So... Badly... Want... To... Flash... Lite-On...

[Imaginer]

I am having problems playing burned video files off of the Liteon 24102B. Everytime I change the time position, it usually pauses before video catches up and even then after, the video gives a pause every 30 seconds or so and comes back after 5 seconds.

But... I heard people having problems after flashing that other things don't work such as burning and reading.

?????

Before you start bashing, I did this to save ~$30 on this burner compared to the Plextor.

 

[John]

Some people also have problems doing the following, but not limited to:

[*]following instructions
[*]flashing motherboard bios, video card bios, DVDROM RPC flash
[*]just about everything else

If you think just because a few others have problems that you will follow their trend, please look into a different hobby.

 

[Imaginer]

<< Some people also have problems doing the following, but not limited to:

[*]following instructions
[*]flashing motherboard bios, video card bios, DVDROM RPC flash
[*]just about everything else

If you think just because a few others have problems that you will follow their trend, please look into a different hobby. >>



I have never flashed anything else in my system. I just need some advice on this problem. Will it fix it?

 

[John]

<< I have never flashed anything else in my system. I just need some advice on this problem. Will it fix it? >>



Quite possibly, but then again maybe it wont. I was having a problems with my Liteon 24102B burning original music cd's on the fly until I flashed it to the latest firmware.

 

[Damascus]

Have you considered that it pauses and stutters because its a CDRW drive? My old
Yamaha burner had horrible random seek times, and I'd imagine that be the case
with most CDRW drives.

 

[Bovinicus]

You might as well give it a shot. It shouldn't hurt anything.

 

[Imaginer]

Maybe you are right about the seek times. But I think my Plextor before had better seek times then.

Didn't flash. My firmware was 5S07. The program says it must be 5S01 only.

 

[John]

<< The program says it must be 5S01 only. >>



What program tells you this?

My firmware is 5S54

 

[WarCon]

I have the same problem with my DVD player and DVD movies. I am not sure it has anything to do with the drive, but I am thinking it has to do with the software. My PowerDVD doesn't do it as bad as WinDVD. You might try a different player before you condemn your drive as the source of the problem.

I have also been finding that I have playback issues with music (final tracks near the edge specifically) if I burned it at the highest rating (of the CD) on normal CD-R's (not ones that specifically say music). You might try burning it at a slower rate or try better CD-R's.

................edit..................
This is assuming that the movie's your having problems with were from burns you made with that burner.

Also I read your post more carefully and I only get the 5 seconds of freak out after moving locations in the DVD, not the glitch every 30 seconds.

 

[Imaginer]

The actual flashing utility itself. It shows a list of what drive to select and along side the model, it displays what I think is the firmware.

 

[Imaginer]

Must be the media and the burn speed. I recently burned a few memorex cds at 24x instead of the rated 16x. I popped in a Sony cd-r I burned awhile ago and it seeked the video a whole lot better.

I think I hope it serves me just as well as the Plextor.



<< Also I read your post more carefully and I only get the 5 seconds of freak out after moving locations in the DVD, not the glitch every 30 seconds. >>



That is what I was talking about. Sometimes it does that but only like for a second where it moves superfast.

*update* FYI: It reads funky with the ATI player with an asf file and better on windows media player. With the ATI player, it would pause every 3 seconds and then after ~30, it would stop and go back to the beginning and not play. This is with the Data Research 16x CDR media (some generic brand)

But, with the Pioneer 115, it seems OK no matter what the player or media....