Anyone NOT test their burned DVDs?

[Yankee666666]

Im a newbie to this, but I have burned about 50 movies in the past few weeks. Ive had such great luck that every movie I have burned has been problem free. Im starting to get lazy and not test every movie and just assume they are ok. Im wondering if anyone else does this and whats the fastest and easiest way to test a burn. What i was doing before was fast forwarding for a bit on a few different chapters.

[johns0]

I always test my burns by fast forwarding with powerdvd all the tracks especially near the end,i can get a lot of good burns but once in awhile a dud will show up and im glad i do the test cause it saves me the time on capturing,ripping,encoding etc..

[Yankee666666]

I always test my burns by fast forwarding with powerdvd all the tracks especially near the end,i can get a lot of good burns but once in awhile a dud will show up and im glad i do the test cause it saves me the time on capturing,ripping,encoding etc..

When you say "all the tracks" do you mean each chapter?

[johns0]

By tracks i mean separate movie or clip tracks,if i have a dvd with 3 movies i scan all 3 movies which are on 3 different tracks.

[Yankee666666]

By tracks i mean separate movie or clip tracks,if i have a dvd with 3 movies i scan all 3 movies which are on 3 different tracks.

you mean 3 vcd movies on 1 dvd? Im talking about doing DVD to DVDR here.

[johns0]

3 1/2dvd movies(352x480) or one dvd movie on dvdr,dont make any difference,i check the same way.

[oldfart13]

I test in my Norcent DP-300. Computer software players are notorious for being forgiving and playing stuff that can't be played in standalones.
If my discs are going out to other people, I try to test on other standalones other than the Norcent which is also quite forgiving with many discs.

[ronnylov]

It depends of how important data I burn. If I burn just to watch it once then I don't care to test after burn. Normal movies I just verify once with the burning program.

If it is a backup of imporant stuff I make several test. I add quickpar files to be able to check and restore the data. I also verify the disc to the harddrive source data on both my burner and DVD-ROM unit. I check that no reding problems occurs with Nero DVD-speed or DVDinfopro. I do a K-probe scan in my Liteon DVD-ROM. If it's DVD-video I watch it on my standalone player and aldo fast forward through the movie to detect any hickups. And I burn two discs on different media brands so I have another backup copy before I delete the source files on my hard drive. Then I store the discs on different places like one at home and the another one at my parents home.

[Yankee666666]

If it is a backup of imporant stuff I make several test. I add quickpar files to be able to check and restore the data. I also verify the disc to the harddrive source data on both my burner and DVD-ROM unit. I check that no reding problems occurs with Nero DVD-speed or DVDinfopro. I do a K-probe scan in my Liteon DVD-ROM. If it's DVD-video I watch it on my standalone player and aldo fast forward through the movie to detect any hickups.

For movies does dvdinfo help to check it? Also how long do you fast forward on your standalone?

[PhreakPhish]

i juse load up windvd and skip to the end credits - sometimes i put it in my dvd player - but i started getting lazy b/c all of them are comming out perfect

[lordsmurf]

Yes. I don't test ALL discs. I don't have that much time on my hands. It's busy enough here as it is.

I find the best policy is quick check of last chapter in player, and randomly with PC software, then replace if bad.

[alexg26]

the best way of testing a dvd movie is playing it all the way, it may sound dum but i have done some tests and found out the hard way..
the mean thing is understand that what plays in your dvd player may not play in your friends.
I have a panasonic rv31 played a princo dvd-r(cold creek manor)movie freeze and the end and i burn it at 4000mb...
Toshiba sd 1200 played same movie played with no freeze...
Pioneer dv-505 played same movie with no freeze...
So i played it on my girlfriend panasonic rv-32 same movie freeze at the end..So i played it on my mom Malata DVP-500 and it play all the way...
So at the end i tested diffrent kind of dvd-r and it turn out that the best dvd-r that work on all the players i tested and more was the ritek disks and tdk blanks..
So now thats all the dvd-r blanks i buy, so the best way of testing a movie is on many diffrent players...

[Yankee666666]

Yes. I don't test ALL discs. I don't have that much time on my hands. It's busy enough here as it is.

I find the best policy is quick check of last chapter in player, and randomly with PC software, then replace if bad.

what do you mean by quick check of last chapter? Fast Forward thru the whole chapter?

[b1tchm4gn3t]

I have multiple puters so DVDINFOPRO works well for me. And time is no factor to me because it only takes a min to throw the dvdr into another puter and let it run the test. Results are accurate for me anyway...if dvdinfopro shows a problem....then there is one, if it dont show a problem...then there isnt. I dont know if that would work for everyone but it sure works for me.

