DVD burning question

[Gentle Ben]

I'm just getting into DVD burning, bought a pioneer burner and burned a few things that arent copy protected with Nero.
Burned them to DVD-R discs and they play in my computers and 1 of 2 of my dvd home players, not the other, get a message(bad disc). I have some stuff that a friend burned for me on a stand alone DVD burner, on DVD-R,s that play fine on it, curious if any one has any thoughts, is it disc related, burning software related, any ideas?

Thanks

 

[biog]

Try this.

I used to have the same type of problem GB. Actually bought a new DVD player before I figured out what I was doing wrong. It had to do with some of the settings in Nero.

This site has a tutorial:

http://www.dvd-guides.com/content/view/40/59/

This site has a tonne of information about all things DVDR/CDR etc...

www.videohelp.com

Hope this helps!

I'm just getting into DVD burning, bought a pioneer burner and burned a few things that arent copy protected with Nero.
Burned them to DVD-R discs and they play in my computers and 1 of 2 of my dvd home players, not the other, get a message(bad disc). I have some stuff that a friend burned for me on a stand alone DVD burner, on DVD-R,s that play fine on it, curious if any one has any thoughts, is it disc related, burning software related, any ideas?

Thanks

 

[Gentle Ben]

Thanks for the input everyone!
I tried sony discs tonight and they work fine, I'm thinking the machine is a bit flakey, no name discs are marginal, combined it wouldnt play.

 

[OhSnap]

get dvd decrypter and dvd shrink and you'll be fine

 

[frankcastle]

I use dvd decrypter (take the movie from disk to hard drive), dvd shrink(prepare files on hard drive to be written to disk), and roxioeasy cd & dvd creator (to write the files to disk).

I like these programs because they are free and spyware free. I once tried to install a version of nero but found it had spyware. Not sure where my friend got these programs for me might have been www.majorgeeks.com (if not its still a great site if you need to get a program)

the previous posters did a bang on job of outlining the potential problems and useful links.

stay away from DYNEX disks I bought 200 of them from Futureshop because they were dirt cheap (worked out to be $0.25 per disk) but none of the movies I burned worked in my player. Too bad I lost the receipt. Name brand disks all the way...... usually one of the name brands will be on sale at any given time.

 

[kricket]

the problem could be you are using old player. Some of the old players doesn't paly burned DVDs.

 

[OhSnap]

stay away from DYNEX disks I bought 200 of them from Futureshop because they were dirt cheap (worked out to be $0.25 per disk) but none of the movies I burned worked in my player. Too bad I lost the receipt. Name brand disks all the way...... usually one of the name brands will be on sale at any given time.

give em to me then I will admit the Dynex aren't the best, but they always played for me, when they burned properly heh, out of 100 I'd say 10 failed, which isn't that bad considering the price, but I'd still pay a bit more for no failures

 

[Gentle Ben]

I have always stuck to good known names for CDs, not sure why I tried el cheapos DVD's, must be the heat getting to me! LOL
name brands from now on!
to me, its not worh the agrevation of failures,pay a bit more & have peace of mind.

Thanks all for the help!

 

[frankcastle]

Sorry Oh Snap,

After discovering I had expensive coasters that I couldn't return I gave it to a friend who was willing to take the risk with them.

Speaking of DYNEX I noticed that future shop was selling dual layerd blank DVDs in packs of 15 for about $5 a disk or so (can't quite remember). This is of particular interest to those who don't want to compress their movies.

 

[Gentle Ben]

I was quoted about $5ea for dual layer DVD as well (not at Future Shop)

 

[frankcastle]

$5 is a good price but I'm not ready to run out and buy a batch just yet. This is the first time they have dipped below $10 and once more companies start offering DL disks and DL burners become more popular they will drop even lower till then I'm happy paying $0.60 per disk.

 

[Gentle Ben]

once more companies start offering DL disks and DL burners become more popular they will drop even lower

from what I was told when I purchased my burner,(this week)"Virtually all DVD burners are now dual layer", so I agree, I think we'll start to see prices of Dual layer DVD's start to fall.