I have recently been burning avi files to dvd with nero, convertxtodvd and apollo dixv to dvd. These programs tend to work most of the time, and i get a "successful burn;" but when i place it into my PS2, the video output is choppy. It plays, is slow, basically terrible. Sometimes though, this isnt the case. I really dont know what to do, and im sick and tired of wasting so many blank dvds. So I dont think it is the PS2, because some have worked. I have a toshiba dvd player and it isnt hooked up, but shouldnt all of these dvds work fine on the ps2/other decent quality players? When i put the DVD i burned with Convertxtodvd and then burned w/ Ashampoo into my computer's dvd player, they play fine. I dont know what to do?
The PS2 is very picky about what discs it will play; so it could be the PS2 player's inability to follow the track of the recorded discs while other DVD players do it much more easily.
If the discs play in other DVD players, then there is some incompatibility between them and the PS2. You can try recording onto another brand of DVD+/-R disc to see if that makes a difference. If it does, stick with that brand for its compatibility between your recording drive and PS2.
All well recorded discs should play back in decent DVD players and drives, but that seldom happens for a number of various reasons.
There may be nothing out of specification with the PS2; but if it is one end of a tolerance and the discs on the other end, they may not cooperate. I wish I had a PS2 to check out its drive, but I have noticed a number of complaints about playback problems with that particular drive. The typical answer is to change media brands, but the fact that the discs work on other DVD players is some indication that the discs are OK. (The fact that the discs play on the drive that recorded them is usual, even if something is amiss with the discs. The ability to play on multiple drives is known as "interchangeability," and this characteristic is determined by testing on calibrated equipment.)
Since the discs sometimes play in the PS2, the file format should also be OK. If your Toshiba DVD player can also read the discs, then that is more evidence that the problem lies with the PS2. If it cannot play them, then it's possible the problem lies with the burning quality on the discs (assuming that the files on the discs conform to the DVD-video spec.)
