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Question

DVD burning, complete newbie

Jul 31, 2015 6:53AM PDT

Hello! I am a completely new to DVD making, and just burned my first DVD with no success
The beginning of the movie is completely messed up, the sound is right but the images are all over the place , choppy and lost the whole beginning of the movie, it starts at a weird spot for the first 5 minutes.
If I am on PC and skip a bit it will go back to normal, but if i don't touch it the images will stay messed up

Second thing is when i put the dvd on pc it still has space left, while when i put a working dvd in it appears full even if the full capacity is not used

-Do you have a reliable software i could use?
-What extra steps do I have to do after I have converted my movie into the video_ts format?
-Do I need to convert my movie into a specific format before converting into dvd format?

Thanks for your time

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I am not sure what the issues are with...
Jul 31, 2015 10:58AM PDT

the beginning but what software are you using? With commercial dvd you may ran into the issue of copy protection. Of course I am not sure if this is the case here or something else. Did the file on the computer played ok?

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hello
Aug 2, 2015 1:37PM PDT

I have tried again with a different video an this time it bugs out in the middle
I'm using FreemakeVideoConverter and i'm starting tot thinkit is not very reliable Sad
The videos i burn are from the internet and not from a comm dvd so i don't think it has anything todo withprotection?

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In over a decade I never used a video_ts format
Aug 1, 2015 7:12AM PDT

But over a decade ago I did handcraft a Video DVD for nothing more than sport and to learn. Since then I use tools like Video Editors and Video DVD creators. Anyone that wants to handcraft will blow up many times since it's very hard work with no one rushing to their aid. They will be very upset as replies tend to be "Google it."

Now what do I use? For Video DVD I use DVD FLICK which is free, has tutorials on the web.

Also since about last year I stopped making Video DVDs. Why? I found that my BluRay player would just play a video file if it's encoded in one of the many supported encodings. Why burn up my day encoding?

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hello
Aug 2, 2015 1:51PM PDT

Using DVD Flick, half the time myvideos cannot be added because they either have "no usable video track" or "no usable audio track", yet thevideo plays fine. I'm wonderingif it has anything to do with how I download the videos from Youtube ? I've been usng Freemake Video Converter before this, and it lets all the videos through, but the end result is faulty Sad

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I download the freemake and tried it.
Aug 3, 2015 1:45PM PDT

Seem like a nice program. I did some conversion and it came out alright. How do you do this, going from streaming to burn dvd in one operation...or download then convert then burn? Sound like you maybe doing a data burn rather than a dvd burn, that's why you can there are still space available If I understand you correctly. But that's not the cause of the problem. Here's a little tip, at least for me, I never multi-task when do video work.

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When DVD Flick coughs up that error
Aug 3, 2015 2:21PM PDT

I transcode it with HandBrake.

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Audio and video are not synchronized problem
Aug 6, 2015 3:40AM PDT

About Audio and video are not synchronized problem, I think the codec or framerate got some wrong. You should reset the video parameters in the settings. Not set original one.