DVD Burner dying or Media bad?

[Vizcaya]

I have a couple different Pioneer drives on three different computers. I have used these burners a lot. I have burned at least 200 DVD's on each burner. I have always used TDK media with no problems.
What I am noticing is that my DVD's I have been burning Lately have had little freezes at different points of the DVD. I have reburned the DVD's with the freezes(which only last a second), and the remade DVD does not have the freeze at that point, but maybe at some other point.

I have never had the burner stop during the burn process with errors. I am using Tmpgenc DVD author to burn my video Ts folder.


Does anyone know what the symptoms are for a burner that is dying? And how many DVD's did it take to happen.

Thanks,
Vizcaya

[lordsmurf]

www.nomorecoasters.com for media info

Clean your burner too. IPA (alcohol) with a Q-TIP (cotton swab). Do not use a "cleaner" from the store.

[dxj40c]

Yes, cleaning is a good idea. My guess is media, it is possible to have a bad one or two every once in awhile. I've had two writers die, laser, and if you use nero you will start to get calibration error messages.