DVD failing to burn numerous times!!!

[berry1]

Ok, so i've been trying to burn a movie to a dvd-r for 3 days now and it keeps failing even when using the windows burning software. I have tried DVDflick, Imgburn and Windows burning software. Now failed on 10 disks and only bought a spindle of 20 . Originally converted the movie from mp4 to VOB with free MP4 to VOB converter and burnt the VOB file to a disk. The disk burnt without problems but shown as a mixed media disk on the xbox and was unreadable on the dvd player. Then i read that burning a straight vob file wont create a working dvd and that you need a mix of files for it to be read as a DVD. So then i open DVDflick and begin to convert the original MP4 file, conversion takes 3hours 39mins and still wont burn to the damn disk. In the file DVDflick created there are various files and 2 folders titled AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS. So today i try again to burn using imgburn, i added the full folder with the 2 sub folders to imgburn and attepted to burn but got a error again. The original movie in MP4 was only 700MB but the folders DVDflick made are 4.31 GB! the disk is only 4.7GB. Thanks in advance and if someone could help, would be appreciated.

[Kerry56]

The actual amount you can put on a single layer dvd is about 4.37gb, so your video made by Flick is the correct size.

Your problem is in the dvd discs you are trying to use. The ImgBurn error tells you this: Medium Error

I generally recommend Verbatim 16x blank discs. Get the ones with AZO on the label of the cakebox, and do not buy Verbatim "Life Series" discs. You can find Verbatim online at Amazon, Rima, Supermediastore and other sites. Locally you might find some at Best Buy if you are lucky. You can also buy Taiyo Yuden blank dvds online, and I recommend their 8x +R discs.

With your laptop burner, I'd try setting the burning speed to 4 or 6x.

[Wolfen]

Before you burn it to disc make a dvd folder on your HDD and then try to play it in potplayer or whatever you use that can play dvd folders and see if it is the conversion. Maybe try a different program, Freemake video converter will convert movie files and burn them to dvd and even Blu-Ray.

[berry1]

Hi Kerry, thanks for the advice. Now i know the problem, can go out and buy some new disks, the only problem is im in the uk so don't think we have them brands over here. Guess i should give a more expensive brand a try.
Tried again with the disks and managed to get a complete burn but the disk still reads as mixed media guess they are just crap disks lol.
so when i get some more disks is it correct to just add the complete folder to imgburn? the complete folder that DVDflick made with the 2 sub folders VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS?
Thanks!

The actual amount you can put on a single layer dvd is about 4.37gb, so your video made by Flick is the correct size.

Your problem is in the dvd discs you are trying to use. The ImgBurn error tells you this: Medium Error

I generally recommend Verbatim 16x blank discs. Get the ones with AZO on the label of the cakebox, and do not buy Verbatim "Life Series" discs. You can find Verbatim online at Amazon, Rima, Supermediastore and other sites. Locally you might find some at Best Buy if you are lucky. You can also buy Taiyo Yuden blank dvds online, and I recommend their 8x +R discs.

With your laptop burner, I'd try setting the burning speed to 4 or 6x.

[berry1]

Ok just installed potplayer and opened the movie, runs perfectly including all the menus and stuff. Possibly with microsoft being American that the burning software on windows didn't burn the dvd to PAL? which could be why the one successful burn ain't working on my dvd player.
Thanks!

Before you burn it to disc make a dvd folder on your HDD and then try to play it in potplayer or whatever you use that can play dvd folders and see if it is the conversion. Maybe try a different program, Freemake video converter will convert movie files and burn them to dvd and even Blu-Ray.

[Kerry56]

DVDFlick can be set to output to either PAL or NTSC. I'm not certain which one is default, if you haven't looked at the settings.

I prefer AVStoDVD for this task, since it can use the HC encoder. It too can produce PAL or NTSC standard dvds. And it is free to use like Flick.

And yes, you can add the entire folder as input into ImgBurn. It should recognize that you are burning dvd-video.

[hech54]

Ok just installed potplayer and opened the movie, runs perfectly including all the menus and stuff. Possibly with microsoft being American that the burning software on windows didn't burn the dvd to PAL? which could be why the one successful burn ain't working on my dvd player.
Thanks!

The burning software or Microsoft has NOTHING to do with NTSC and PAL.
Computers don't care about NTSC or PAL.
European DVD players normally don't care about NTSC or PAL....European players can normally play both and European TVs can usually also play both.....unless one or the other is over 10 years old.

[sanlyn]

Hi Kerry, thanks for the advice. Now i know the problem, can go out and buy some new disks, the only problem is im in the uk so don't think we have them brands over here.

Verbatim is a world-wide brand, sold everywhere. http://www.amazon.co.uk/tag/verbatim/products

[Steve(MS)]

berry1, what is the write-speed set to in imgburn?

[manono]

berry1, what is the write-speed set to in imgburn?

In the picture it says 2X.

[Kerry56]

He is burning Ritek F1 discs now. I tried some not too long ago, and didn't have any complete failures, but its hard to tell what quality you are going to get just going by that mid code. Of the four burners I have hooked up, only one would burn them with decent results, and it was my old LG blu ray burner.

Using them in a laptop is just playing Russian roulette. Think how bad things are going to get when the manufacturers start dropping production of full sized burners over the next year, as they seem to be planning. Guess it won't matter to many though, as burning discs is becoming a quaint, old fashioned method of data storage.

[berry1]

Been busy with things so haven't had a auful lot of time to play around with the burning. Anyway thanks all for the advice! i managed to successfully burn tesco dvd-rs using freemake video converter, thanks for that suggestion .

The burnt dvds play really well on my xbox and dvd player but for some reason wont play on the laptop tried updating the drivers for the disk drive and even uninstalling/reinstalling the drivers but still no luck. The dvds as said play perfectly just not on the laptop. The laptop shows the dvds as blank dvd-rs and says they are empty. Not sure how this can be as they are dvd-rs not dvd-rws, but any help, advice on that would be great

[theewizard]

do you mean dvd 'ram' disc
many drives do not like dvd 'ram' discs

[transporterfan]

I use Maxell brand a lot, and prefer them to many others. Never had a problem. Both DVD and CD have NEVER thrown a burn error.