I recently acquired a set of DVDs of "Incredible Hulk" and "Green Acres" from different people. All of these DVDs skip (I don't know what else to call it), meaning... every so many minutes the film slows for a second. What is this called? Does anyone know? It's tough for me, a DVD newbie, to explain this to fellow traders. The folks I got these from never mentioned this in our deal, so maybe this is just typical of homemade DVDs.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Anyone out there with a DVD burner that can help me out with this question? Grapejelly?

Thanks!

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I am probably not going to be much help, but I'll try. Before I bought DVD-r's, I did a lot of research to find out the best brand to use. I read a lot of horror stories about 'no name brand' DVD-r's. They are really cheap (mostly seen on ebay), but I heard they don't play back very well in a different machines. So, I am not sure if that is the problem. Are the DVD's you received a brand name? I think these are just like VHS, some brands are good, some not so good. It took me about a month to finally pick what brand I wanted to use. I spent a lot of time at this site here:

http://forums.afterdawn.com/

They have a DVD-R media message board. People dicuss the good and bad there. It was really helpful to me.

Good Luck! :)

I'm no expert on this but try playing the discs on another player of a different brand. They may play fine on another.

See also this yahoo group for more info http://groups.yahoo.com/group/standalonedvd/

Originally posted by videotrading
I am probably not going to be much help, but I'll try. Before I bought DVD-r's, I did a lot of research to find out the best brand to use. I read a lot of horror stories about 'no name brand' DVD-r's. They are really cheap (mostly seen on ebay), but I heard they don't play back very well in a different machines. So, I am not sure if that is the problem. Are the DVD's you received a brand name? I think these are just like VHS, some brands are good, some not so good. It took me about a month to finally pick what brand I wanted to use. I spent a lot of time at this site here:

http://forums.afterdawn.com/

They have a DVD-R media message board. People dicuss the good and bad there. It was really helpful to me.

Good Luck! :)

I went there and posted my question. Rather than be a help, I was treated like I was doing something illegal. I don't think I'm going to get much help there.

Originally posted by orko
I'm no expert on this but try playing the discs on another player of a different brand. They may play fine on another.

See also this yahoo group for more info http://groups.yahoo.com/group/standalonedvd/

Thanks! I'll definitely check the posts out before getting a DVD burner.

There can be many reasons why your dvdr is skipping. First media some players dont like certain media. Especially cheaper media like princo. Also if the dvdr was burnt at 4x it might harder for your player to read than a dvdr burnt at 1x Also check if your dvd player is compatible with dvdrs.

For more help try http://www.dvdrhelp.com/ By far the best information site on the planet.

Originally posted by NzoMatrix
There can be many reasons why your dvdr is skipping. First media some players dont like certain media. Especially cheaper media like princo. Also if the dvdr was burnt at 4x it might harder for your player to read than a dvdr burnt at 1x Also check if your dvd player is compatible with dvdrs.

For more help try http://www.dvdrhelp.com/ By far the best information site on the planet.

We bought the cheapest DVD player (Mintek 1600) we could find so that is more than likely the problem, though when I checked the chart on http://www.dvdrhelp.com it's supposed to be capatible. My player plays VCDs all right.

Thanks so much for taking the time to answer my question. I really appreciate it.

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