DVD burning problem px-716a

[mrpink2]

Okay. I tried to create a copy from an unprotected DVD. Tried various ripping and burning methods (DVDShrink, DVDDecrypter, Nero 6.3.1.25) on different media, but every DVD I create has decoding glichtes at always the same moments... the ripped vob files on my hd play perfect...

i am totally confused... any ideas? Using PX-716a on xpsp2

thanks!

[LIGHTNING UK!]

If they play from your hdd but not from the disc you've burnt them onto, your media is the issue.

Check your plex is running the 1.09 firmware (latest at this moment in time).

[gorangel]

Try to burn the dvd files with nero, (not an iso or image file, just the dvd files) that works for me.

[kbuegel]

It could be your writer is giving you troubles. I was starting to get occasional write errors on my DVD's (I always use Nero with the checkbox checked to validate image after writing). I was using a laptop with a DVD writer, and not sure who was the manufacturer of the writer but after writing about 100 DVD's I was getting about 33% failure rate, even when slowing down to 2x write speed.
Finally, I bought a $100 external Sony DVD writer at Fry's and it burns everything perfectly with no failures using the same media I was having troubles with before (pack of 50 white-topped Ritek). External writer uses firewire and claims to write at 16x but I've only gone to 8X so far because I don't want to push it. But so far it works great, and have 100% success with about 10 DVD's burned.

[mrpink2]

thanks for the input.

I have now discovered that the writer generates faulty discs - no matter what. Tried different media, different programs (inlcuding plextor's) and different burning formats. I burned a couple of divx-encoded files and from the dvd they play very faulty (audio and image errors).

So I guess it has to be a hardware problem then?

[CWR03]

Did you try different speeds? If you always allow it to burn at max speed it's not unusual to have some problems, though usually it would play back in the writer with which it was burned.

When my last burner began to fail, I could see gaps in the written disk.

[mrpink2]

yes. i tried the slowest possible speed - makes no difference.

gonna write to plextor now, trying to get a replacement (my 2nd...)

[eriksen76]

I have the same Plextor write (14 days old) and I don't experience any of your mentioned errors.

As one mentioned before in this thread, I also had issues with the dvd burner in my Fujitsu/Siemes labtop. It has an NEC 6550 burner.

The NEC burner seems very picky when it comes to media compability, even though I always use Verbatim or Mitsubischi medias (same manufactorer)

It gave me burning successful, but when verifying it game me errors many times. (Using both Dvddecrypter and Nero)

So far I have given up using my NEC burner in my labtop, and started burning only using my Pioneer 108 and Plextor 716. No problems at all with those, and I've started verifying all the time.

Conslussion, it must be your burner that causes the errors.

/Eriksen76

[setarip_old]

@mrpink2

Hi!

You might want to try running a DVD/CD cleaning disc on your burner. Maxell makes one that sells for about $10US...