DVD writer problem

[marceggers]

After an enjoyable year of creating SVCD I decided to move up the food chain and begin burning to DVD. So I purchased and installed a Pioneer DVR-A06 to replace my CD burner.
The new unit reads just fine. My system recognized it as new hardware immediately. However, I am unable to burn anything. I go thru the usual sequence of events that I used to create my SVCDs, but when I go to burn them onto a DVD or onto a CD they don't burn. The funny thing is that all the steps indicate to me that everything is just fine. It doesn't matter if I'm trying to burn video or MP3 music. No indication that something is not being accepted, yet the finished discs are blank.
Did I neglect to do something important when I installed the DVR-A06? My system manager tells me that the DVR-A06 is operating. Thanks.

[vmixa]

Sorry - can't help, but, i have similar problem with Sony DRU510a. I, too, go through the usual sequence of events of authoring and caching files and transcoding, but the the burner just does not burn the final dvd.

I did manage to get the burner to burn data in nero after a full, clean reinstall of win2kpro sp3. But still no dvd authoring.

Good luck with your A06.

[maveric4001]

First check and make sure that your burn software is set to burn dvd and not cdr and that you dont have the test burn function selected.
Some burn software allows you to do a test write first without actually writing to the disk, it will go through the burn procces but disk is left blank.

[FOO]

And that is usually a very persistent default.

[mkelley]

This is just a wild guess (although I think the previous poster is closer to the truth about the software not actually set to burn) but remember that DVD burning is NOT the same as burning a CD or VCD. For one thing, there is a very specific structure that must be present in order to burn a DVD that will play on a standalone player -- to whit, you need the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders, and all your files (your VOB files) need to be in that VIDEO_TS folder.

Burning a data disk is another matter, but you don't say what you're trying to do, how you're creating the data, or what software you're using to burn. In general the DVD process goes like this: you use an authoring program to create those VOB files in the two relevent folders, and then you burn them to disk using a software mode that correctly recognizes those two folders and then arranges the disk so it can be played. I use Record Now on both my Sony as well as my Pioneer 106, and it works great and is idiot proof (very good for me :>)

If you run through more of what you're doing it would help us troubleshoot your problem.