Burned DVD stopping after 1½hrs

[oahnve]

I have authored and burned a DVD-r which worked fine until I had watched 1½ hrs. Then it halted saying it couldn't read the disc.

I checked what people have been saying about my brand (Samsung m205) and it seems to have similar problems for some with SVCDs. I have never experienced a single problem and I have seen probably 50 SVCDs on it.

So what could the problem be except from the standalone? Could it be the burning software (Instant CD+DVD) or the authoring (Spruce) or even the encoding (I have tried to encode the movies in quite low quality, but I guess that couldn't affect the readability of the disc). Could it also be the quality of the disc?

[patten]

What program do you author with? (And version?)
What brand of media do you use?
It can be a combination of things.

Pat.

[oahnve]

I author with Spruce and I use the media brand sold by the Swedish site DVDNorden (they claim to sell only "high quality" media, and I have good experience from other stuff they sell, but I haven't used enough of their dvd's yet to really know what quality they are).

I thought of that the DVD that's freaking out is pretty much filled up, and I remember a warning in TMPGEnc or something like that saying that it might cause trouble. Might that be it? I put two movies on one dvd and it seems like one of them is doing alright while the second one is freaking at later parts...

I'm sure there are going to be special mental institutions for us trying to encode movies, concidering the amounts of time we (at least I) sit pulling my hair .