[paddy2042]

I have recorded TV programmes with EYETV DTT and burn them with Toast 6 or 7 (I have two versions on two different computers). Everything goes fine until I try to play them back. The first half (approximately) of the disc plays perfectly fine, then slight pauses appear. These increase as the disc continues to play. Eventually sometimes the disc just stops.
What is very odd is that if I reinsert the disc and go to the approximate chapter that caused the problem it will often play perfectly but then again after a few minutes repeat the same pausing behaviour. In other words the pauses now appear in different spots on the disc!
The problem seems to happen mainly with movies and longer programmes: If I record several short programmes to disc the problem does not seem to appear.

Anyhone any ideas? I would appreciate it.

Patrick

[timwentford]

paddy2042, on Jan 10 2006, 02:27 PM, said:

I have recorded TV programmes with EYETV DTT and burn them with Toast 6 or 7 (I have two versions on two different computers). Everything goes fine until I try to play them back. The first half (approximately) of the disc plays perfectly fine, then slight pauses appear. These increase as the disc continues to play. Eventually sometimes the disc just stops.

I have the same combination and the same problem (or similar, one recording I made just jumps back to the beginning but I can get through it by fast-forwarding past the patchy bit) but I think it is caused by bad reception corrupting the Mpeg2 stream and the DVD player being intolerant to the corruptions. DTT and Toast don't look at the data stream so corrupted packets from reception glitches can get through (I believe).

Curiously this only happens on one of our DVD players and a friend's DVD player. Any problem disks play fine on my daughter's DVD player and (IIRC) my PC and Mac.

[tsantee]

Because of the large volume of crummy DVD media out there, my first suggestion is to try with a different brand of good-quality media.