any reason why some movies burn to cdr better than others?

[devonrs]

just wondering, sometimes ill burn a movie and when i try to play it directly off the cd it won't work, the cd rom light will flash and you can hear the cd going crazy but it just won't play. this has only happened to me 4 or 5 times, out of a few hundred movies, usually it plays just fine... anything i can do? also, some movies seem to give burning errors, at first i thought it was just the conditions of the burn, not the file itself, but it seems to be that some files cause errors and just wont burn... again, any suggestions?

[aleksander]

Those movies that won't play. Thay can be Overburned. Some people say they have problems playing overburned movies right off the cd-drive....
Funny thing - my overburned movies won't play with my cd-rw (the one that was used for overburning) but they will play with my dvd....
Very important is also a quality of the cd-r discs. If you get crappy discs you will most likely have some errors with it...

aleksander

[devonrs]

overburned? you mean because they're too big? ..thats not what im talking about at all, i have some movies, some that are like, under 650 megs, that burn fine, but then just wont play off the cd, i dont even know if they'll copy back to the harddrive and then play, i havent checked that, i just know i put the cd in and it wont play, im guessing they wouldnt copy either because ive also burned other movies that play just fine all the way through off the cd but when i try to copy them back to the harddrive or make another cd copy of them it wont work cause of some tiny scratch, even though they can play all the way through fine.. so anyway, i still have no clue why some movies just wont play off cdr... im using the same brand of cdr i use for all the other movies i burn, and 98 percent of them work just fine..... ??

[aleksander]

This can be also a problem with your cd-drive. You say that they won't copy because of a tiny scratch, so most probably your cd-drive doesn't have a good Error Correction - is very sensitive to every little scratch and error....
Try some other drives and see if it happens again.

aleksander

[devonrs]

no, i dont think its that... cause first of all i have two cd roms and it wont work in either when it happens, and second, its happened repeatedly with the same movie, and its after the movie was just burned, the cdrs are all brand new... for instance,

ill burn a movie, itll play fine. no problems.

then ill burn another movie, it wont play off the cd, i throw away the cd and try again, still wont play, in either drive... so im thinking it must be the movie.. ? i dont know.. ill try experimenting with whatever else i can think of, but im going through a ton of cds! :(

[aleksander]

I really would like to help you, but I just simply cannot think of anything else...:(
Oh...and one more thing. You're saying that you use the same brand of cd-r every time and 98% of them works just fine. I bet that the other 2% are faulty. It happens.You just can't do anything about it.
Some time ago I bought 10 TDK cd-rs and 7 (!!!!)of them were faulty.

aleksander

[diji1]

hey devonrs - ru runnning xp ? i notice theres a patch out to fix problems on some cdr drives ... sorry i can't tell u more about it ( what the fix actually does ). basically i have a sony cdr that started to become fairly erratic, like id take a cd out that id been playing and the next one wouldn't work so when i saw that xp patch i just installed it and it seems fine after that. could be worth worth investigating some more maybe.

[devonrs]

but i think i figured out the problem... thanks anyway.

[sibe]

So what was the problem, after all?

Sibe

[devonrs]

honestly, im still not sure, cause it's happened with other movies that i ended up just throwing away, but this movie, i noticed, after burning it 3 times with no luck, wasnt a complete file, even though i know it used to be, cause i watched it when i first downloaded, but after burning it, i tried to open it and it wouldnt... so it was the source file in the first place... but how that happened to it i dont know, i never edited it or did anything to it.... but oh well, the problem doesn't happen that often...