Generated files won't work on DVD - only once..

TomCato wrote on 1/4/2004, 4:17 AM
Hi there!

I generated the DVD files for a project and burned them directly using the "Prepare DVD and burn" button. The DVD worked fine.

Later, however, I wanted to make another copy and used the "Burn" button to use the previosly generated files. But the generated DVD did not work at all. I tried two different discs, one Maxell +R and one MMORE +RW and both fail both on my Pioneer standalone player and the PC. The burner is a NEC 1300A. I did not touch the files and they are all there.

Anyone else encounter something like this?

Comments

HORSE wrote on 1/6/2004, 12:33 PM
When you click "Burn", you're sure the file path is correct? Try re-preparing the file without burning and then go from there, perhaps.
gotnick wrote on 1/7/2004, 10:57 AM
You may have a bad drive. We justed replaced an NEC 1300A drive that was creating bad masters on our $6,000.00 DVLine video workstation. It's sitting right next to me, and I was just about to call NEC myself when I saw your post.

Take a look at the bad disc and see if there is a GAP in the data. You can clearly see the gap on our bad discs. We are in the process of getting this drive replaced, and we already bought a different drive to replace it.

By the way, the workstation with the bad drive was running Premiere Pro and authoring in DVDit. We couldn't even make a disc image in Nero with the bad drive, and that PC doesn't even have DVD archetect on it.
gotnick wrote on 1/8/2004, 1:00 PM
Where did you buy your drive? I just called NEC and they won't support any returns for their drves. They are "OEM" drives only, and they will not take them back. You must go the the maker of the PC.
wobblyboy wrote on 1/8/2004, 11:51 PM
Make sure that you are pointing at the right folder and that both the audio_ts and video_ts folders are there. Even though there is nothing in the audio-ts folder, DVDA wants it there to burn. I have used DVDA to burn disks that I have decripted using DVD Decripter and they burned fine. I just had to add a dummy audio_ts folder.