Nero problems

[pazor]

Hi guys and gals
Just started having a problem today and i dont know why hope you lot can may be shed some light on it.
I have been burning copys of my orignal dvd's,
been using dvd2one which i find a real great app and then nero to for burning the VIDEO_TS files into a dvd.
prob made about 100
but today for some reason nero kept killing the dvd's saying that pain in the butt mess power calibartion error.
i have a nec 1300a which is flashed to the up todate version on 1300c somet like that.
just downloaded another app called imgtool and that seems to be burning the vob files ok.
any idea why nero has just stoped working ?
i aint installed any new programs just burned a dvd went to bed come home from work and now it dont work
thx in advance
pazor

[SCDVD]

I had a similar problem. I had been using Nero for over a year without a problem and then suddenly it became very sick. I realized that I had recently upgraded to Windows SP2. So just to see what would happen, I uninstalled Nero and then reinstalled it. I had heard that after SP2 is installed, some applications get sick. After I reinstalled Nero, I had no further problems.

[pazor]

Prob is i aint done anything with my pc..
i have unistalled nero and put on verision 6.3 and same problem..
what is this power callibration thing ?

[jimmalenko]

I'd do a search on all forums for power calibration and you'll find 1000's of posts. Normally this error means your burner doesn't like your media.

[pazor]

mmm update is my dvdr wont burn at 4x now..
nero is burning ok at 2x but every disk i have left gets power calibration error.
i hate pc's

[jimmalenko]

your burner's fine - it's your media.

[pazor]

thats what i thought but its a spindle of 100 and yes i know there rubbiish orange bulkpac..
i have just counted them and 80 of them have been burned ok just the 20 left and i have tryed about 60% of them and same prob ..
but maybe your right,
been thinking about looking at some better disks but trying to find some at the same price of the bulkcrap sorry bulkpaq

[jimmalenko]

what happens is that on the cheaper discs, the quality control as well as the manufacturing process leave a lot to be desired, so what happens is you can get vast variations from spindle to spindle in terms of the number of usable discs. The difference between manufacturers IMO is the number of coasters per spindle - the good brands contain few if any poorly-manufactured discs, whereas the cheap brands normally have a higher percentage of poor discs. That said, by higher percentage I mean that even the cheapest of cheap media will generally have 95 or more perfectly fine discs in every spindle.

So the cheaper the discs = the more coasters per spindle as a general rule, but YMMV.