MPEG2 file from TiVo Converted to DVD Skipping

Hey,

I like to record movies and such on my TiVo and then burn the MPEG2 files to DVD (absolutely no transcoding, straight MPEG2 from DirecTV, I love it ;)). But I just burned one DVD and it skips and jumps all over the place randomly on my PS2. Works fine in all my Computer DVD players. I haven't tried it in my xbox cause my xbox's drive is toasted. Could the bitrate be too high? It's supposed to be a 3.5Mb/sec (2GB MPEG2 Video Stream for about 75 minutes) and if you do the math, that's correct. I have noticed that some of my other DVDs are starting to skip as well. A brand new Crossroads DVD has trouble playing. I guess it could be that my laser is going dead? I have a v10 PS2 with Romeo mod. should I try to bring the romeo mod up to 6 or 8vs?

if the bitrate isn't too high -- as you've stated -- then it sounds like a laser with reading problems.. if its not a dying laser it's your dvdr media thats low quality.. prepare for the worst..!

I just tried the same DVD in a brand new v12 (freshly installed laser too) and it skipped in the same spots.. must be the media, but this media is high quality. It's Teon DVD-R 8x. They work in everything (even GameCube). I guess I'll try to reburn it.. maybe burn it to my DVDRW.

Well then it sounds like the bitrate IS to high after all.. Try another media anyhow -- an try another burner too -- maybe your burner is going down instead..

No, media and burner is fine. I burned a different DVD I made from another source and it worked fine. I think it has to do with the way the tivo makes it's MPEG2 files.. I don't think they are aligned correctly, so they don't play in all players. I tried the same DVD in my 5 year old DVD player and the disc played fine. I'm gonna try to re-extract the file from the tivo in as a SVCD MPEG2 and see if it plays better from that.

just reencode the mpeg2 stream in software and burn it to another dvd then..