[minimustangs]

I have several Mini-DV tapes of various functions I've attended, and am having a heck of a time getting a good quality DVD-DL disk.

I know how to capture and render video off my camcorder, no problems there whatsoever. I have no problem making DVD's, as long as the content fits on to a regular DVD-R, 4.7Gb disc. I've taken a crash course in the differences in burning to DVD-DL, yet following the directions I never seem to get a smooth playback. Both Video and audio is jumpy, and it acts like it's pausing.

I'm not even trying to complicate matters by putting the disk into a DVD player, I'm using the same drive I burnt the disk on. The image files I created of various events of course plays fine as a file on my system. Single layer DVD's play flawlessly.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Is there a tutorial on burning Dual Layer disks? I've set the break cell, the layer break, whatever it's called. Using various pieces of S/W

DVDStyler, IMGBurn, and a couple of freeware utilties I found scouring the 'net for a solution.

[System is more than up to the task... Intel 2.6 G/hz, P4, 2Gb RAM, 250, 320 and 80 Gb HDDs. Xp Pro, SP3.]

Thanks for the read...

S~

[midders]

Verbatim is the ONLY brand of DL media that CDFreaks recommends; the rest just aren't reliable. Use ImgBurn for writing as this deals with the layer break properly.

Otherwise:
What applications are you using to convert your DV source to DVD Video format?
Before burning, do the DVD Video files on the PC play smoothly (use VLC player)?

Slainte

midders

[minimustangs]

If the DVD I was creating was a regular 4.7G single layer disk, I wouldn't be having these problems, the file plays perfectly, no sync issues, no issues of any kind. If I make a smaller DVD.. putting less clips on each disk, it will burn fine, and playback fine.

For burning to dual layer, Ive tried IMGBURN, and have been told that is a good choice. It seems to be the consensus is to go back and buy some Verbatims before attempting again.