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[btour]

I have one recorded to Sony discs that was slightly compressed and it skips in the start a little. I have one recorded to HP dual layer and it skips a lot towards the end. They are both +R.

Is it the disc quality that causes this skipping? The brand? Both were recorded at 4x. I looked for Verbatim at three stores, and could not find them.

Will what I have recorded serve as a good image to try to burn to another brand Even though it skips on playback on DVD player to TV? I would like to get his project off my hard drive.


Looks like I wasted a lot of money on these HP dual layer discs. They adveritsed as being great for DVD playback to TV.

[tsantee]

I can't say what the exact problem is with the skipping. It likely is a problem with the DVD player reading the discs. Have you tried playing them on a different DVD player or in your Mac?

I've found Verbatim media at Walmart.

Before you delete the files from your hard drive, test playing the DVDs on your Make and make sure you can extract the MPEGs from the burned DVDs using the Toast Media Browser. If that works out you can use those DVDs are sources for new discs.

[btour]

Thanks again Tsantee. There was a blizzard and I drove all around, but not to Walmart. Tried Staples, Circuit city and Kmart. Dual layer discs were not many at any of these. Of course, memorex was everywhere, and I know those don't work.

What is next in line for reliability, after Verbatim? Or even better than Verbatim? I am leaving soon for shopping. I will test on Mac and another player.

BTW, no matter what I tried I could not get the pal segment to convert. Toast kept promising to do it, but it stayed the same. I used .toast image. I used converted files. I deleted converted items. I tried redoing the orginal .avi files. Every time toast promised to convert and every time it stayed the same. Toast just went ahead and mulitplexed and wrote file. Maybe there is just a marker left saying it is Pal but it is actually ntsc. I have no idea. At this point I give up trying.

Yikes I just tried to see if I could extract the MPEG's are you suggested and realized I have no idea, and could not see how to do that. I was in media browser, but did not see that option. Could you walk me through that?

[tsantee]

Thanks again Tsantee. There was a blizzard and I drove all around, but not to Walmart. Tried Staples, Circuit city and Kmart. Dual layer discs were not many at any of these. Of course, memorex was everywhere, and I know those don't work.

What is next in line for reliability, after Verbatim? Or even better than Verbatim? I am leaving soon for shopping. I will test on Mac and another player.

For DL media Verbatim DVD+R DL is the best. For single-layer discs Taiyo Yuden are rated the best but I've never seen them except through mail order.

BTW, no matter what I tried I could not get the pal segment to convert. Toast kept promising to do it, but it stayed the same. I used .toast image. I used converted files. I deleted converted items. I tried redoing the orginal .avi files. Every time toast promised to convert and every time it stayed the same. Toast just went ahead and mulitplexed and wrote file. Maybe there is just a marker left saying it is Pal but it is actually ntsc. I have no idea. At this point I give up trying.

My tank is empty on this one, too.

Yikes I just tried to see if I could extract the MPEG's are you suggested and realized I have no idea, and could not see how to do that. I was in media browser, but did not see that option. Could you walk me through that?

Insert the DVD and choose DVD with the top button in the Media Browser. In a couple seconds the disc will appear in the lower window. Use the lower button to access the title and chapter levels of the DVD. Select titles (or chapters) in the window to drag to the Video window. Toast extracts the MPEGs and writes them to the converted items folder.

[btour]

Oh Yes I have seen those, with media browser files, and xml files. Can I then data copy those so I preserve disc in encoded format and all? I can't use those in quicktime. Have not tried vlc.

Toast does that without asking it to write a disc image?

What is the next best discs?