Liteon 16H5S written DVD's slow to initialise to menu in players

[Sonic2171]

Hello

Until 2 weeks ago I was using a Benq 1620 (it died). I have since bought a Liteon 16H5S everything seems to work OK, but when I try to play the DVD's in any of my players you can hear the mechanism searching about trying various speeds and positions for about 1-2 minutes (depends on the player) before the menu screen is displayed, everything then plays, searches, seeks chapters without problems.

I do not have this problem with any bought or Benq written discs.

I have updated the firmware to LS0W, tried various makes of media, Verbatim/HP/Infiniti etc (MMC/Ritek/CMC), written at different speeds nothing makes any improvement, the scans in Kprobe/DVD Speed are no worse than the Benq's.

DVD-R's are worst DVD+R is better; strangely DVD-RW's are best!

Do you think the drive is faulty? It is the only conclusion I have come to.

Any ideas?

Typical scan:

[Sonic2171]

All OK I've cured the problem!!

[LCSHG]

What was the Problem

[iamaran]

Please let me know the solution, as I am having this problem too. Very annoying it is too. Am using same firmware as you. Thanks very much.