Burned DVD will not play

[Evelyn Tremble]

Ok here we go. This will probably, hopefully is an easy fix. The Dvd’s that I burn will not play anywhere else except on the actual burner that burned the damn movie in the first place. SUX. I use DVD shrink; I burn with Nero 6.6.0.5 I burn on an I OMEGA SUPER DVD Lite on DVDRW SHOW-1633S. I run win XP Home Edition version 2002 with service pack 2 with Pentium 4 1.72 ghz 640mb ram etc etc..My machine is scrubbed super clean with no virus’s spyware nor anything else bad. Now here is the interesting thin, it used to work. I could burn a dvd and watch it anywhere, now I cannot. What the FUG changed? I have deleted Nero and reinstated it. Still same problem as for media I use. Sony DVD+R ver 1.2/1x-8x… I burned many films on these disks beautifully. Then NADA! Sick of this…is it my burner, is it NeRO? Is it sun spots???????????? let me know what I am overlooking… thank you kindly… Evelyn T.

[dcsos]

Sick of this…is it my burner, is it NeRO?

I think its your media.
Try another brand of BLANK and repost

If its still no-go
1.LOOK FOR FIRMWARE UPDATE FOR YER BURNER
2.Look at "NERO INFO TOOL" and see if ASPI is properly installed.
3.Try a different shrinking program like CloneDVD, Nero Recode & CladDVD or such

[MOVIEGEEK]

Also try burning with DVDDecrypter.

[steve2713]

Good advice above - consider your media, burn with DVD Decrypter (you can ouput from DVD Shrink as an ISO image), consider updating your burner's FW (liteon DVD burners can be picky about media).

[davemcg37]

sounds like ur not finalizing your dvdr after ur burn. its a setting in nero

[Evelyn Tremble]

Incredible, absurd, incogitable, inconceivable, outlandish ... but TRUE! it was the dog gone media! but how? if it worked once... why would it all of a sudden decide not to work? I don't get it.. how Persnickety!! I can't immagine.. I guess some things are best left unknown.. like how sausages are made.... or laws...

[BetaMaster]

I guessed "media" as well. DVD burners are generally also very good readers. Here is a true story. I was capturing an image on Isobuster, when I put the DVD+RW in my generic DVD-Rom drive, it finished with over 900 errors. I tried it again in my Lite-on DVD burner, and it came out with about 100 (high, but liveable). As such, when I burn a DVD in my burner, the first place I put it is in the DVD-Rom drive. If it doesn't work there, it's not going to work generally.

It appears drives vary in their ability to properly read media. With commercially pressed media, it's never a problem - the number of errors you encounter approaches zero. However, with burned media, depending on the quality of the burn, the disc may have a few hundred errors scattered along the disc (which can be easily handled by the error correction routines), or a few hundred iffy spots in a sector. Even a good stand-alone DVD player probably isn't good enough to read that many errors, even at 1X. However, your DVD burner is designed to handle that kind of media (as it often has to deal with media with no info at all).