After 3 burns, hardware errors??

wbtczn wrote on 11/26/2005, 8:58 PM

I've been working on a video using Vegas Movie Studio 4.0 and have burned it successfully three times in DVDA 3.0. I'm on my fourth iteration of changes and went to burn another DVD. When I click "Make DVD" and then "Prepare", everything comes back fine. But when I then click "Make DVD" and "Burn" it tried to burn the lead in for about 2 minutes and then I receive a hardware error with the following details:

'SFMMCX'-(17)
'atapi'-(1)
-'SONY DVD RW DRU-530A 2.1g'-(1)
Module sfmmcx.cpp Line 1795
A hardware error occurred.
A tracking servo failure occurred.

Status: 00020202
Command: 2a 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 20 00
Sense: 04 09 01
Info: 00 00 00 00
Specific: 00 00 00
Extra: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

After trying three disks (from the same package that I had the successful burns), I decided to reboot and try again. Same error (nothing else is running).

Then, I went into Windows Media Player to see if I could burn a CD still. The first time I tried, it erred saying that it had to slow the burn speed down and that I should put a new disk in and retry. I did, and it worked.

Is it something with the drive? It's a Sony DRU530A. I've seen varying degrees of success / satisfaction with them on the forums. I've had it for a couple of years and have burned numerous CDs with it -- no problems. I didn't have any problems with it on the DVD side until tonight. The last DVD I burned was this morning, and it worked fine.

Any thoughts???? Thanks!

Comments

jrazz wrote on 11/27/2005, 5:46 PM

Try using Nero for burning. Just import the files in the VIDEO_TS folder into the VIDEO_TS folder under Nero's template. I have never had a problem this way. I have had problems on and off with burning from DVDA, so I just let it prepare the files to be burned and then I use Nero and like I said, never had a problem doing it this way yet.

j razz

wbtczn wrote on 11/27/2005, 8:19 PM

I've seen a lot of references to Nero, but I've never used it. How much does it cost?

Call me silly, but it doesn't seem right to me that I need to buy one piece of software to create a movie (Vegas Movie Studio), one piece of software to prepare it (Architect) and one piece to burn it. It seems like for as long as Architect has existed Sony would want us to utilize their software.

wbtczn wrote on 11/28/2005, 9:27 PM

Question - could the fact that is says in the lower right hand corner of the screen that I am using 98% of the disk space have anything to do with the error?

Second question -- how can a one hour fifteen minute video fill up a full disk??? How do movie studios put so much more on a disk???

ScottW wrote on 11/29/2005, 5:19 AM

If your burner is not tracking correctly (which is what the servo error is suggesting), then yes, having a 98% full disk could be a problem. Most reading issues are going to occur along the outer edge of a disk which is why I don't like to burn right to the edge.

First, movie studios use dual layer disks so they have twice the space available; second, movies are compressed with much better encorders and are starting with significantly better source material. They also usually have a lower average bit rate (usually around 5Mbps) - they can go with the lower bitrate because of the encoder and the quality of the source material.

--Scott