Sound Lagging while Burning DVDs

[tkcomer]

Hey all. Back again. I bought a DVD burner. A Sony DRU-810A that came with Nero 6.6. I can save the movie to my hard drive, throw out all the extras, and I end up with 4 files that are the actual movie. When I burn this to a DVD+RW, the first file burns fine but the sound lags on the other three files. The movie that is on the hard drive plays perfectly, but the sound lags on the last 3 files on the DVD disc and quite noticeably. Any idea what I’m doing wrong? I tried slowing down the burn speed but nothing changed. I’ve tried this with 2 movies and the exact same thing happened on both. If I format the disc as a data disc and drag the files over, they play fine. But that won’t play in any DVD player. Even in my computer, it only plays one file at a time, it won’t index from one to the other when it is a data disc. Any help would be appreciated.

[kdown]

Looks like a common problem, maybe this will help

This is a common problem. Windows Player can read the header data and work out the delay. There are a few solutions offered in the forum section of videohelp.com. I am currently demuxing the file before I burn it to DVD and this solves the problem there is a surprising amount of freeware available for this.

[Chuck]

If that don't work you might need to up your memory for burning. You PC could be cycle locking while burning. A good habit to get into is to shutdown all unneeded programs running in the system tray and don't use you PC while burning.

[Jeremy]

I find that when I rip and burn DVDs I not only need to get rid of the xtras, but I must compress the DVD a little bit more before burning. Using DVDShrink, it looks like the file will burn fine uncompressed, without compressing further, but the only successful burns I've had is when I actually do go that extra step. The resulting burn, I think, is of excellent quality eventhough it's compressed more. I also dump all the audio tracks but the main one, that might help as well. Normal DVDs are.. what? 7GB? There's a lot you have to get rid of to make them fit on a 4.7 GB disc.

[Jeremy]

Oh, and just dumping the files as data on a disc won't work because the burning process is different for data, dvd, audio, etc. The DVD player won't read it because it's not in the proper format. You can, however, set it up to play on your computer by making a playlist of the separate files. This way you won't have to play one, load one, play it, load another, etc.

[tkcomer]

Arrrg. All that reading made my head spin. I found a program called DVD-Shrink 3.2 that works. Quality of the movie is comparable to the original. In fact, I can’t tell he difference. I gave a movie to a friend (OK it was family) and it came back unplayable. It had a scratch in it. I don’t care how it happened, but when I loan a movie out, I want it to be a copy. This program works great. Thanks for the info. All is well right now. Thanks again. This gang is great.