At my wits end,Cant figure out DVD burning,any tips???

[Bigredno8]

I have 2 dvd players that I use to test DVDs I download and burn (Using Video_TS Folders),one is a standalone Apex dvd player I bought from Wal-Mart the other is a Panasonic TV/VCR/DVD combo model PV-DM2093,the TV states it can play DVD-R (depending on recording conditions) what ever that means,ok downloaded my first movie,burned it onto a DVD+R,using trial NERO 6 plus a compliation I downloaded from one of the messages here,and works fine,but now I keep getting messages that the DVD player doesnt play my DVD disks anymore,I have burned movies on a DVD-R,DVD+R & DVD+RW with absolutely no luck at all,sometimes it stops before even playing other times it gives me the above mentioned error,but it will play in the APEX dvd player,my burner is a LITE-ON DVD Dual ReWriter: LDW-411S & Im using Memorex DVD-R & DVD+R DVDs,can anyone offer some kind of tips or suggestions that may help me solve my problem,I find it hard to believe that the TV played the first DVD+R I created,but now wont play anything

Thanks
Steve

[Bigredno8]

bumpity bump bump

[ebenton]

I would suspect your problem is a combination of Memorex DVD-R (made by CMC, which are CRAP) and the fact that you did not mention whether your player(s) will play DVD +R. Memorex DVD +R is usually made by RICOH, which is pretty good media. Maybe one player won't read DVD-R (on crappy media) and your other player won't read DVD +R on any media.
Check the "DVD Players" list to the left and the "DVD Media" list also.

I have also read that some Memorex DVD +R disks are now being made by CMC, which would also make the +R disks crap, as well.

[Kopy King]

Downloading movies may be the problem, are you sure they are Dvd complient.

[FOO]

I wanna know how long it takes to download a DVD.

[lordsmurf]

I wanna know how long it takes to download a DVD.

Somebody wanted to e-mail me a DVD one time. I don't know what he was thinking... if he was thinking.

[agee]

what firmware version is your 411s...I got one too and Before I even bought it, i learn that out of the box, the burner have issues with many media...if you haven't upgrade the firmware, I suggest you do it...

if you did, then what you're using is bad file...I've never ever download a dvd file from the internet...ain't that long???

[bottle-necked]

I wanna know how long it takes to download a DVD.

I'm on cable and just run a speed test. It's getting 2.557Mbps. If that DVD was 4.4G I could download it in about 4 hours. (give or take a few minutes). I sometimes see as much as 525KB/s download rate. But... I'm not going to download no stupid movie. 4 hours of pleasure and 20 years hard labor. (or something like that).

My first experience online was with a Intel 486-SX33 on AOL @ 1,200 baud. Everything was text based and all the downloads available were DOS programs. 'We've come a long way baby', for sure.


Here's a screenshot of my toast.net/performance speed test. It's about a 40k 'download'.

http://www.freepichosting.com/Images/137397/0.jpg?x=1002

[lordsmurf]

I'm on cable and just run a speed test. It's getting 2.557Mbps. If that DVD was 4.4G I could download it in about 4 hours

Don't confuse megabytes with megabits per second. BITS and far less and slower than BYTES. I would take all day, maybe two days or more, to grab a full DVD online. Even with you being connected to an unfettered T1/T3/OC82/whatever server.

[FOO]

Looks to me like it takes 6 hours on an unloaded T1

edit: bytes are exactly 8 times slower than bits

[bottle-necked]

2.557 million bits per second connection. divided by 8 = .319625 million bytes per second rate. (319KB/s)

4.4G movie (backup copy of course) divided by .319625 MB/s = 13766 seconds. or 3.8 hours. See I wasn't so far off. I said 4 hours.

In a real world download I see a lot of 229KB/s (instead of that 319KB/s above) so if would probably take around 5.3 hours to do.

But the way internet traffic is sometimes it might take as long as 9.6 hours (127KB/s). I see that rate sometimes too.

So I suppose it would depend on internet traffic. But if that download was on good server it would take less than 10 hours I'd say anyway.

I know what a bit is. Thats why I typed it that way. (Mbps) instead of (MB/s).

Later.

[Bigredno8]

What is firmware? and how would I go about upgrading it,

downloading can take a little time,but I have a cable modem and its not too bad,the problem is I use Agent when downloading and sometimes the temp files,get too full and the program wont download any more until I clean it up

Steve

what firmware version is your 411s...I got one too and Before I even bought it, i learn that out of the box, the burner have issues with many media...if you haven't upgrade the firmware, I suggest you do it...

if you did, then what you're using is bad file...I've never ever download a dvd file from the internet...ain't that long???

[Bigredno8]

Nevermind,I should have known to check the LITEON website,gonna to upgrade the firmware and see what happens

Thanks
Steve