[ReplayMirsky]

OK, I have learned a lot about what NOT to do since my last posts to this forum, and I'm down to hopefully my last obstacle / problem. I will describe exactly how I'm going about making the DVDs after explaining the issue. The problem is when I play back my DVDs on any DVD player, they seem to play, search (fwd or back), pause, chapter jump, etc. perfectly fine for the first 5-10 minutes of the video. But beyond that, it occasionally works, but often locks up, gets 'jerky' or the video gets all "blocked out" - meaning digital, colored blocks appear and siappear all over.


OK, here's the process I've been using. I start with a ReplayTV MPEG recorded at MEDIUM quality, downloaded to a 533MHz PC via DVArchive. (Important side note: for the purposes of this issue, I have also used a NON REPLAY TV MPEG-2 file and get IDENTICAL results, so the problem is NOT the Replay file.) I open the MPEG-2 file in Womble / MPEG-VCR and mark-in and mark-out, then copy to clipboard, all segments I'm KEEPING. I close the original file, drag the clipboard contents back one by one and SAVE my final (commercial free) video as an MPEG-2 PROGRAM STREAM (after making sure the audio is properly synched with the video)


Next, I hop on over to a faster 800MHz PC and open Nero 6 Suite (FULL OEM - not Ultra, but also not SE2) I use NeroVision Express 2 (again, NOT SE because I've learned that was my last problem) and I now add chapters, menus, layouts, text descriptions, etc. and I save a DVD-Video to the local hard drive; I've also learned that Nero ackhowledges problems going right to a DVD. So, I use NVE2 to create the VIDEO_TS folder and files locally on the 800MHz PC... but keep in mind, the MPEG-2 file I'm authoring is on another PC on my LAN. In my opinion, this should not cause a problem other than adding lots of time to the process. Anyway, I end up with a VIDEO_TS folder with all the needed files. Then it's off to NeroBurningROM ** OR ** Nero Express (on the same 800MHz PC) where I burn the actual DVD-R from the hard drive files. Using EITHER of the apps designed to do this step, it burns clean, with no errors, but when played back I get the results I described above. I have also learned that DVD+R media only plays on one of my DVD players, the -R media tracks well on both up; well, the menu and first 5-10 min. are fine anyway... after that, it gets VERY unpredictable.


DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS?? Please help!

 

[rkramer]

burn slower, try different media, try a different burner... if it plays at all you have the formatting right

 

[l8er]

[pedant]


The word is: temperamental


[/pedant]

 

[cdurys]

try different dvd player i have a govideo that acts similar once the unit gets warm it cannot read burned discs well originals are always fine.


if i play in my phillips 640 model all discs are fine


most of my problems are with my govideo players i have another that cannot sync the audio on a dvd from replay files

 

[ReplayMirsky]

That's kind of odd... I am not your typical language 'flunkie' in fact, quite the opposite. My grammar is always pretty darn accurate, punctuation better than most and spelling is dead on 98% of the time. How did I not know 'temperamental' had that 'a' in it? Granted, internet boards / forums always seem to make people worse with the whole spelling and grammar thing, but thanks for the correction nonetheless.

 

[Slack]

another vote for changing media brand.

 

[Jeff D]

Not only is the media ususally a cause, but the burning app can be the cause too.


For Nero, make sure you have the latest version, check weekly they rev it every few weeks.


RecordNowMax and the recording engine 4.5 is what is needed.


One other question... when you burn, are you doing the verify too? If not that would be a great place to start.


And I don't know the answer to this... Nero author a disc without reencoding the video and audio? I hope so, but I don't know if this is the case. Personally I always convert replay MP2 files to AC3 stereo tracks before burning for compatibility, I'm not sure if nero does something with these "out of spec" MP2 files. MP2 is out of spec only because there's only two "spec'd" formats for DVD.... DD and PCM, everything else "may" work, but many authroring packages do strange things with these streams.


BTW did you run your extracted mpeg through rtvtools before editing in mpeg2vcr?