Help! Ever had an ISO that refused to write to a DVD?

[recoil47]

Well I have two!

Oddly enough, both are in the same movie series. Back to the Future and Back to the Future II. I have two images that are ready to burn to a single layer DVD. I use DVD Decrypter to write the ISO, it says its burning, however when its done, the VERYFY fails, and the DVD remains EMPTY!!

I tried with Nero as well, and the burn fails.

ALL other backups I have done have been fine, and I've never seen this before except with this DVD Series.

Ideas?

[setarip_old]

Hi!

1) What software and procedures did you use to create the .ISOs?

2) Can you play the .ISOs, using the VLC player?

[blutach]

Did the disk finalise? In DVD Decrypter try to close the disk.

Tools - Drive - Disc - Close.

Do you have a burning log from DVD Decrypter to post? What media are you using? Firmware up to date?

Regards

[recoil47]

OK a few points:

1) Media is Taio Yuden (or some spelling like that) so the media is excellent. I haven't had one bad disc in the 200+ I've used.

2) I used IMGTOOL to create the ISO.

3) I can view that ISO (when mounted) using WinDVD and it plays just fine...so its not the ISO.

4) Please bear in mind the ONLY time this has happened before is with these 2 movies. Both are part of the Back to the Future Trilogy. I suspect when I try to do BTTF:Part III the same thing will happen.

5) The DVD Decrypter issue is as follows. The program ACTS like its writing the DVD....but never actually writes anything ON the DVD. So it goes through the entire writing process, then goes to do the VERIFY process, and errors out there giving some sector 0 error. However, when this is done, it says the DVD is EMPTY. So nothing was actually ever written.

Ill upload a log shortly.

[battscrew]

Do you have test mode checked?

[recoil47]

Nope.

[setarip_old]

The program ACTS like its writing the DVD....but never actually writes anything ON the DVD. I doubt that this is correct.

Have you as yet tried the suggestion to, in DVD Decrypter, try to close the disk as follows?:

Tools>>Drive>>Disc>>Close

[recoil47]

I will try that tonight.

[recoil47]

You know what, I have bigger issues now than just those two ISOs not burning...and old problem has reared its ugly head. So, I'm hoping someone can tell me what this problem is. Granted, this problem was fixed a bit ago, and all was fine for months, but for some reason its back.

1) I put a DVD into my drive, then fire up DVD Decrypter and try to burn and ISO do the disc.

2) It starts to do the "Write Lead-In Track". This goes for about 15-20 seconds, then I get the following error message:

http://www.thepeacemakers.com/images/dvddecrypt-error.jpg

3) The sweet thing about this error, is that it kills the burn JUST after it starts writing the lead-in track, so the disc is now no longer empty and its a coaster.

My hardware:

Plextor SA-716 (Serial ATA Burner)
Firmware is the latest build
Asus A8V-Deluxe (AMD Compatible) motherboard

Now I should tell you that when I started having these problems 6 months ago, I went and updated my VIA Drivers for the SATA RAID TOOL, and one other driver. This seemed to work. What would happen is:

1) It would start the burn process as it used to (described above).

2) When it began the lead-in track, the timer counting elapsed time would FREEZE for about 5-10 seconds (this is normally when it would error out before).

3) After it unfroze it would continue counting for a bit more, and at about 40 seconds it would start burning.

4) It would note a WRITE RETRY in the log

So basically, it looked like instead of just spitting an error out at me, the new drivers were enabling it to re-try the burn, and then it was successful.

My DVD burner is plugged into the SATA controller.

Does ANYONE have ideas as to what this problem is, and how to fix it? Should I just junk my drive and screw the SATA connection and go with a normal IDE one? I like the speed of SATA, but if its a buggy interface for DVD burning, then to hell with it, I just want it to work.

I'm open to ideas here and very frustrated. I can't burn ANYTHING right now without getting that error.

Thanks!

[LIGHTNING UK!]

1.09 is the latest firmware version, not 1.04 which you appear to be running.

[recoil47]

1.09 is the latest firmware version, not 1.04 which you appear to be running.

Actually no, I am running 1.09, and have been for the last 4-5 months I'd say. I visually confirmed it a second ago. Not sure how you could tell I was running 1.04 though...

[setarip_old]

Not sure how you could tell I was running 1.04 though...Look at the screen grab you provided (The line that begins with "Device:")

[recoil47]

Ah. Old Screengrab from december, before I updated the firmware. The new error is the exact same thing though.