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Bad DVD movie performance with PS2

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I just converted a movie into DVD format and buned it to a disc. I had origionally planned to watch it using my PS2, but when I try to play the movie, I get horrible performance. It's like the movie will play for five seconds, stall for 5 seconds, then play the next 5 seconds, then stall some more and so on...

After that, I tried playing it with my computer. This worked flawlessly, so I thought "maybe it's running fine because my computer has space-age hardware compared to the PS2", so I tried it in the DVD player in the living room. It fired right up, no trouble... played just as well as it did on my PC.

Just for kicks, I tried another movie I had burner earlier in the PS2 and it worked fine. I tried putting the one in question back in and it ran just as previously described.

What's up doc?
 
try reburning the 1st movie to a different disk?


is there any security on the disk?


is there any differece in file types ect between that disk and the 2nd disk.
 
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I've had problems with my PS2 and burned DVD's in the past. I never found a solution, I just figured it was just the unit and not the disc.
 
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Figure out what RPM setting the PS2 is on, there's a stock setting and something like a "high" setting on the newer ones at least. I've found that sometimes helps make games run a bit smoother too.
 
Radical_Edward said:
Figure out what RPM setting the PS2 is on, there's a stock setting and something like a "high" setting on the newer ones at least. I've found that sometimes helps make games run a bit smoother too.
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FACT. i also have a PS2 DVD software disk. that has updates to the PS2's DVD software. supposed to help compatability or something. alas unless you have a gen 1 console this type of thing would be of no use as it was automattically upgraded in the latest PS2's you can still however find the disk sold at local stores.
 
I'll try to snap some photos on how to set it up here in a bit... (I'll be doing it on one of the newer PS2 "flatline" or "slimline".)
 
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I have one of the first PS2 models that ever came out, lol. The serial number says "U7695568".

The only difference between the two movies is that the first movie (the one with bad performance) was converted into DVD format using ConvertXtoDVD, and the other was converted with DVDVideoSoft FreeStudio. I find that ConvertXtoDVD is much better, except for this, heh... FreeStudio's conversion took like 10GB while ConvertXtoDVD's conversion remained under 4, heh
 
are you burning on a dual-layer disc? try a standard dvd-r and see if that helps
 
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I've never used a dual layer, lol. I have DVD+Rs. Both discs are the same type, from the same stack of DVDs I believe..
 
Okay, for those with the update that allows them to adjust the speed, this is how you do it. (56K, prepare to be owned.)

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Press Triangle at this screen.

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Scroll to PS2 driver, and Press Triangle again.

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Press X on "Disc speed"

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Press X on "Fast"

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And your done! Press O to go back to the main screen, and play your game, DVD, etc.

As for the Texture mapping setting, don't use this unless it's an older game, like Kingdom Hearts 1 or something, change it to smooth and it'll "look" better.
 
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we see your ps2's mac address

i wouldn't worry tho... dont think anyone would bother with it lol
 
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Don't care, It's never been connected to the net, never will.

Screw it, I edited it out, it'll not be there in a few minutes. Update the pic faster photobucket! Jeez!
 
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Pic of RE's PS2's MAC address saved before the edit. :nutkick: I don't think anyone can do anything with a MAC address, they can be changed on most routers and NICS through windows... so technically you could have two devices with the same MAC address if you changed something, heh

I changed the speed from standard to fast, didn't help my movie at all. Also, I read that changing the texture mapping from standard to smooth would render ps1 games properly, but it still doesn't. I recall in Final Fantasy 7, the sprites would be rendered with these black shadow boxes around them, and the background image would have like these small transparent dark grey grid dots... this still existed when I changed it to smooth mode.
 
hat said:
Pic of RE's PS2's MAC address saved before the edit. :nutkick:
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:rolleyes:

hat said:
I changed the speed from standard to fast, didn't help my movie at all. Also, I read that changing the texture mapping from standard to smooth would render ps1 games properly, but it still doesn't. I recall in Final Fantasy 7, the sprites would be rendered with these black shadow boxes around them, and the background image would have like these small transparent dark grey grid dots... this still existed when I changed it to smooth mode.
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Strange, works well for me. What gen is yours again?
 
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It's one of the old bulky models. I posted the serial number earlier if you want to take a look at that.
 
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It's one of the old bulky models. I posted the serial number earlier if you want to take a look at that.
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model number is what we need. i think it begins with a U
it will be 1000 2000 3000 or 9000 i bealive.
 
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It's one of the old bulky models. I posted the serial number earlier if you want to take a look at that.
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If it's one of the older models the issue might be it simply can't handle a "high" quality movie. The older models had worse specs and it's likely it simply doesn't have good enough hardware to handle it.
 
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I am sure i read somewere that if your burning dvd's to play on a ps2 then its best to burn them at the slowest speed possible. Might be worth a try inless you have already done it :D.
 
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Model No: SCPH-39001

I burned at 4x. Resolution was 720x480.

So you're saying a PS2 can't handle a high quality movie, but a DVD player can? You'd think the PS2 had more oomph than a DVD player... heh
 
It depends. If that's one of the first PS2's it's not a big surprise. If the DVD player is newer, it could easily be better than the PS2. But as I don't know the specs for either, I'm basically talking nonsense. (Time to go to bed! ;))
 
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PS2 has the worst DVD player built into it, I know from 3 experience's:laugh: (3 PS2's)
 
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Radical_Edward said:
It depends. If that's one of the first PS2's it's not a big surprise. If the DVD player is newer, it could easily be better than the PS2. But as I don't know the specs for either, I'm basically talking nonsense. (Time to go to bed! ;))
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You would think a piece of hardware that can run video games could play a DVD, heh. Apparantly not :banghead:
 
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