12-15-2005, 05:04 AM
An individual at work was able to get the AV Dept to copy an old 16mm film onto a digital DVD format. When playing the film on all the latest computer DVD players in computers (Mac & PC) or on a commercial DVD player, the playback is just really jerky. Sometimes the video just freezes. Sometimes, if you select pause then play, you will see a frozen pane of where the video is currently at. The audio however is just fine. I knew there was issues with playback of DVD+R formats in the past (which this DVD is), but figured newer computers should deal with the format just fine.
I brought the file home and dragged the VIDEO_TS file down to the harddrive of my MacMini. Then I burned it back using Toast 7 to a DVD FROM VIDEO_TS. The performance is unchanged during playback.
Thoughts of what happened here? Can it be saved? Or does AV Dept have to try again. AV Dept says the file plays fine with their equipment. She did say something about having older DVD+R equipment? I would be surprised if they didn't have the latest and greatest encoding and burning equipment.
Apparently the software she used was quite old? Maybe just a corrupt file of Video_TS was created? I don't know. She said it was an old DVD+R machine.
I brought the file home and dragged the VIDEO_TS file down to the harddrive of my MacMini. Then I burned it back using Toast 7 to a DVD FROM VIDEO_TS. The performance is unchanged during playback.
Thoughts of what happened here? Can it be saved? Or does AV Dept have to try again. AV Dept says the file plays fine with their equipment. She did say something about having older DVD+R equipment? I would be surprised if they didn't have the latest and greatest encoding and burning equipment.
Apparently the software she used was quite old? Maybe just a corrupt file of Video_TS was created? I don't know. She said it was an old DVD+R machine.