Trouble Burning AVI Files to CD-R

[FireStarter2003]

Hi y'all,

I've been having some trouble lately with trying to burn AVI files to CD-R. What ends up happening is that after I burn the disc, when I try to play it on my laptop, the video display will be fine, but the sound and speech is distorted and jumpy. I've tried playing the disc on other people's comps, and the sound is fine, but the screen will not show. Can somebody offer me some assistance? I would greatly appreciate it.

[Ashley]

Moved to tech forum.

[shooraijin]

How fast are the CD-ROMs in question? What compression method did you use to make the AVI?

[FireStarter2003]

The CD-Rs are recordable up to 48x, but my DVD-CDRW drive goes up to 8x. Also, I didn't make the AVIs, I have downloaded them. In trying to record the disc, I tried to place four episodes on the disc, about 650 MB total. I hope this helps a bit.

[shooraijin]

I think the problem is one of two things: a) a compression method that isn't friendly to the sequential nature of CD-ROMs or requires ... b) bandwidth not adequately supplied by an 8x CD-ROM.

You can make sure that it was burned correctly very simply -- copy it from the CD back to your computer. If that copy plays correctly from your hard disk, then your problem is obvious; your CD-ROM drive is just not up to the task. If it doesn't play right even from the hard disk, then it probably was indeed burned incorrectly.

EDIT: I should say I wanted to know the *read* speed of your CD-ROM drive, not the *burn* speed, but that's the only one you gave me. All this information is of course contingent on the fact the AVI played correctly in the first place.

[ShiroiHikari]

That bit with the sound working but the picture being blank sounds like a Divx problem to me...Your friends probably don't have the Divx codec ^_^; Does the AVI work when you play it from your hard drive?

[Mithrandir]

I don't know SH... It looks like it plays fine on his computer, but not theirs... Hmm. I'll add my question to the "What happens when you copy it back to the HD and try to play it?" crowd.

Oh and shooby, when I read that, I thought you actually asked for the burn speed of the CDs, not the drives.

OldPhil: O.o