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rhymeswithpurpl

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Ok, so i have been trying to transfer my VHS home movies to DVD. For this, I bought the "dazzle video recorder". The thing works great (I think...) and I have recorded about 60 minutes of video to my computer. With the recorder came the Pinnacle Studio 10, which i used to edit the video, make chapters, and so on.

So I go to burn the DVD, and everything runs smoothly. Here are the specs:
- 12 chapters total
- burned at 2.4x
- 'best quality'
- maxell dvd-r 16x burn speed

On the first try, I captured the vhs in an AVI file type. It didn't work. I thought, oh i'll try it in mpeg2 at 10000 kbits/s. Still nothing. The DVD WILL NOT PLAY IN A MY SONY DVD/VHS COMBO PLAYER (non-recording). I mean it will play for about 30 seconds, then freeze up, lag, skip, jump, pixelate... and all the while, the player whistles and rings. Like it's eating up the disc or something. Then the thing goes goofy and refuses to eject the disc.

But here's the kicker: the dvd will play in all of my computer dvd players without any problems.

WHAT IS UP WITH THIS??!!! and why does my dvd player whine like a kid at toys-r-us?:confused: :confused: :confused: :eek:
 
DVD players prefair certain type of DVD + or - some will play both without any problems. You need to buy the right kind of DVD and burn it the correct format.
 
CG man said:
DVD players prefair certain type of DVD + or - some will play both without any problems. You need to buy the right kind of DVD and burn it the correct format.
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ok, how do i find out all of this information? I'm not too technologically inclinded, so i have no idea what + or - means. or the format. please elaborate.
 
It's not a + or - issues. If that was the case, your drive wouldn't read it, period.

http://www.videohelp.com/dvd

Maybe this will help. You're probably just not encoding it correctly. Perhaps too high of quality. Also, as odd as it might sound, cheap DVD players tend to play such disks better than the expensive ones. As for your computer, well it's just made to play anything, so it's no big suprise when it can play a non-standard DVD.
 
hmmmmm

that's very interesting, the_other_one...

you may be right about the quality. maybe my player spazzes out when it encounters too much info at once. I'll try lowering the video to 5000 kbits/s, like the link says.

***but this thread is not closed! please respond if you have any ideas!***
 
the absolute max data rate for video and audio COMBINED for dvd is 10mb/s

the dvd will play on your computer because it's using software decompression, which will decode whatever's thrown at it

your dvd player uses hardware decompression, it's designed to do strict dvd mpeg 2 decompression only, and can't deal with the extra bandwidth.

The only pressed dvd videos that even approach full 10mb/s bandwidth are the sony super-dvd's or whatever they're called, where's it's an entire dual-layer dvd with no extra features. It's just the movie, dts audio, and nothing else.

Hope this helps.
 
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