SVCD stalls on final phase, every burning program

[Lep]

This is from CDR-Win.
It does this in Nero and Fireburner too. I'm using an 80 minute cd, so I can't figure out what the problem is. It just gets to the end phase and SITS there. I can leave it for an hour and it'll still be there. Can anybody tell me what's going on, or what I can do?

I've used several different kinds of CDs, none work. I can burn VCD's fine.

Thank you.

[sommersby]

I think you may be exceding the limit of your media, 79:51 is really pushing the amount you can fit on a disk, I think the best I have ever seen as far as 80 min capacity disks using the media report in nero is 79:20 or so, I would sugest editing out a minute or so if you can or trying a 90 or 99 min cdr instead, that is what cdrwin and fireburner do when they run out of room doing the leadout, they stall with no error shown.

[Lep]

Thanks for the reply. I cut it down to about 78 minutes and tried to burn it with Fireburner. It gave me the same old problems, and upon ejecting the CD to see if it just MIGHT have burned it, I see that there's still "595 megs" left on the CD.

Why it didn't burn much at all (even though it was at the end of the writing in Fireburner), I don't know.

I don't know what to do. I'm beginning to think I'll never be able to burn an SVCD

[dicadad]

i'm not a guru but a learning newbie. this is one of the things i do when i dl bad(?) bin/cues from usenet and seems to fix about 95%
1 use vcdgear and select vue/bin -> mpeg or cdmage to dat then convert the dat to mpg with mpeg-corrector

2 use mpegprop to see if it's 480x480 or the tool of your choice

3 use vcdimagergui, selecting a svcd or vcdgear 'videocd mpeg->cue/bin

4 i have firburn and cdrwin but i tend to use fireburn. if you use nero to 'burn image' make sure in the prefs/expert tab you have all the overburn stuff selected. (the nero website has the overburn stats by cdburner.) then when nero says 'overburn...damage...' click yes.

my yamaha will overburn to 82 and has no problems at 81+ knock od plastic. i also use CDRIdentifier which tells me mfg,dye timeblah blah about the cd media. it's a cool tool. i use it to check dyes before i use a batch for multimedia, i think it's freeware?? if i should upload letme know or email to also. or ftp??

anyway that's a couple of the paths i use with some degree of success. all software and knowledge came from here
(thankyou god) or from doom, another awesome site

there ya go
dicadad

[Lep]

Hey guys, thanks alot for the replies -- but, I got it to work!
And I'm damn happy.

What it took was a new burner, altogether. 4X was getting old, so I went out and got a TDK 32x (my old burner was Hewlett-Packard). Not only is it fast, it burnt the CDs - and they look awesome on my TV.

Thanks alot for trying to help. Hopefully if anybody else comes across this problem they'll know what to do. It'll cost 'em, though.