Jumpy DVD output

[drg821]

After transferring Tivo files over the network everything works fine in the player, but once I transfer to DVD, video doesn't play smoothly and is quite jerky. No problems with audio. Is there some setting I should change for smoother playback?

[drg821]

Yes. Playback is fine in Apple's DVD player, but bad on two different DVD players.

[freshburn]

Bad media. I suggest trying a better brand and slowing down the burn.

[cnsayre]

It's the media and the DVD Player. If it works fine in one player or the Mac DVD Player and doesn't work on another, it's the media and player combination. Use Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim media. Anything else could cause problems. Also, 16x media may not work on some DVD Players because the reflectivity is different.

 

Nope. I'm 100% positive now it's an encoding bug in Toast 8, at least for some DVD players.

 

Here's what has been done to prove it's a bug in Toast 8:

 

Same media that's been used by Toast 7 in the past and played on the now-jerky-playing DVD player (DVD-RW, just for the record)

 

I'm using the same TV shows (One is "Heroes" and one is "30 Minute Meals", again, just for the record).

 

I had to export them, obviously, to use them outside of Toast, but I used the exported video in both test burns. "30 Minute Meals" was saved as an MP4. "Heroes" was saved as a(n) AVI file (processed with ffmepgx).

 

Both of these "non-native Tivo" formats were used in both test burns. We now have the same media, the same TV shows. The difference was encoding. One test was Toast 8. The result: Jerky video.

 

I encoded the DVD with iDVD, using the same media and the same video files. The result: smooth playing video.

 

It's now rather apparent to me that there's a bug in the encoding. While it may play smoothly on some (most?) DVD players, there are apparently a few (our problem machine is a JVC one) that have issues with the way Toast is encoding the video.

[freshburn]

Is the playback OK on the Mac DVD Player?

[dwbowers]

I am experiencing the same jerky playback in my DVD player. It's especially noticeable if something is moving across the screen. It's as if there's a dropped frame or two every second or so. It's very annoying. I am burning on the 'best' setting.

[RZ500]

I have the same problem with a G4 Aluminium, but not on the DVD, from the first transfer, I test de Video file and the video is like in 2X speed, any idea how to fix this?

[dafly]

Has anyone noticed that the jumpy video also happens with the TiVo Video Player? Is there a way to fix that? (MackBook Pro Intel). Just set up Toast 8 today.

[Brian Palmer]

I would try changing the output to progressive if it's interlaced or vice versa. See if it makes a difference.

 

Brian Palmer

[cnsayre]

Bad media. I suggest trying a better brand and slowing down the burn.

 

I respectively disagree with this assessment. I've been experiencing the same phenomenon and have been tinkering with it.

 

I've tried different burn speeds with the same result ("jerky" video playback on my DVD player on the TV. It's hard to explain, but it's like a jerk every second or so).

 

I've tried different media with the same result.

 

I'm in the process of trying a different burner (I set it to burn right before leaving for work today).

 

I did try a "jerky" dvd in a different DVD player. In my other DVD player (the one we don't use that often), the DVD worked just fine.

 

Thus far, it appears to be a combination of one DVD player (the one we usually watch DVD's on) and Toast 8. If the DVD video is still jerky with the other DVD burner, then I'll try burning a video in Toast 7, just to verify.

 

With all of that said, videos burned to DVD in Toast 7 worked just fine previously. I'm beginning to think that it's an issue with Toast 8's conversion/burning, but don't have enough data to say that without a doubt yet.

[freshburn]

It's the media and the DVD Player. If it works fine in one player or the Mac DVD Player and doesn't work on another, it's the media and player combination. Use Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim media. Anything else could cause problems. Also, 16x media may not work on some DVD Players because the reflectivity is different.

[RZ500]

I do not why, but it only happend with the intro videos from Tivo, the rest is OK, so far.

[higgis]

I have exactly the same issue - DVD plays fine on newer DVD players, but is jumpy on my older DVD player. Has anyone had any success in diagnosing this further.

 

I'm using Toast 8.0.1 - set to 'Best Quality'.

 

Just to be clear, I'm on an Intel MacBook Pro (2.33 GHz, 2GB RAM) running OS X 10.4.9

[MacGoddess]

I see this thread is a little old, but for me it is nice to see I am not the only one experience jerkiness in video after burning to DVD with Toast 8, 9 or Popcorn 3. My Mac DVD Player shows slight jerkiness but not as much as when played on the Panasonic DVR. I have an older Toshiba DVD player and it is even stranger. I don't notice jerkiness but the picture is broken in half like a mirror with duplicate video playing side by side.

 

I wish I could find another way to burn my TiVo shows to DVD. I guess I could have just bought a recordable DVD player and send the TiVo shows directly to that instead of a VCR, but I thought it would be nicer to be able to edit the videos in Toast 9.