Nintaus N9868 owners - DVD mp3 help!

[NE1WeKnow]

Hi

I discovered (or perhaps read in the manual) that the player supported mp3 files on DVD.

For the most part, this works fine, however some tracks (several actually) will just stop during playback a few seconds in, or sometimes 1 minute into the track. The more you try to find out how many tracks do not playback properly, the more unstable the player becomes until you eventually have to power it off and power it back on to start again.

You can replicate the bad playbacks of certain tracks ad nauseum (i.e. its consistent).

It could be a media problem I guess, but I'm not sure. I have about 600 files on the disc. The structure of the disc is artist name (11 chars max as that's all that will fit on the TV display) and then a sub-dir underneath for each album (again, with max. 11 character names). I don't believe there is a file number limitation as the problem first occurs at about the 70 or 80 track mark and further on (from about 250 onwards) the playback seems to be ok for a fair while.

Any advice/ideas/experiences would be most welcome...

[jokiin]

have you noticed anything about the tracks that cause the player to hang, are they CBR, VBR, high bitrate etc?

[NE1WeKnow]

Hi

All tracks are CBR 192kbps.

There might actually be a problem with the burn I think. I have a spindle of Ritek G04 white inkjet printable discs and they burn fine and verify 100% ok and read speed tests all look good. Only thing is that I put the burnt disc in another burner/reader and it acts like there are CRC errors on the disc. Also my player has paused playback in a couple of spots on movies I burnt onto these discs.

This particular disc with the mp3s on it had segments which couldn't be read in a DVD-ROM drive here at work.

I will do another burn tonight and report back...

[jokiin]

You might want to try burning at a slower speed on those discs, sometimes this will help if there are issues with the media itself.

[NE1WeKnow]

You might want to try burning at a slower speed on those discs, sometimes this will help if there are issues with the media itself.
Thanks for the suggestion. The mp3 compilation dvd read ok in a mate's dvd burner drive. A new burn of the compilation onto a Verbatim DVD-RW did not bring about any of the reading problems in my Nintaus player. This is all very frustrating... I will definitely try the slower burning speed when I make another copy of the disc...

[jokiin]

Possibly another brand of discs will give better results also.