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freebird134 - Nov 2, 2005 - 10:27 am
Hi,
I'm trying to back up all my DVDs. Most are just fine, others have problems when I try to play them on my TV. The audio is good, but the video seems to pause and then jump to where it should be every 2-3 seconds. It is super annoying. Any suggestions.
I am using "Mac the ripper" to extract and "popcorn" to compress and burn. I am not very experienced with either program, so I may just have settings wrong?
Thank you VERY much
I'm trying to back up all my DVDs. Most are just fine, others have problems when I try to play them on my TV. The audio is good, but the video seems to pause and then jump to where it should be every 2-3 seconds. It is super annoying. Any suggestions.
I am using "Mac the ripper" to extract and "popcorn" to compress and burn. I am not very experienced with either program, so I may just have settings wrong?
Thank you VERY much
philippe99 - Nov 2, 2005 - 2:08 pm
Brandon, welcome to macosx.com
Choppy videos can be due to many factors: home dvd player too slow to decode videos, "not so good" media
As a test, for one movie you find choppy on your home dvd player, could try to perform (1) a full disc extraction in MTR and (2) suppress every bonus, subtitles, foreign languages (if any) in Popcorn - so supress them in PopCorn but not in MTR -, so to only keep the main film.
That's my method: full extraction MTR than "tune" the stuffs to be burned into Popcorn.
Is this better ?
Regards
Philippe
Choppy videos can be due to many factors: home dvd player too slow to decode videos, "not so good" media
As a test, for one movie you find choppy on your home dvd player, could try to perform (1) a full disc extraction in MTR and (2) suppress every bonus, subtitles, foreign languages (if any) in Popcorn - so supress them in PopCorn but not in MTR -, so to only keep the main film.
That's my method: full extraction MTR than "tune" the stuffs to be burned into Popcorn.
Is this better ?
Regards
Philippe
freebird134 - Nov 2, 2005 - 11:07 pm
Thanks Philippe,
I tried the DVD that wouldn't work right in my DVD player on a friends DVD player--and it worked fine. So, obviously my DVD player must be slower/older/crappier than my friends.
Would burning only the main feature solve the problem for my slow dvd player?
Thank you very much (again)
Brandon
I tried the DVD that wouldn't work right in my DVD player on a friends DVD player--and it worked fine. So, obviously my DVD player must be slower/older/crappier than my friends.
Would burning only the main feature solve the problem for my slow dvd player?
Thank you very much (again)
Brandon
philippe99 - Nov 3, 2005 - 6:26 am
Yes, sometimes, because in this case Popcorn has to choose a lower compression rate..and sometimes, does not compress at all.
I face this with for instance, MatrixReloaded: keeping the file + english/french soundtracks + english/french subtitles leads to a 26-30% of compression in PopCorn.
On my home DVD player, speedy scenes were choppy.
I made a new DVD while keeping on the film with the french soundtrack; Popcorn compression drops to 5%; and the film is not longer choppy in speedy scenes.
My rule is: if PopCorn compress for less than 10%, and if the film is still choppy, yes, the player is a crap one.
What you can also do is cleaning the lens of the player with a CD lens cleaner, you know the one we use for cleaning the lens of the car cd player. Perhaps this will help.
Philippe
I face this with for instance, MatrixReloaded: keeping the file + english/french soundtracks + english/french subtitles leads to a 26-30% of compression in PopCorn.
On my home DVD player, speedy scenes were choppy.
I made a new DVD while keeping on the film with the french soundtrack; Popcorn compression drops to 5%; and the film is not longer choppy in speedy scenes.
My rule is: if PopCorn compress for less than 10%, and if the film is still choppy, yes, the player is a crap one.
What you can also do is cleaning the lens of the player with a CD lens cleaner, you know the one we use for cleaning the lens of the car cd player. Perhaps this will help.
Philippe
freebird134 - Nov 3, 2005 - 7:39 am
Thank you very much.
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