Well, I tried posting this question to the general DVD board but it got ignored, so I'm hoping someone here can answer it. 
I have a Toshiba SD-1700 DVD player. It works fine with every DVD I have. Lately though at times it makes a squeaking sound sometimes when it plays, other times it doesn't. When it does squeak, it usually stops after about 10-15 minutes. Has nothing to do with the DVDs, because sometimes it will squeak, sometimes not when using the same DVD.
But my actual question is this...
I recently got the Challenge of the Superfriends (cartoon) DVD, and I've noticed that if I pause any part of the disc, it "wobbles". That is, the frozen image flickers and splits into two overlapping, flickering versions of the same image. If I advance frame by frame, out of every 5 frames, two do this. In other words, when I freeze frame it, that is frame 1. I hit pause again, advancing it to frame 2, and it's still fine. Frames 3 and 4 flicker, then back to normal for frame 5. So it's always frames 3 and 4 flickering out of every 5 frames when pausing/going frame by frame.
It doesn't seem to do this with any other DVD. I tried about a half dozen or so.
So...does it sound like an error in that particular disc, or is it likely that ALL the Challeng of the Superfriends have an encoding error? Or could it still be some problem with the DVD player that's not showing itself on other discs?
Any help would be appreciated.
I have a Toshiba SD-1700 DVD player. It works fine with every DVD I have. Lately though at times it makes a squeaking sound sometimes when it plays, other times it doesn't. When it does squeak, it usually stops after about 10-15 minutes. Has nothing to do with the DVDs, because sometimes it will squeak, sometimes not when using the same DVD.
But my actual question is this...
I recently got the Challenge of the Superfriends (cartoon) DVD, and I've noticed that if I pause any part of the disc, it "wobbles". That is, the frozen image flickers and splits into two overlapping, flickering versions of the same image. If I advance frame by frame, out of every 5 frames, two do this. In other words, when I freeze frame it, that is frame 1. I hit pause again, advancing it to frame 2, and it's still fine. Frames 3 and 4 flicker, then back to normal for frame 5. So it's always frames 3 and 4 flickering out of every 5 frames when pausing/going frame by frame.
It doesn't seem to do this with any other DVD. I tried about a half dozen or so.
So...does it sound like an error in that particular disc, or is it likely that ALL the Challeng of the Superfriends have an encoding error? Or could it still be some problem with the DVD player that's not showing itself on other discs?
Any help would be appreciated.
