Alright, I am at a complete loss here. I am hoping to God someone has had this experience because I am out of ideas.
I have a HP 840i DL DVD burner. Used it for countless DVDs that I rendered and burned from Pinnacle Studio. Everything was fine.
Now...I don't even know how to get into this....any DL DVD I put into the drive gets ruined.
Pinnale refuses to burn to it; Pinnacle will render and then say "writing to disc/compiling disc" and takes about a 1/100th of a second to do this and basically does nothing. However, the disc is now ruined. It will not play in the DVD player I have been using with the TV for months.
If I put a finished DVD in the drive as a test, it says it is a blank CD and that the drive is inaccesible. Further, thinking it was the drive I replaced it with a new 840i and then a new Sony DL burner. None of the units will recognize a completed DVD and on top of that, just by putting the DVD into any of the drives to try and open it, that DVD will now not play on my DVD player. Nevermind that one minute before it was a healthy, viewable DVD on the player.
What the heck is going on here?! Does anyone have any ideas. Please help as this is happening at a really horrible time and I am under the gun to get two projects burned. It doesn't look like it's Pinnacle because this happens when I try to use "Record Now" with a DL disc and I could swear that last time I tried this "Record Now" accepted DL DVDs for data discing. Also, if it was Studio, finished DVDs would play in the player regardless of whether Studio had ever touched it. Please help!!!
Thank you.
Mike H.
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Not sure how much of a help this is but i had the EXACT same problem a couple of years ago. Brand new media; relatively new burner (6wks max); not the same software but i dont think that that is the issue anyway and yet i had ALL of the problems you've just described. It turned out that the problem lay with a faulty laser on the drive. I took it back and installed another-same problems again. Now thinking it was highly likely a bad batch!
This time i returned it, got a refund and then swapped it for a Liteon. Worked perfectly. -
I don't remember all the exact programs and steps, but check cdfreaks.com (forum), and there is an article on how to make DL dvd's. So far, Verbatim is the only recommended DL dvd's that work with any consistency, and very few softwares do the layer breaks correctly. I don't bother with DL yet, so I don't know the particulars, but the info is available at the site I recommended. Just search the forum...
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pooty13901, in the future please use a more descriptive subject title in your posts to allow others to search for similar topics. I will change yours this time. From our rules:
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Any time I get tempted to use DL DVDs I read threads like this.
XP
Intel Celeron D 335 Prescott 2.8GHz Socket 478 Pro
600GB
2G
ATI Radeon X1600 Pro
GIGABYTE GA-8I848P-G Socket 478 Intel 848P ATX Int
Lite-On DVD SOHD-16P9S
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Originally Posted by jmkeuning
I'm sure it can be done and done well but just too many issues.
- John "FulciLives" Coleman"The eyes are the first thing that you have to destroy ... because they have seen too many bad things" - Lucio Fulci
EXPLORE THE FILMS OF LUCIO FULCI - THE MAESTRO OF GORE
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Thanks redwudz,
And I apologize for that. I'm so frustrated by all this I didn't even think as I wrote.
Others:
The two HP drives I tried were not of the same batch as they were purchased some 6-7 months apart. I have reloaded Pinnacle Studio as a last resort. Last time I burned a movies I turned off my AVG protection and then all this happened. I don't know.
Mike H, -
Perhaps you can tell us what you're up to.
You mention being under the gun... can you just put these projects on Single Layer DVDs using DVDShrink?
I had a bunch of videos that I was gonna try some DLs but ended up using DVDShrink.
Love it.XP
Intel Celeron D 335 Prescott 2.8GHz Socket 478 Pro
600GB
2G
ATI Radeon X1600 Pro
GIGABYTE GA-8I848P-G Socket 478 Intel 848P ATX Int
Lite-On DVD SOHD-16P9S
Hauppauge WINTV-PVR-150 PCI Interface Tuner Card -
Drastic I know but if I were you I would back up all your data and do a re-install of windows. I mean reformat/reinstall. Start fresh and clean. That should fix it assuming the problem is not a hardware issue.
- John "FulciLives" Coleman"The eyes are the first thing that you have to destroy ... because they have seen too many bad things" - Lucio Fulci
EXPLORE THE FILMS OF LUCIO FULCI - THE MAESTRO OF GORE
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