Hey, another newbie here, I've been using DvD Shrink and Nero to back up my home collection. The problem I've been having is when I play the copied dvd on my home dvd player, the movie will play, but every 5 to 10 seconds it will freeze momentarily. It does this throughout the whole movie. I've tried different media brands with same result. Is this perhaps a defect in the burner itself? Any recommendations?
I suppose that it might be the burner, but I would guess not. I think that it is a media issue and possibly burning too close to the edge of the media as well as burn speed.
I would suggest not burning faster than 4x. Setting the target size in shrink to 4300 (done at edit>preferences>Preference tab, select the down arrow and select custom and type in 4300.) Using good quality media from taio yuden, verbatim, maxell, fuji, sony (Made in Japan Media prefferably).
If your backup freezes, stutters, skips, or has some pixelation, it is more than likely due to poor quality media being used. Cheap media is poorly manufactured around the edge of the disc, hence the reason why it mostly skips or freezes from the middle toward the end of the movie. The two main things to consider first are:
1. Is it cheap media that you are using? (ie. some off brand you bought at a local computer store/fair, even a store like Circuit City or Best Buy sells cheap low quality media.)
2. How fast are you burning? - Burn no faster than 4X, might have to go down to 2X with really cheap media.
Open DVD Shrink. Click "Edit", then "Preferences". On the first tab at the top in the drop down box, change it from "DVD-5 (4.7GB) to "Custom" and enter a number of 4200MB (4464MB is burning to the edge of the disc, you want to stay away from the edge as the edge of cheap media (disc's) are poorly manufactured). Screen Shot Below:
great post ... helped me too .... Im only having freezing trouble in "movie only mode after I reauthour it though .... thought that was strange ... (mid to end periodic freezing) all the regular burns using full disk and shrinking the menus and extras were fine...dont get that one!!! (used 4462mb on all, but Im going to shrink it down to 4200 or 4300 from now on.
