD because Nero was jacking up the audio and giving me some bizzare pixelation / fuzzyness along the right side of the screen.
Sonic appears to be a more idiot-level application, which suits me fine, but has worked GREAT for me. I use a mini DV camcorder and pull down avi files from it, then burn to disc wit great results.
PM me if you have other questions, but that's the way i'd go.
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Sonic appears to be a more idiot-level application, which suits me fine, but has worked GREAT for me. I use a mini DV camcorder and pull down avi files from it, then burn to disc wit great results.
PM me if you have other questions, but that's the way i'd go.
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I should mention that the open source DVD copiers all use whatever DVD writer software you have installed. Mine use Nero but I don't use the NeroVision portion. I personally like Nero more then Sonic which we use to burn CDs/DVDs at work but certainly trying something different might be enough to solve your problem.
I don't know the huge technical stuff, but I've noticed that my newer DVD player plays DVDs I copied without skipping or pixelating whereas my older Panasonic DVD player from 5 years ago is a toss up. Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it does. Check the discs on other players and see if the same things happen.