[lordsmurf]

Yes. I don't test ALL discs. I don't have that much time on my hands. It's busy enough here as it is.

I find the best policy is quick check of last chapter in player, and randomly with PC software, then replace if bad.

what do you mean by quick check of last chapter? Fast Forward thru the whole chapter?

Nope. Skip to last one. If it plays fine for 30 seconds, I call it good.

[indolikaa]

Although using Taiyo Yuden discs and staying under 4GB tends to eliminate any problems, I check 'em anyway.

The last two minutes is usually sufficient.

[smb]

Like lordsmurf I only check the last few minutes. I have been burning for over a year now and after 100's of discs only a handful of coasters

[BSR]

I too jump to the last chapter and then fast forward to the end of the movie.
FYI: I've had RWs that would skip near the end, but the -+R created from that disc would be fine.
Seems to depend on how much I fill the disk.

[ronnylov]

If it is a backup of imporant stuff I make several test. I add quickpar files to be able to check and restore the data. I also verify the disc to the harddrive source data on both my burner and DVD-ROM unit. I check that no reding problems occurs with Nero DVD-speed or DVDinfopro. I do a K-probe scan in my Liteon DVD-ROM. If it's DVD-video I watch it on my standalone player and aldo fast forward through the movie to detect any hickups.

For movies does dvdinfo help to check it? Also how long do you fast forward on your standalone?

If the speed test in dvdinfopro is fine (no hickups in the speed curve) then it should work fine in my DVD-ROM unit at least. I think that is important if I ever need to backup my copy to a new disc.

I fast forward through the complete movie, from start to end, at the fastest speed on my standalone player. But this extended verification is only done on important stuff, like my backups of my familys old home videos.

[Hardcoreruss]

I always test my burns by fast forwarding with powerdvd all the tracks especially near the end,i can get a lot of good burns but once in awhile a dud will show up and im glad i do the test cause it saves me the time on capturing,ripping,encoding etc..

I test exactly the same as Johns0

[Yankee666666]

I have multiple puters so DVDINFOPRO works well for me. And time is no factor to me because it only takes a min to throw the dvdr into another puter and let it run the test. Results are accurate for me anyway...if dvdinfopro shows a problem....then there is one, if it dont show a problem...then there isnt. I dont know if that would work for everyone but it sure works for me.

How long does DVDINFOPRO take to run the test?

[b1tchm4gn3t]

How long does DVDINFOPRO take to run the test?

Just a few minutes...maybe 10-15 tops.

[Yankee666666]

How long does DVDINFOPRO take to run the test?

Just a few minutes...maybe 10-15 tops.

Will that work on a store bought DVD like to test it for scratches that will affect playback? If not whats the best way to test for that?

[b1tchm4gn3t]

IMO...whether it is scratched or a bad burn, it does the same thing, which is check for read errors. I really dont think it matters how. It just tells you the bad sectors and blocks on the dvd.

[toronto098]

Initially I did test them. Bust after over 100 DVDs, non of them were bad, and the cost for the blanks is not such an issue now, why bother?

FYI, I did have some coasters, but they were media error, not burnt error.

[Sabro]

Actually I perfer to have all my burns reviewed completely, but as with most of you, I don't always have the time to do this myself.

My solution :

I have some older, retired family members which tend to have alot of their retired friends visit. Their thrilled to be able to see the movie(s), and either give me the thumbs up or down on the quality (sometimes without actually knowing its a burn).

I could always rent a few of these expirenced, nitpicky 'seniors' out for those those that need Quality Assurance reviews, for a small nonimal fee of course :P

Sabro

[SatStorm]

If I don't have time, I check the last chapter of the last track of a burned project on my DVD standalone. I fast forword it a bit also, just to see that ends OK.

@ indolikaa: I burn only Taiyo Yuden discs, full 4.36GB and beyond the fact that I never experienced any coaster, I never - ever had that skipping after 3.8GB, as some Ritec users report.

I think this 3.8GB use to be a practical rule for those older cheaper media and those who burned 1X at 2X or those 2X discs capable to burned at 4X

I never ever had an issue with 4X Taiyo Yuden's burned with an old good Pioneer 105 at 4X, using Nero Express 1 and authored with TMPGenc Author. And in a year, I had burned about 200 discs so far (old transfers from CVDs/xVCDs & new projects from DVB sources). Maybe I was lucky? I don't think so! It is the media that helps the situation...