Thread: Problems burning DVDs

I know this may sound silly or stupid, but try putting them in different makes / brands of DVD players. You may be lucky and strike one that can read it...

I've had similar problems before :-

Most times you will need to finish/close a cd for it to work. If you leave it open to add more data a lot of cd players will not recognise it. There should be a finsh tab in the burning software and you should be able to put these cd's back in and close them.

turn off multi-session & turn on finalise CD
it will be in your options/settings menu for the program you use to burn with

DVD recording is a lot less robust than CD recording - prefer CDs for critical pictures. It is not unusual to find that DVDs recorded on one drive are not readable on another one or even on itself. I have seen it stated that DVD-Rs are a better bet than +R but I can't speak from experience. I have only had a DVD burner for about a month and have never (so far) had any problems at all. But I have done a bit of reading about it. There are some relevant comments in the current 'Silicon Chip' magazine talking about DVD-HD vs Blu-ray.

Thanks chaps.

Hmm, will check but I don't normally use multi-session with the DVDs.

My PC's uses DVD+R.

What speed are you burning at?

If you don't have a newish DVD burner, stick to 4x. I made a lot of drinks coasters by trying to burn at 8x.

I think you will have to chuck the dud ones you've already burnt.

Wierd. I tried a couple in the DVD player attached to the TV and that will read the DVDs with the CT movies in AVI format - but the DVD burner that wrote them can't.

Ron

Hmmmm, it seems wierd that your burner is burning to the discs but won't play them back. This to me raises some questions. Although this has happened to me in the past.

1. Need to know brand and model number of burner

2. Are you burning your files as a DVD (as in one that can be played back on a stand-alone dvd player) or just storing the files in the same format on the disc as you downloaded them (DVD_ROM ISO)?

3. What software are you burning with?

Imation are some of the crappest, most unreliable, most expensive discs I have come across (almost as bad as Sony). After a long period of trial and error, buying several different brands (including discs made in Japan), I refuse to buy anything other TDK DVD-R. TDK are not very expensive to buy (approx $50-60 for 50 disc on a spindle) and are considered to be one of the better quality disc out there. Cheaper if you buy a spindle of 100.

DVD+R seem to be very uncompatible with alot of DVD players to start with. Also brands of disc that burners like vary from brand to brand. A brand of disc that works fine in say a LG burner, might not burn at all in say a Benq burner.

BTW, it's always a good thing to check a disc after you have burnt it before you delete the original files and never burn a DVD at any thing fast than 4X, 2X if you are not worried about the time difference.

I will have adsl2 in about 2 weeks and would be more than willing to p2p what Top Gear and 4x4 files I have here to you (I got about 30 gigs in total) .

Ps: Please no flaming me for my views, be it good or bad on brands of disc mentioned here. I am only expressing what has worked for me and has helped my friends with the brands and models, I and they own.