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Title: Burning DVDs?
Post by: GroovyPigThing on March 23, 2006, 20:10:01 PM

Ive just been trying to burn a DVD. Ive got all the files that are supposed to go in the VIDEO_TS folder, but when I burn it with Nero, it acts all fine while its burning it and then when it comes to verify it it cant find the DVD anymore, and the DVD is dead now :(

Any ideas as to what is going wrong??

Title: Burning DVDs?
Post by: Christopher Monkey on March 23, 2006, 20:15:45 PM

Are you reading it from the burner or a different drive?

Title: Burning DVDs?
Post by: GroovyPigThing on March 23, 2006, 20:16:32 PM

Im reading it from my hard drive, its something Ive downloaded that I want to burn to a DVD

Title: Burning DVDs?
Post by: Christopher Monkey on March 23, 2006, 20:17:51 PM

Sorry, what i meant was: are you reading the disk (post burn) from the burner, or a different drive?

Title: Burning DVDs?
Post by: GroovyPigThing on March 23, 2006, 20:18:17 PM

yeah the burner, thats the only drive I have

Title: Burning DVDs?
Post by: Christopher Monkey on March 23, 2006, 20:19:02 PM

Try it in a dvd player... see if that works

Title: Burning DVDs?
Post by: GroovyPigThing on March 23, 2006, 20:31:15 PM

Ive tried it in a DVD drive in a different computer, and on that one it recognises theres a DVD there ie it comes up with the title in my computer, but when I try to play it it cant read it. On my computer its still not recognizing it at all, rebooted and everything

Title: Burning DVDs?
Post by: brummie on March 23, 2006, 20:40:14 PM

Quote from: GroovyPigThing

Ive tried it in a DVD drive in a different computer, and on that one it recognises theres a DVD there ie it comes up with the title in my computer, but when I try to play it it cant read it. On my computer its still not recognizing it at all, rebooted and everything

maybe you need some proper/better DVD making software

Title: Burning DVDs?
Post by: GroovyPigThing on March 23, 2006, 21:02:02 PM

well Ive tried it in a DVD player now, and it doesnt appear to be working, however I dont know if the DVD player is supposed to be able read DVDRs

Title: Burning DVDs?
Post by: knighty on March 23, 2006, 21:42:59 PM

dont listen to brummie, nero rocks :p

how many times have you tried burning it ?

if its just the once then do it again but write it slower ;)

Title: Burning DVDs?
Post by: GroovyPigThing on March 23, 2006, 21:47:03 PM

ive tried twice, first one at 4x and 2nd at 1x, both with the same results :(


edit-- oops i was wrong, the second one i burned at 1x works in the DVD player and the other computer, but my computer wont recognize it :s

Title: Re:Burning DVDs?
Post by: dogbert on March 24, 2006, 09:48:08 AM

Ive had a similar problem, left a DVD writting ...once full nothing would read it. Was using Nero.

DVDWR is supposed to be 16x speed. Somthing wrong if it has to be written at x1 speed?!

Title: Burning DVDs?
Post by: GroovyPigThing on March 24, 2006, 10:09:57 AM

I think its something wrong with my DVD drive :( because Ive managed to burn one which works on a different computer and in a DVD player, just my computer cant recognize it :(

Title: Burning DVDs?
Post by: Mardoni on March 24, 2006, 12:03:28 PM

Have you got any "JIT" type on the fly DVD backup software running ?

Sometimes that will hose over the playback of a DVD if the JIT software sees the DVD as a possible backup destination.

Disable / close any other software that is using your DVD drive.

Also, when youre burning from within Nero are you making sure that you set the region code to the same as the region code in use by your DVDRom ? If not, your PC probably wont play the DVD back, unless it is multi-region

Title: Burning DVDs?
Post by: bear on March 24, 2006, 12:12:15 PM

I only had problems with one brand of disc using Nero, it would not find the disc when I was about to burn !  MAXdisc (http://www.maxdisc.de/) is a piece of crap IMO.

Title: Burning DVDs?
Post by: Serious on March 24, 2006, 17:13:04 PM

Quote from: GroovyPigThing

I think its something wrong with my DVD drive :( because Ive managed to burn one which works on a different computer and in a DVD player, just my computer cant recognize it :(

1) Try having a look in windows explorer. Some DVD writers take two drive letters and it may be your software is looking on the spare one.
2) burn another disk at 1X and set Nero to check the disk after writing. You can select this while the disk is writing

Title: Burning DVDs?
Post by: GroovyPigThing on March 24, 2006, 17:28:11 PM

Quote from: Serious

Quote from: GroovyPigThing

I think its something wrong with my DVD drive :( because Ive managed to burn one which works on a different computer and in a DVD player, just my computer cant recognize it :(

1) Try having a look in windows explorer. Some DVD writers take two drive letters and it may be your software is looking on the spare one.
2) burn another disk at 1X and set Nero to check the disk after writing. You can select this while the disk is writing

1) Pretty sure its not that, because when I look in the drive in explorer it doesnt recognize it as a proper DVD - and it plays properly on other DVD players so the DVD has clearly been burned.

2) I did that. Nero burns it fine, spits it out and takes it back in again, and then cant recognize theres a DVD there :s

Title: Re:Burning DVDs?
Post by: Sara on March 24, 2006, 17:29:12 PM

Does it play other DVDs okay?

Title: Burning DVDs?
Post by: GroovyPigThing on March 24, 2006, 17:29:42 PM

yep it plays proper DVDs fine, and burns and plays CDs fine too

Title: Re:Burning DVDs?
Post by: brummie on March 24, 2006, 17:39:49 PM

updated nero??

Title: Burning DVDs?
Post by: GroovyPigThing on March 24, 2006, 17:47:30 PM

its clearly not nero, since it burns the DVD fine which then plays properly in other drives