Actually, I didn't even install the packet writing garbage. That stuff never works well.

Thanks,

Scott

I tried a Sony DVD+RW tonight with the same results as the Memorex DVD+RW that I had tried previously. So... it's not a media problem.

The strange thing is that even though I have a +RW in the drive none of the Erase Mode options are available in the Burn dialog. I thought these were supposed to be available when DVDA sensed an RW disc in the drive.

Hmm.....

Seems like DVDA is not recognizing DVD+RW discs. It's clearly compatible with my drive as mentioned previously DVD+R burns perfectly.

Any ideas or is this maybe a bug in DVDA?

Thanks,

Scott

Hi Scott,

I just tried this myself and it worked ok for me. I used DVDAS 3.0, and I tossed a couple avi's onto a menu. I clicked make DVD and it rendered and then burned it to the DVD. It played ok in my DVD burnder and my DVD-rom drive.

I used a RiData 4x RW disc in my Plextor PX-708a. I haven't changed any settings in DVDAS 3 since I just installed it last week and this was the first DVD I've created and burned with it. I have a new BenQ 1640 coming Thursday...I just erased the DVD using DVDAS and I'll try it again with that burner later this week or over the weekend and post back with my results.

I realize I'm not offering much here...but at least now you know it can be done.

If I think of anything else I'll post back.

Good luck,

Gary

Hi Scott,

I received the new BenQ 1640 today and installed it. Eager to try a burn, I erased the disc from last night and burned it twice. Once using Roxio Disc Copier and once using DVDAS 3.0 (using the VIDEO_TS folder created by DVDAS yesterday). Both burns finished fine and ran ok on my PC and my set-top Sony DVD player. (Interestingly enough, the burn by DVDAS looked a little better than the Roxio one - interesting since they were both done using the same VIDEO_TS folder, the same disc and the same burner).

Hopefully someone else will chime in here with some ideas...I'm fresh out. :-(

Gary

Gary,

Thanks for the tests and info. It could just be an issue with my LG drive. When using your BenQ did you see the Erase Mode buttons in the final Burn dialog?

The strange thing is that even though I have a +RW in the drive none of the Erase Mode options are available in the Burn dialog. I thought these were supposed to be available when DVDA sensed an RW disc in the drive. If your Erase Mode buttons are there, that would tend to point to DVDA not recognizing my drive properly (maybe).

Thanks,

Scott

I think your original post said something quite important: Nero could not burn to a +RW either.

If that's the case, you may have an issue with your drive. This has happened to me on two different drives (well, sorta). One drive lost the ability to burn CDs (but worked with DVDs). The other drive would write DVD+Rs just fine, but nothing else. I figure, for $60, these things are just not gonna last too long (disposable, in my opinion).

Have you tried swapping the burner out?

Hi Scott,

Interestingly enough, all the radio buttons are greyed out in the "erase mode" section of the final burn screen for me, too. When I mentioned erasing the disc in my previous post, I did it by selecting File --> Erase DVD. I didn't notice the buttons you were referring to (possibly because they were greyed out) when I did my other burns.

DOH! I just checked the help file. It says, "d. If you're using a -RW disc, you can select one of the Erase mode radio buttons to erase the disc before burning."

I guess that explains why we couldn't get to them with a +RW disc. That still doesn't answer your original question though. :-( I can tell you that I have indeed burned an ISO to a +RW disc before, but I have Roxio and not Nero. Do you have any other software you could try that will burn an ISO besides Nero? DVD Decrypter if free and I'm pretty sure it will burn an ISO.

Take care,

Gary

>DVD Decrypter if free and I'm pretty sure it will burn an ISO.

From memory, DVD Decrypter doesn't have a built in burner, but it does have an interface to Nero.

I've noticed that most software can't burn ISO once a DVD has been burned with UDF. That shouldn't be a problem since you're going to write UDF anyway, but if you're OK with brand new rewriteables and not used ones that might be part of the problem.

Ian G.

Ian G.

From memory, DVD Decrypter doesn't have a built in burner, but it does have an interface to Nero.

DVD Decrypter will burn an ISO on its own.