A Recorded Disc wont play on my Player

[timmy toad]

Hi all, I have got a Video Casstte with some old home movies on, taken about 1935 !, I have a couple of friends with DVD Recorders, i asked them both to copy the Video Cassette onto a Blank DVD for me.

Now i find that neither of them will play on my DVD Player.

One of the Recorders used a DVD RAM disc, the other one used a DVD-R disc, i am not entirely sure my DVD Player can read DVD RAM disc's anyway, but i do know it can read DVD-R disc's.

I have a feeling that these newly recorded DVD's should be CLOSED or FINALISED somehow, but neither of my friends know what i am talking about !!!!!!!!, am i talking sense here or what ?, otherwise what else could be wrong ?.

tim

[setarip_old]

To determine the capabilities/limitations of your specific brand and model of standalone DVD player, as well as media compatibility, go to:

www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdplayers

Have you tried using DVD Decrypter to finalize the DVD-R?

[timmy toad]

hiya friend, my DVD player is a sony dvp-ns29 the details listed from that just dont add up, it Plays DVD-R's fine normally.

I cant read the disc's on two different PC computers, with quite new dual layer DVD Drives, either.

As a result DVD Decrypter doesnt recognise them either

[CWR03]

Ask your friends if they ever take their recorded disks and play them in a PC. I'll bet the answer is no, so they've never found a reason to seek the "finalize" feature on the recorder and don't even know about it. Most recorders of that type will still play their own non-finalized disks, done intentionally to help idiot-proof their playback.

[setarip_old]

@timmytoad

1) The fact that your player can play DVD-Rs doesn't mean that it can play ALL BRANDS of DVD-Rs or DVD-Rs burned at different speeds ...

2) If your PC can't even "see" the DVD-R in Windows Explorer, I'm afraid you're out of luck.

In Windows Explorer, what happens when you place the DVD-R in the drive and then doubleclick on the drive icon?

[timmy toad]

@timmytoad

1) The fact that your player can play DVD-Rs doesn't mean that it can play ALL BRANDS of DVD-Rs or DVD-Rs burned at different speeds ...

2) If your PC can't even "see" the DVD-R in Windows Explorer, I'm afraid you're out of luck.

In Windows Explorer, what happens when you place the DVD-R in the drive and then doubleclick on the drive icon?

thanks friend, actually the computer usually hangs up when i put the disc in, at other times it recognises it as a blank disc and gives the option to start NERO etc.

He used a RiDisc DVD-R that i gave him, which have always work on my Computer perfectly.

tim

[timmy toad]

Ask your friends if they ever take their recorded disks and play them in a PC. I'll bet the answer is no, so they've never found a reason to seek the "finalize" feature on the recorder and don't even know about it. Most recorders of that type will still play their own non-finalized disks, done intentionally to help idiot-proof their playback.

Thanks friend, I do believe you have hit the nail on the head buddy. I shall ask 'em as soon as i can.

tim