Why can I not burn DVDs that play in my standalone DVD player?

[bmoreravyns]

Ok heres all the info. I was able to burn quite a few episodes of certain shows onto a DVD with menus and everything and I was able to view them on my DVD player. They were all .avi files and were encoded and burned with no problem. Then I bought some new discs (3 different brands) and am not able to burn anything. Well actually the Nero Vision program will say the burn completed successfully and you can see where it burned on the physical disc, but the computer does not recognize it or the DVD player either. I have tried a few different burning programs and also converted the .avi files to DVD files. Also tried building an iso file and burned it that way. Still my DVD player will not recognize it. I am using Verbatim 16x DVD+R discs which were highly recommended for DVD burning. Also, my DVD player has the DIVX logo on it so maybe I need to burn them with DIVX? Any help would be greatly appreciated because I am wasting too many discs. Thank You.

[louv68]

Try using ImgBurn.

[bmoreravyns]

I used Imgburn to burn the Video_ts folder onto the disc but it still does not play

[louv68]

What program are you using to convert the .avi's to DVD? If you convert them with no menu, will the titles play? Something with your menu's may not be DVD compliant.

EDIT
Do the converted DVD files off the HDD play back on a software player? If not, try converting one of the titles without menus, and burn onto an RW to test.

[jman98]

Best guesses...
1) Your burner is going bad.
2) You aren't finalizing the discs.

If you are sure you are finalizing the discs, the burner could be going bad.
I've got a burner that is starting to give me similar problems and it will have to be replaced it. I noticed it first last week when I made a DVD from a TV show I recorded and it burned fine, but neither of my 2 DVD players would play the disc. I put it on my PC and only the burner I used to burn it could recognize the disc, so I had rip it and burn it with my other burner and that was fine. Burners do go bad.

To make a Divx disc you simply burn the AVI files to a data disc, but they may or may not play on a DVD player even if burned correctly depending on what options were used to encode them.

[bmoreravyns]

Just out of curiousity I was able to burn a bunch of pictures and one of the Avi clips onto a DVD+R as a data disc, so i don't know if the burner is going bad or not

[jman98]

I thought my burns were OK too as they played fine on a PC. It was only later that I found that ONLY the burner I used to make them could read them as that was what I used to test the burn on a PC before trying to play it on my 2 DVD players.

[tomlee59]

Also try burning at a slower speed. If, as seems to be possible (even likely), your laser is getting weak, burning slower can help a lot. If that does fix things, realize that this is a stopgap workaraound, and that a new burner is in your future.

[bmoreravyns]

can i still use the 16x disks and burn at a slower speed? Should i upgrade the firmware to accomadate the 16x disks or can I just use the 16x disks and burn them at a lower speed since my burner is older?

[nic2k4]

Yes you can burn 16x discs at lower speed, actually if you put the disc in the burner before NVE tells you to, when you click the drop menu for the burn speed you will see all the speeds that your burner support for that disc.

When you burn DVD movies you should use lower speeds, I use 4x up to 8x is ok. It's like it was with music CDs.

Have you always used DVD+R discs? How old is your DVD player? Older players had poor support for DVD+R discs, you could sometimes get around the problem by changing the booktype to DVD-ROM.

[bmoreravyns]

I did a firmware upgrade on my dvd burner and the issue seems to be solved. However the burning does not seem consistent. I have Maxell 16x DVD+R and Verbatim 16x DVD+R blank discs. I tried to burn a dvd using both kinds of disks with Ulead DVD Movie factory Plus. The maxell plays in my DVD player with no problem but the Verbatim (which is supposed to be one of the best brands) does not play in the DVD player. I get a blue screen that looks like it has a folder on it but nothing is in the folder.

[louv68]

Search your player on the left under DVD Players to see what others' have to say about the machine. Maybe it doesn't play Verbatim +R (dvd id ????). You also said you burned them with Ulead DVD Movie factory. I'm a believer in ImgBurn. Have you tried a test burn with it after updating your firmware? I'd also booktype to DVD-ROM if your writer is capable of it.

[DaveBJones]

I have been reading many forums this week going back roughly 7 years. everyone has the same problem, copying DVDs doesnt work very well and everyone has the same sort of fix. Seven years ago it was just the same. change the disks and change the programme. However for this particular problem it might be that the UDF (Universal Disk Format) you used to burn isnt recognised by the DVD player- only your PC system. Possibly the PC is burning UDF 1.5 or higher while the dvd player uses UDF 1.02. This was sugested by a few sites and a description of UDF is given in Wikipedia

My problem is much the same but I get about 3/4 of the way throuh a film when it stops.
The fiolms are my own that I am copzing so no issues of copyright protection.