Freezing on chapter change

[Seasider]

Having successfully downloaded and installed Toast 8, I've found that the DVDs I have burned are freezing each time they reach a chapter change; sometimes slightly, sometimes completely. This happens when I play them bck on the MAc but also on my home DVD player.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks

[luciano]

Hi there Digital Guru!!!

thanks for the reply.

When reencoding is selected as 'automatic' it starts multiplexing automatically. Then if i select 'always' it reencodes and it takes ages until the DVD is ready to burn. If i select 'never' it starts multiplexing automatically. I have tried both multiplexing and reencoding and again it plays great on my computer but on my DVD player it freezes slightly between each scene shown, sometimes you have the impression the picture is going forward (as if jumping from scene to scene so slightly that your eyes won't realise it if you don't look carefully).

Don't know what to do!! My DVD player is about 4 years old.

Thanks again!

[tsantee]

Hi there Digital Guru!!!

thanks for the reply.

When reencoding is selected as 'automatic' it starts multiplexing automatically. Then if i select 'always' it reencodes and it takes ages until the DVD is ready to burn. If i select 'never' it starts multiplexing automatically. I have tried both multiplexing and reencoding and again it plays great on my computer but on my DVD player it freezes slightly between each scene shown, sometimes you have the impression the picture is going forward (as if jumping from scene to scene so slightly that your eyes won't realise it if you don't look carefully).

Don't know what to do!! My DVD player is about 4 years old.

Thanks again!

I'm unsure of what the problem may be. It could be that the player is having trouble decoding the MPEG audio that EyeTV creates. MPEG audio is not standard for video DVD but most players work with it. But I think Toast re-encodes the audio to AC-3 when you choose to have it re-encode the video. Maybe your player needs cleaning. Give a laser cleaning disc a try. I suggest trying the discs at on a friend's DVD players to help determine if this is more of a player issue than a disc issue.

 

Do you have an earlier version of Toast? If so you could try burning a disc with it and see if the results are the same.

[luciano]

hi there guys!!

I have encountered the same problem. I don't really think it is when a chapter is being changed, it happens to my DVD player all the time, the picture is freezing slightly constantly (the funny thing is that it doesn't happen on my Intel Duo iMac DVD player, the picture is great on my iMac DVD player!!). I have checked the compatibility of my DVD player and it says that it can read/play any DVD-R or DVD+R, i have tried both and can't record properly. Also i thought that burning at a lower speed (x2) would help and it didn't help at all. I have sent Roxio an email and they suggested the same: 'buy a good quality DVD-R'. I have spent a fortune with blank DVDs by all the major brands and it didn't help either. I'm trying to burn DVDs from EyeTV (the version of Tivo here in Europe) recordings. All the recordings i have done with eyetv are of great digital quality, can't really understand why this is happening!! Please help!!!!!!!

[tsantee]

hi there guys!!

I have encountered the same problem. I don't really think it is when a chapter is being changed, it happens to my DVD player all the time, the picture is freezing slightly constantly (the funny thing is that it doesn't happen on my Intel Duo iMac DVD player, the picture is great on my iMac DVD player!!). I have checked the compatibility of my DVD player and it says that it can read/play any DVD-R or DVD+R, i have tried both and can't record properly. Also i thought that burning at a lower speed (x2) would help and it didn't help at all. I have sent Roxio an email and they suggested the same: 'buy a good quality DVD-R'. I have spent a fortune with blank DVDs by all the major brands and it didn't help either. I'm trying to burn DVDs from EyeTV (the version of Tivo here in Europe) recordings. All the recordings i have done with eyetv are of great digital quality, can't really understand why this is happening!! Please help!!!!!!!

Is Toast re-encoding the EyeTV recordings or just multiplexing them before burning the DVD?

[luciano]

Hi there,

 

Yes i have tried on early versions of toast and i used to get the same problem. i've lent my DVD disc to a friend and she said she got the same thing (pictures slightly freezing) but her DVD is even older than mine. I might find a friend who got a new DVD player to see if it makes any difference. To be truthfull i have managed to record sucessfully once (out of so many DVD discs i have burnt) but i don't know what settting i have done at that time, i think it was with toast 7.1. Sometimes i think that it could be the channel from where i'm recording too, like this disc i managed to record was a programme i recorded from BBC4 (which the pictures is cristal clear, but all the other digital channels i have seem to be cristal clear too). I have tried to record another programme from BBC4 and the freezing scenes were there again. So i don't really know. Sometimes i think that it could be because i'm using a super drive CD/DVD burner (that most DVD player might not recognise), for this reason everytime i burn a disc i try to keep the speed as low as possible (x2).

Thanks, Luciano

[tsantee]

Is it at chapter change or at a title change? What settings are you using in Toast for playback (i.e. continuous play, automatic playback, scene menu)? Also, what brand of DVD media are you using?

[Seasider]

Is it at chapter change or at a title change? What settings are you using in Toast for playback (i.e. continuous play, automatic playback, scene menu)? Also, what brand of DVD media are you using?

 

Hi Eugene

 

At title change; I don't know a thing about settings - this is from a video-ts file, and I'm using Sony DVDs - which I know are good quality as I use them on my DVD recorder ...

[tsantee]

Hi Eugene

 

At title change; I don't know a thing about settings - this is from a video-ts file, and I'm using Sony DVDs - which I know are good quality as I use them on my DVD recorder ...

Thanks. I haven't come across this issue before. Please tell me more. Is the VIDEO_TS from the Sony DVD recorder? Were you just wanting to duplicate that disc? I'm guessing that you used the DVD video from VIDEO_TS setting in the Toast Video window. Was the VIDEO_TS on the hard drive or on a DVD?