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Can't watch burned movies I've watched before
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dmilesut
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20. November 2006 @ 17:51 |
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Ok, pretty frustrated. We have all of our movies on burned DVD's. The last few DVD's we have tried to watch, have not worked. They worked in the past, but do not work now. They play fine for about 20 minutes or so and then they start to get choppy and eventually come to a hault, pausing on a certain scene from which we can no longer press play or fast forward.
Any ideas?
We use ICopyDVD2 with DVD 43. The DVD player is a magnavox mdv456. We only use verbatim DVD-R.
We've had problems in the past with the movies on other DVD players, but a family member has this particular DVD player and have never had a problem so we got it as well and now have issues.
It's frustrating because I showed the family member how to do everything and they have never had a problem and we have had many issues.
I'm very close to building a small computer to put in the entertainment center so we can watch our DVD's!
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21. November 2006 @ 18:49 |
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22. November 2006 @ 01:25 |
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I would change my media to the +R media and try to booktype your media to DVD-ROMs. this would make it more compatible with DVD players! here is some more advise on compatibility:
there are plenty of reasons why certain dvds won't play in other players:
1. burning speeds: burn at 4x so there will be less writing errors (rule of thumb is to burn at half the rated speed of the disk--8X disk burn at 4x).
2. read manual for your stand alone player and use the disks that will play in your player. If your player is less than 2 yrs old then it should play the + or - R disks! I said SHOULD that's why you read the manual.
3. try booktyping your drive to DVd-ROM so it will make your +R disks more compatible to players. Read this:
http://k-probe.com/bitsetting-booktype-faq.php
4. make sure that there are no finger prints or scratches on your disk that make it hard for the player to read the disk!
5. use good quality media (rule of thumb....buy the ones that are Made in Japan.) Verbatim is a top notch disk and is the only exception to this rule....some Verbatims are made in Taiwan and they are top notch!
6. and don't burn too close to the outer edge of the disk ..... which will make the disk unreadable! but using good media you will be able to burn close to the edge better than lesser quality media. Just in case I only burn no closer than 4400MB, so if you can set your programs to that, all the better!
follow these little tips of the trade and you'll have better success! good luck.
what speed are your disks burned at and what's the rated speed of those Verbatim disks?
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22. November 2006 @ 01:28 |
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dmilesut
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22. November 2006 @ 02:48 |
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I reply more later. I have to leave for work :(.
The speed of the disc is either 4X or 8X. The reason I am particularly frustrated is the movie I am trying to watch has been watched on this DVD player many times as have a few other movies and all of the sudden will not work. It also perterbs me because we have ~500 movies in this format. We just want a sure fire way to know that everything will always play and not have movies stop 20 minutes into it.
As I said, I will reply with more this evening. Thanks for the info though. There are a lot of things I did not know about and will investigate.
-Dustin
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22. November 2006 @ 05:15 |
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So you bought a $40 DVD player, and it won't play home made disks! That's not too surprising. The reflectivity of recordable media is much lower than that of commercial pressings, and a cheap player may have trouble picking up the signal. Your symptom is typical for a weak laser...giving intermittent "dirty" disk symptoms. Depending how wide your circle of friends is, you might want to test your disks on higher end players, such as a Sony or a Toshiba.....
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22. November 2006 @ 06:15 |
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I agree with Galbin. Sounds like your player needs cleaned or the laser is getting weak. I do agree with IHoe on the type of media to use. But in this case you are using Verbatim and you said you have watched these DVDs before without trouble. So I would think since your using quality media that it isn't an issue with the disc deteriorating beyond being able to play.
As suggested by Galbin try to play in another player. Also try to get a DVD lens cleaning kit and clean the player see if that makes a difference.
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22. November 2006 @ 08:08 |
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just passing thru... there's some very good cheap DVD players out there, you don't need to have expensive players to get 100% playability at all.
What is needed are good burning practices, (plus good source material ie sufficient quality movie data to start with, obviously), decent media & burn speed that's suitable for a person's system setup, but it's not necessary to have real expensive players
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22. November 2006 @ 11:21 |
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They play fine for about 20 minutes or so and then they start to get choppy and eventually come to a hault, pausing on a certain scene from which we can no longer press play or fast forward
If that's the only drive showing those issues,clean the laser lens. That's a last resort,before replacement. Those cleaning discs have been known to ruin drives,so that's why I consider it a last resort and if that's the only drive that shows those issues. Test those backups on other drives- ps2's,x-box,pc dvd drives,or other stand alones.
I had the same issue with a nice sony player. Played everything thrown at it until the exact issues that you described popped up after a couple years or so.I tested older backups-same issue. A lens cleaning helped,but it really started skipping/freezing when I started playing DL backups on her. A new $35 el cheapo wal mart special magnavox player took care of that.
Black friday sales coming up. Radio shack and Walmart has a couple players on sale.
Confirm your backups on another player,and make sure your PC plays it perfect using the same DVD-RW drive that burned it. Check that 20 min sector out upon playback and see how she looks.Playback quality should be near perfection on your pc.
What's the brand name and model # of your DVD-RW drive?
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dmilesut
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22. November 2006 @ 18:44 |
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I have a Plextor PX-708A.
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dmilesut
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22. November 2006 @ 19:32 |
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The laser weakness is a good thought. I had not thought of that. I do know however, that I have purchased and returned 2-3 nice DVD players and they did not work. My sister had this magnavox that we have had success with and is the season why I have that now. However, after the move, it doesn't seem to be working. I am the one who setup my sister to be burning movies and they have had no issues what so ever and we have the exact same setup from burner, media, programs, to dvd player.
All of the movies we have ever burned have played fine on the our computer, but has been spotty on all of our DVD players with the exception of the magnavox until now.
Do you guys have a suggestion for a DVD player? I'm willing to fork over the money. We really just don't want a movie to stop in the middle of the story line.
Thank you for the replies!
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23. November 2006 @ 04:24 |
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I've got a Magnovox MWD 200F that came from walmart.Very tiny and only $36 a year ago. The only drawback is no Progressive scan. What's nice is wal-mart's return policy of no questions asked in case you buy 1 there and it won't play.
She plays everything perfect that I throw in her from any of my 7 burners. I know 5 other friends and family members who bought the same 200F and also have no issues with my backups.
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we have the exact same setup from burner, media, programs, to dvd player.
You're suppose to make your backups better than hers, LOL
Is it another Plextor 708A? Stand alone players can pick out something wrong when playing backups from different burners.That's the burner drive quality factor. Can your sis play your backups ok?
Plextors are also very sweet/quality drives.It should have the bitsetting capability to booktype the plus format to dvd-rom using plextools.That comes in handy if you have a stand alone player that kicks out a no disc error if using dash or plus format. Booktyping the plus format sets them to dvd-rom.Maybe some of your other stand alones gave you that no disc/dirty disc/wrong region/or wrong format type of error.
If you have plextools,try running some scans on your backups like PI/PO test and a few others that they have.
What's the current firmware version for your Plextor 708A?
Firmware controls the writing strategy for your backups,especially when burning the newer 16x media. Some of these quality DVD-RW drives have to burn the quality 16x media like verbatim at a faster speed of 8x and above for optimum results.
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23. November 2006 @ 22:20 |
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It's your Magnavox player, toss it, it's junk. Your whole movie collection didn't just simultaneously go bad.
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