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Posted by Franc Zabkar on 04/28/06 02:28
On 25 Apr 2006 08:58:40 -0700, duffytweedy@gmail.com put finger to
keyboard and composed:
>A few weeks ago I bought a Panasonic DMR-ES10 recorder, and have been
>moving my VHS home movies onto DVD-R steadily. Most of the DVDs I've
>recorded work fine everywhere, but not always. Sometimes the DVD plays
>fine in every home deck I try it in, but crashes every computer DVD
>player I try it in, Windows or Mac. It'll start playing but then
>freeze the program within five minutes, and I get messages like "DVD
>Player has encountered a problem. The disk may be dirty or damaged.
>The program will now close" or, "Media Player has encountered an error
>and will now close". My main reason for wanting to be able to read
>DVDs on my computer is to easily burn copies, but I'm also concerned in
>general about the DVDs I'm recording. I'm using the highest quality
>Taiyo Yuden DVD-R disks, by the way. Are computer DVD drives just
>more sensitive and picky than home players?
>
>One particular tape is causing me headaches. I have an old, cheap VHS
>tape that's a copy of an old, cheap VHS tape that was itself recorded
>from 1960s Super8 tape. So my VHS looks and sounds pretty bad. I've
>tried several times to record it to DVD, and each time it plays in
>decks but not on any computer. Odd coincidence? Or, and here I may be
>sounding dumb, could there be source material (crummy VHS) that is so
>poor that the DVD recorded from it is loopy and it giving sensitive DVD
>drives fits? Can the quality of the source possibly matter?
Rather than attempting to *play* your DVD-R, I'd copy the files to a
directory on your PC HDD. Then I'd compare them byte-for-byte with the
originals. In this way you could eliminate any issues relating to
codecs, artifacts, etc.
I'm still using Win98SE, so I'd compare the files from a DOS box using
the following command line:
fc /b HD-folder\HD_files DVD-folder\DVD_files
- Franc Zabkar
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