Blips in Copied Movies

[johnnymk]

A few movies I have copied freeze at unexpected moments and then revert to an earlier time (generally 4 or 5 chapters). The only way I can watch the rest of the movie is fast forward it to right after the freeze frame(s).

Is this bad media, bad original or something happened during the encoding or burning process...or unable to tell?

[shocky123]

I had a similar problem a couple years ago. I never did figure out what it was.
It seemed to be the quality of the image prior to burning, maybe something was corrupt in the file or something.. but as I said, never did figure it out. :(

~Kyle

[DarkFury]

Most likely it is the media...

However if you are not sure... try mounting the .ISO image and playing it with Daemon Tools to see that the copy is not corrupted there.

If it plays fine from the hard drive, then I'd definitely question the media it was burned to at that point.

[johnnymk]

Most likely it is the media...

However if you are not sure... try mounting the .ISO image and playing it with Daemon Tools to see that the copy is not corrupted there.

If it plays fine from the hard drive, then I'd definitely question the media it was burned to at that point.

Does Daemon automatically catch errors and report them or do I have to watch the entire movie?

[DarkFury]

Does Daemon automatically catch errors and report them or do I have to watch the entire movie?
go to the segment where it initially skipped on your disk and see if the "master" copy skips in the same place.

Daemon tools allows the saved hard drive ISO file of the movie to play just as if your had stuck the DVD disk in the player and hit play. All it does is make the hard drive image "mountable" so that the player of choice (in my case.. PowerDVD) can read the movie directly from your hard drive and play it on your computer.

Does the problem you were discussing happen on both the standalone player and on your computer DVD drive? If not... then maybe your standalone player is not 100% compatible with the media you have burned it to.. or maybe there is a scratch or imperfection on the disk that is making it skip. If the disk plays fine on PC but not on the standalone, then I'd have to say that the fault is with the standalone not being able to properly read the disk (i.e. maybe its laser is dirty or something).

If the problem happens on both... then try what I suggested before to determine whether or not you burned a coaster.