Urgent! Burning DVDs

[Gore]

Hey, I have a video made by vegas I want to burn out to a DVD and show it on Friday. I've already wasted 3 DVDs because it lags on my DVD player, I used Nero. What am I doing wrong? Is Nero 7 **** or is the video too high defined?

Thank you.

[Orford]

what format is vegas putting out the file as. Are you converting to VOB/TIS ie DVD format in nero. The lag issue is probly due to nero encoding and burning on the fly if your PC isnt fast enough you will get stutter in the finished movie. Try turning all programs off and do nothing with the PC while its encoding to VOB?TIS Also if its buring as a AVI file ie DIVX or XVID and your DVD player supports this you may get stutter when alot of things are happening on screen due to the divx decoder chip in your standalone DVD player not being able to handle full screen motion decoding (which most cannot).

Best thing to do is encode the movie using a dedicated program then burn it either using the same program or nero once you have the finished VOB/TIS files.

I use converXtodvd as the name says it encodes almost all video files types to DVD ready to burn. adding menus, chapters, extra feature to the finished DVD. It also will keep the surround sound 5.1, 7.1, 8.1 depending on what you set it to.

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Or try a free HD encoding software which will convert most video files to PS3 xbox palm mobiles and the iPod range. not sure it converts to DVD format though but its a handy FREE program for putting films on your devices. Only thing then is taking your PS3 or using the video out of the mobile device to get it on screen where ever your traveling to when showing the film.

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In summery a combination of NERO and slow encoding from your PC = stutter doing it one step at a time will help. encode - Burn at slow speed.

[Gore]

I used the converter and it worked well, no more lag in sound but there's still lag in some parts of the video. Weird is that the parts that has some lag on Youtube and even when playing the file on my computer, doesn't lag at all in the DVD player? While the parts that doesn't lag on the computer lags on the DVD...

Thank you very much for the help bro.

[Orford]

Ok next thing to try is when the converter is running. control+alt+delete to get task manager up. go to processes and find the convert in there. right click it and set afinity to all cores of your CPU and set priority to above adverage. then click convert on the converter and DO NOT TOUCH YOUR PC UNTILL ITS DONE no mouse or keyboard. This should make the converter the main user of your CPU to do the encoding. also close any programs you arnt using beofre doing the above.

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on your PC are you using windows media player to watch it back.

Try using VLC player its free and decodes movie files for playing alot better and smoother than WMP colours tend to look shaper too in VLC not bad for a freebie. Thats if you dont use it already.

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I checked out your youtube what video are you having issues with.

[Gore]

No luck. Is there a recommended filetype to render in for DVD players? Maybe fiddle a little with framerates? E.G. 29.970 NTSC, 30.000, 25.000 PAL, and since PAL is common for European DVDs and TVs maybe it could have a say (I set the converter to PAL when installing though).

It lags on both VLC and WMP11. It's this video:

Here and on the media players it lags from 2:32 to 2:52. On DVD it lags from 2:52 to 3:27 and again from 5:01 to the end. (Stops lagging when it starts to fade out)

[Orford]

I would say lower the quality of the origanal in vegas your PC is struggling to encode all that high quality film fast enough. as for the different from TV and PC playback its all to do with the different way your PC plays back full colour moving images alot of data and your DVD/Tv handles high detail moving dark images they are made for full screen moving coulor images and dont do blacks very well.. have a look at this TV one of its selling points it being able to handle true black images and not make them all blocky and compressed looking.

http://www.lcdtvreviews.org.uk/lcd-tvs- ... tv-review/

Also search http://www.dvdrhelp.com very good DVD authering help site.

[Gore]

Thank you very much for your advice on this, *NwA*Orford. It's much better than before.