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??

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

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

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

yeah the burner, thats the only drive I have

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

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

Quote from: GroovyPigThingIve 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

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

dont listen to brummie, nero rocks

how many times have you tried burning it ?

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

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

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?!

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

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

I only had problems with one brand of disc using Nero, it would not find the disc when I was about to burn !  MAXdisc is a piece of crap IMO.