Jitter in video tranferred to DVD

[Fishordie]

Looking for some help. Here's my set up. I have a Dell Dimension E510 and have succesfully transferred programs off of my Series 2 Tivo and have succesfully burned them to DVD by first using Direct Show Dump and then using Media Center to burn the file created by DSD to DVD.

My first problem is that I have created a lot of coasters in the process using both Imation and Philips DVD +Rs. Its always a crap shoot on whether Media Center will encounter an error and kick the DVD out in the burning process. The error message from Media Center just says, creation failed. I was successful about 50% of the time.

Now a whole new problem is occurring, jitter in the video of all transferred files. It's odd because the jitter is not in the file that comes out of DSD, those seem fine. It's only in the DVD. Also odd is that I don't seem to be making coasters anymore just unusable jittery videos. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[WayneCarter]

There's another bad actor in the mix - the DVD player. DVD players are designed to play commercial ("pressed") DVDs. Usr-programmed DVDs are kinda' sorta' like pressed DVDs but are really quite different. DVD players vary widely in how well they play burned DVDs.

Try ...
Playing the disk several times, does it look the same every time? (If the "jitters" change it is a playback issue(
Try playing the DVD on your computer (PC/Mac DVD drives are designed to read burned disks)
Try different brands of media (some DVD players "prefer" certain disks)
Try playing the disk on other players


Assuming the original disk is good (ie based on steps 1 and 2 above), you can just "Xerox" it to other brands of media for step 3.

[steve614]

Another thing to consider is the DVD drive you use to burn the DVDs.

I had a drive that burned the DVDs fine, but would not play in my DVD player.
These burned DVDs would play on my computer only because I was using the drive that burned them. (I figured the optics must've gone out of whack)

When I replaced the DVD burner drive, my problems went away.

[Fishordie]

Thanks for the tips. Yes I have tried another DVD drive with the same results. Also the jitter is apparent no matter where it's played, PC, DVD player. It almost seems as if the problem is in the output of Direct Show Dump. However, the files play fine before burning to DVD.

Also, it appears the problem only happens with videos transferred from my TIVO. Other .wmv files burn fine.

[WayneCarter]

Other .wmv files burn fine.WMV? What does this have to do with WMV? How are you burning these WMVs?

[Fishordie]

My fault, my problem has been with the files coming out of DSD which I know aren't wmv files.

But I have no problem burning .wmv files through Media Center onto DVD.

[dlfl]

Try VideoReDo (www.videoredo.com) instead of DSD, to convert your TiVo's to .mpg. You can free-trial it uncrippled for 15 days provided you register for the free trial after installing. Load the .tivo into VRD then perform Quick Stream Fix on it, saving as .mpg. It cleans up mpegs and will frequently prevent problems that occur with DSD conversions. VRD has many capabilities beyond just this function and it can by automated via VBScripts and its COM interface.

[Fishordie]

Thanks for the tips. I tried videoredo and got the same jitter in the video. Maybe I need to try and burn it with something other than media center. What burns me is that media center was working 50% or more of the time without the jitter for these same files coming off tivo and then one day "boom" I have jitter in all video coming off the tivo.