DVD Burning on Laptop

[crjackson]

I've been burning DVD movies flawlessly on my desktop for years. Recently I purchased a Athlon 64 3200+ laptop with a liteon DVD burner. I ripped and burned a movie only to find that on topset playback, the movie would pause, and show a scrambled (digital blocks) every 30 seconds or so (not at regular intervals). I upgraded the memory to 1.25GB, and installed a 7200rpm HD to speed things up. I installed the latest verson of NERO. I tried again to find that things were better than before (same movie LOTR), but the problems are still there (just not as often). I decided to turn off the generic write contro in NERO and tested again. I thought it was a perfect burn, but about 45 minutes inot the movie, the errors returned.

Does anyone know what the problem could be? I forgot to mention that DMA is turned on for all drives. The new HD (Hitachi Travelstar7k60 w/8mb cache) is markedly faster than the stock Hitachi Travelstar 4200rpm drive. The buffer level never drops below 96% while burning. If it's not a problem with the burner it's self, then I don't have a clue what to try next.

Any suggestions appriciated.

Thanks,

-crjackson

[spiderman2k1]

try copytodvd and clonedvd to burn your dvd's.

[budz]

what software besides NERO are you using to back up your dvd movies?
try dvd decypter and dvd shrink then burn with nero or img tool burn

[crjackson]

I use smartripper, and then dvd2one 1.40. The same system/movie works flawlessly on my desktop system.

[crjackson]

Looks like I'm on my own with this one. I guess it's just another unsolved mystery.

[budz]

you may want to post your problem at the LITEON FORUM at cdfreaks.com

The same system/movie works flawlessly on my desktop system.

That doesn't mean it'll work on your laptop burner. Lots of variables. I got a LITEON 411S@811S burner that can't use NERO version 5.5.10.42 but my PLEXTOR 708A uses it flawlessly. I use NERO 6.3.0.3 for the LITEON burner. I would suggest you try different software. I made a suggestion for you to use DVD DECRYPTER - RIP IN FILE MODE, then use DVD SHRINK to compress then NERO to burn. If you want help take up on the suggestions that were made or yuh, you're on your own as you stated.

[crjackson]

If you want help take up on the suggestions that were made or yuh, you're on your own as you stated.

And I did follow your suggestions, it gave me nearly identical results. I guess I should have made that clear. Thank you for your help.

[ViRaL1]

Curious...what interface are you using to connect the burner to your laptop?

[crjackson]

It's the IDE interface. It's an internal drive. However I'm happy to report that I'm now making flawless burns (2 so far). I bought some DVD+R media (4x Maxell) and at 2.4x burns, with externad HD as source, it's now working perfect. I suspect the drive is better with DVD+R than it is with DVD-R. However, I will try a different brand of DVD-R to see if it was the particular media, or the particular format.

[richdvd]

However, I will try a different brand of DVD-R to see if it was the particular media, or the particular format.

What brand of media (-R) was giving you problems?

[crjackson]

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