If you do recordings often, do not forget to use a laser lens cleaning CD often to avoid recording errors. Last week I was getting pixelation on some DVDs I was burning, which were subsequently ruined. At first I thought it was a setup program, because I recently installed a new mobo and CPU. After trying everything, today I bought a cleaning CD and did a pass on the NEC burner. Gone are now the pixelations, fortunately, and the remedy was quite cheap. From now I will do periodical cleanings on my PC recorder/players and on my home DVD player.
while that may be good advise, but, pixelations, freezing, and skipping are mostly due to poor media....... just my 2 cents.
Not really. A poor media certainly will cause that, and I did return some media recently that did that. But the problems I had were not really due to bad media. To start with I use Sony DVD+R, which do quite well. For my tests I also use DVD+RW media, which also do quite well. My DVD collection, burnt at home, exceeds 250 records, so I think I got to learn quite a bit on recording. Much of them still is "try and see what happens", as too many variables are involved in doing home recordings. In spite of what I wrote to open this thread, I am still having problems with other films I am trying to burn. Most of them still showing some pixelation problems at the end, which should be the outer area in the DVD. The variables that are still a question mark to me are my new mobo+cpu combo and this program I have been using (ConvertXtoDVD). Just now I did have a look at a film I converted overnight, from PAL avi onto NTSC mpeg2 files, using Procoder 1.5 and I didn't get the pixelations I was getting at the end with ConvertXtoDVD. But I am still not sure what is happening.
anyway.... from my stand point....after doing over 1200 backups of DVDs I found that it was a media problem...... and Sony is a great disk! If it's the outer edge of the disk that is causeing the problems then don't burn more than 4384MB!~ that will give you a little room to the edge of the disk! I set most of my programs to that spec and everything works fine, which I only use Taiyo Yuden disks.
