DVDs not being burnt correctly

kunal wrote on 11/16/2005, 11:43 PM

Hi,

I'm trying out DVD Architect 2.0b for the first time. I authored a short movie and after doing the burn (on a Verbatim DVD-R) DVD Arch. says that the burn is successfully completed, however when I play the DVD on my laptop, it detects a blank CD instead of an authored DVD. I open the properties of the media in the DVD drive and check the size of the DVD -- it says 0 bytes occupied. (for some reason, my laptop detects it as a CD, instead of a DVD)

I can play the VIDEO_TS file from the burn folder and that looks authored well to me -- just that the DVD seems to be detected as a blank one by my laptop. I tried burning 2 DVDs but same problem. I've burnt DVDs on this laptop and successfully played them (burnt using InterVideoDVD Creator, just for trial), so I don't think it's a laptop/DVD problem.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Kunal.

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B.Verlik wrote on 11/19/2005, 11:14 AM

Hey, you can always download that trial version of Nero and try to burn those -R's. Why lose the money on the discs. Wait until you know you can burn them all within the trial period.

craftech wrote on 11/19/2005, 1:54 PM

I was almost on the verge of downloading the trial version of Nero, before I decided to do one last shot and I tried +R media in the drive and it burns fine..what a winding tortuous road to discover this. I can be sure not to put any -R in there from now on.

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I only burn with DVDA and don't have a problem with the media I mentioned above. If the drive is a problem, you can get another one cheaper than wasting a lot of incompatible media. An NEC ND-3520A or NEC ND-3540A are around $40.
You also can look at the higly rated BenQ DW1640 for around the same price.
As far as that media you have, you can try burning at 4X with it.

John

busterkeaton wrote on 11/21/2005, 3:50 PM

Kunal, glad to hear you got it worked out.

I recently replaced a Pioneer drive with an NEC ND-3540A and haven't had any problems with it so far.

I use Taiyo Yuden DVD+R media which is sold under the FujiFilm brand. The "Made in Japan" Fujifilms, not the Taiwan ones.

kunal wrote on 11/22/2005, 12:33 PM

I'm about to buy a 50-pack of Taiyo Yuden +Rs from supermediastore. Any other recommended sites to get better deals from?

thanks!
Kunal.

fldave wrote on 11/22/2005, 1:07 PM

I've had good luck with meritline.com.