Ford Expedition issue playing burnt DVDs

[sawbo1]

I've seen some old posts on this item before, but it did not work for me. I have a 2003 Ford Expedition with the DVD player (no idea what make it is - no one seems to. It could be Delphi - who knows). The old post said to rip with DVD Shrink 3.2 and use the auto burn with Nero, which I've done. The DVD will not play in the car, it spits it out with a 'bad disk' message. I've tried DVD-R and DVD+R, memorex and Sony. I just tried with a TDK+R, nothing. They play on other players and the PC. Can someone shed any light on this?

[smitbret]

Probably just an older DVD player that won't play those formats. Most likely, you'll have to burn to DVD+R and booktype it to DVD-ROM. May require a new DVD Burner that has booktype capability.
-Brett

[sawbo1]

How would I booktype a DVD? Both my PC's are new.

[Sifaga]

i would try different media

maybe ring the car dealer they may suggest a brand of dvd

try different burn methods, burn with dvddecrypter or imgburn

i think its trial and error to find a disc that will play in your ford

[sawbo1]

I have used DVDdecrypter but have only burnt with Nero. I've seen some posts here that said it worked, but I've had no luck so far.

[smitbret]

You're Burner has to support booktyping (also known as bitsetting). It is only used with DVD+R media, not DVD-R. Some older DVD players only support standard DVD-ROMs, so the burner "tricks" the player into thinking the DVD+R is really a DVD-ROM. Most Lite-On, Plextor and Benq drives support it. I don't know about NEC or some of the others. No Pioneer drives do. You need to find out what kind of burner you have. The easiest thing in my opinon is go to www.belarc.com and download their Belarc Advisor. Run it and it will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about your computer, including what kind of burner you have. Once that's done, there are several tools out there like DVDinfoPro, Qsuite, etc., that are used to set the drive to write DVD+R discs to be read as DVD-ROMs. This can be done through Nero and DVD Decrypter, too. Let us know what drive you have and I'm sure we can get this done for ya. Good Luck.
-Brett

[sawbo1]

It says my drive is TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-L532M [CD-ROM drive]

[InXess]

It's a Samsung. You need to try on another burner a DVD-R or DVD+R booktyped to DVD-ROM. Check your PC manuf for DVD drive specs. but other Samsungs do support bitsetting.

read this page:
http://www.cdfreaks.com/article/275/2

check for Samsung firmware update

lastly your car's DVD may be incompatible with many (or most) DVD-/+R, subject requires lots of patience

[sawbo1]

Just wanted to let you all know that I successfully burnt and played a DVD in the Expedition. I ripped the DVD and left the region intact. It seems that the DVD player in the Expedition only plays region 1 DVDs.

[InXess]

that was simple... good thinking

[sawbo1]

I was wrong about the region code. It was the shrink (DVDShrink) which was causing the issue. I bought some double laayer disks, rip with DVDDecrypter in ISO mode, and all DVDs are playing perfectly.

[chas0039]

I would be very surprised if that had anything to do with the problem. You should switch to better media and add a better burner. TY, Verbatim, the Pioneer 111, the LG 4167, and the BenQ 1655 would be good choices. I think your player in the Ford is just picky and the quality of your burning is having problems.