when burning DVDs, the quality is REALLY laggy?

bamhm182

bamhm182

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whenever I burn a DVD, than try to play it on my DVD players, one person will be shown on the screen while the other one is talking, when I play the video from my HDD it all matches up, but it is just COMPLETELY off when I put it on a DVD. Any suggestions??
 
alright, thanks, I know how to do everything exept for burning at lower speeds, I used to know how to change that I think, but I can't remember now. So how would I change the burn speed?
 
what program do you use for burning?
there is normally a setting prior to burning that allows you to set speed.
 
okay, thanks, I don't really have a program right now, I had to reformat, than a pen exploded on my nero CD, so it doesn't work anymore, do you have any sugestions for a CD/DVD burning program? I know this is probobly a stupid question as I don't think it does, but does the Windows Media Player burn DVDs?
 
Thanks, all I want it to do is put the movie on the disk, so it'll work great for me.

EDIT: Now that I have a good burning program, got any good programs for ripping DVDs?
 
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When you play on your hdd are you playing it from the video (avi, mpeg etc) or from a dvd folder, video_ts.ifo file?

Are avis involved anywhere in the production of these dvds?

You can't discuss ripping in the forum on account of it being illegal, ripping being taken to mean any copyrighted material or material protected by the DCMA.

Starman*
 
bamhm182 said:
Thanks, all I want it to do is put the movie on the disk, so it'll work great for me.

EDIT: Now that I have a good burning program, got any good programs for ripping DVDs?
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Ripping DVDs? what do you mean by that....?
Do you mean like putting it in oyur PC? Simple.
Go to my computer, and open the DVD drive (your DVD must be in the optical drive) and open it. then simply copy it. If its a protected movie.....ha! you can't, you won't be able. (its protected)
 
Starman* said:
When you play on your hdd are you playing it from the video (avi, mpeg etc) or from a dvd folder, video_ts.ifo file?

Are avis involved anywhere in the production of these dvds?

You can't discuss ripping in the forum on account of it being illegal, ripping being taken to mean any copyrighted material or material protected by the DCMA.

Starman*
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yeah, what I'm doing is watching it strait from my hard drive and then with the burning part, I was using nero and just telling it to burn it and leaving it alone, but ink spilled on the CD, so I can't install it anymore:(. sorry about the ripping part, I wasn't aware that it was illegal because the Windows Media player has a whole tab dedicated to ripping, so I assumed it wasn't...
 
You didn't answer the questions very clearly.

Let's say you have an mpeg or avi, you normally play it on the pc by double-clicking that file or by opening with a player. There will be no menus or navigation like on a dvd. I think that is what you meant.

Alternatively, when you are creating a dvd from that movie, you can first create a dvd folder on the pc which can be played just like the dvd with menus and navigation. No disk or burning involved. It's a good way to test the dvd before burning. To play this way you have to click on the video_ts.ifo file you created.

The second question was whether the dvd is created from an avi movie. Avi files can have timing errors on them. Also, variable bit rate files can produce timing errors when creating a dvd. Was the movie an avi or vbr?

If the movie is variable bit rate you can sometimes cure the problem by re-encoding at constant bit rate.

Your best bet is to create the dvd folder on your pc and test that before burning. It will save on disks. Hopefully, if the "dvd" on your pc plays OK, so will the burned version.

Starman*
 
when I go to watch a movie, I go to my documents, than my videos, than I double click on the movie that I want to watch, it than opens in Windows Media Player.

I am pretty sure that the movie was an avi, I'm not 100% sure, but I think it was.

Thanks for all of your help, I hope I answered them better this time
 
Stranglehold, you should not use the free version of Deepburner for burning dvd video. That function is only available in the Pro version. If you burn your dvd folder as a data dvd (which free Deepburner can do) the files will be in the wrong order on the disk and may not play on a standalone dvd player. The order of files should be ifo, vob, bup. A data dvd incorrectly puts the bup first. Proper dvd burning software burns the files in the correct order. A pc is more tolerant of an off-spec dvd.

Bamhm182, what software you are using for authoring and burning the dvd? Do you understand what I mean by a dvd folder?

One useful utility to find out the format/codec of the video is GSpot.

If the dvd is from an avi with variable bit rate audio (vbr), that can cause loss of sync. There can also be other problems with avis. You could try to convert the avi to constant bit rate audio. Do you have any software that can do that?

Starman*
 
at the moment, I am not using a burning program, when I burned the movie a while ago, I was using Nero though.

And I have NO idea what you are talking about when you're talking about the DVD folder.

And I don't have a program that'll do that right now, I bet I could probobly find one really easy though. I think I'm going to wait to get the new programs untill I get my computer and put it together, wouldn't really make much ince to install a program, than install it again this weekend.
 
I may have misunderstood what you are doing. People talk about burning video dvds and that can mean completely different things.

You can copy a video file (avi, mpeg, wmv etc) on to a dvd blank as a data dvd. All you have done is copied the file. You can use progs like Deepburner and WMP for doing this.

To make a proper video dvd like what you rent, you have to author the dvd which turns the video files into vob files plus you have to add the dvd navigation. For doing this you need an authoring program. You can use a complete prog like Sonic MyDVD or a combination such as TMPGEnc + Nero.

You still have not provided any information on the format/codec of the video. It's really pointless continuing without that. To tell if it's an avi, the file extension is avi. That GSpot prog will provide a lot of additional info.

Starman*
 
actually I don't really have any particular video that I'm burning, It was just any videos that I had tried to burn, but I bet with all this information that I've got over the last week, that it should come out good next time I get on my computer and try to burn a dvd.
 
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