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kranecu

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6. May 2004 @ 11:48

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I have been using nero and dvd shrink to convert avi movies to dvd for use on my sony dvd player. All movies that I have made start out working great but get progressively worse towards the end of the movie. Some play up to the last 5 minutes without error, others start skipping after an hour, some play the whole way through without a skip.

My point is that the problems progress as the dvd plays.

Is there something I can do to improve the quality of my dvds? Perhaps:
1. not running programs in the background
2. changing settings on my software
3. using different media (using liquid video now)
4. using different software
5. shrinking movies more... or less

I don't think there is a problem with the source files since they play fine on wmp as avi.

(I will not be able to check this until sunday night as I am going out of town)

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Nephilim

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6. May 2004 @ 11:58

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Hi,

I'll answer in order :)

1) Leave the computer be when burning. Have a cup of coffee, go nag the wife or whatever just let it do it's thing in peace.

2) Depends on what settings you're using now.

3) Definitely use different media. Your problem is a classic symptom of poor media. Ritek G04 or some sort of Metal AZO media are the best.

4) Shrink and Nero are a knockout combo, stay with them.

5) Setting the target file size lower in Shrink tends to clear up skipping/freezing at the end by keeping data further away from the edge of the disc where errors are most likely to occur. You may also try burning your Liquid Video media slower until you get some of the good stuff.

Hope this helps :)

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mastaprk

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6. May 2004 @ 12:01

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I would recommend upgrading media to Ritek G04 and continue using Shrink/Nero process to compress/burn. I believe that scubapete recommends reducing the settings in Shrink to 60MB below the maximum size. I consider a low compression at ~55% and I will try to keep most DVD's above this. When I compress at ~55%, I cannot notice too much of a difference on a 32" Sony TV. You can probably get by with only upgrading your media and not making any other changes.

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michigan

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6. May 2004 @ 19:15

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Yes reduce the size to 4300 which is what I use but certainly not more than 4364 which is the Scuba Pete maximum recomended setting

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kranecu

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12. May 2004 @ 15:35

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sorry for the late reply. This is all very helpful advise. I love this forum. Anyone know the cheapest way to get ritek dvd-r with g4 dye without buying 1,000 disks?

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Jerry746

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12. May 2004 @ 17:49

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What is your general location. We need to know where you are at to answer the last question.

Jerry

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forkndave

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12. May 2004 @ 18:33

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If you are in the US you can get 25 Ritek G04 from meritline.com for $24.75 with free shipping. Supermediastore.com has 50 for $39.50 with free shipping. You may be able to buy less someplace, but I don't think it would be worth the bother. If you're not in the US I'm afraid I can't help you.

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forkndave

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12. May 2004 @ 18:35

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Braxas

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12. May 2004 @ 18:39

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One thing worth looking into also, since I don't know what kind of burner you have exactly, is to potentially pick up a DVD-R or DVD+R sampler pack while you're ordering your Ritek G04's from supermediastore.com. I'm still waiting for mine but it has a couple of the brands I've been wanting to try (Has 2 Ritek DVD+R's in the +R pack as well which I know are good) that are some of the cheaper brands. The DVD+R pack contains 2 Ritek's, 2 Optodisc, 2 Prodisc, 2 Linkyo and I think 2 Princo discs. All worth trying at least once and I'm really curious about the Linkyo media since it has an AZO dye and they are so cheap. :)

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