|  | Posted by Rick Merrill on 11/17/05 23:15 
Serial # 19781010 wrote:> Ripped a film using my  usual process:
 > DVDshrink using deep analysis and AEC (smooth) and burned with Nero.
 > The compression was in the low 60 percent.
 >
 > Played disk on computer using PowerDVD 5. Motion was very rough,
 > jerky, and unnatural. Looked like it was dropping frames.
 >
 > Took the same disk and played it on my Pioneer stand alone player and
 > recorder, two different machines, and motion was nice and fluid and
 > natural - no problems.
 >
 > Anyway took the burned disk and made an image file of it (nrg) and
 > mounted it on a virtual Deamon Drive and then played it through
 > PowerDVD. Same poor motion. My conclusion is that it is not a hardware
 > problem.
 >
 > Do I need to update some code in windows or perhaps PowerDVD to clear
 > up this problem?
 >
 > After almost 400 burns this is the first time I noticed this
 > difference between playing on computer and on the stand alones and I
 > would like to be able to depend on the computer playback to give my an
 > accurate idea of how good my burns turn out.
 >
 > What do you think is the problem?
 
 The PC uses software to decode the MPEG2 on the DVD; the Pioneer is
 hardware and uses a hardware decoder. The two use slightly different
 renditions of MPEG.  I've seen really strange differences, but you
 don't usually see them the first viewing!
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