Problem with DVD-RW's in A04?

[sLiMpAuLy]

Hi again!

I have been having great success lately with my projects and have been skipping the "test" phase of my authoring (not burning on a rw disc first) I have just been using DVD-R's and they are all comeing out of the burner fine. So .........I was trying something new, I wanted to take a 30 min documentory and put it on DVD for a freind. I wanted to get creative so I decided to do a normal vhs capture and then take that file and re-encode to a 16:9 ratio so I could put both 3:4 and 16:9 on the disc.
I decided since this was new water for me I better burn a test disc first, so after I completed authoring the DVD I put in my trusty pioneer DVDRW and kept getting a burn fail error saying fingerprints or bad disc (tried nero and record now max) So I opened a BRAND NEW pioneer DVD-RW and put it in.......SAME THING SAME ERROR!!!

So just for shits and giggles I threw in a cheap DVD-R and it burned fine

So is my burner messed up? I have the firmware upgrade from pioneer site when it was first anounced that the 4x medea might "melt" my drive

So I have official firmware and pioneer rw's that won't burn

Please help

[falberni]

If you have the genuine Pioneer's 1.40 firmware, you should not have any problems with RW's. I do have the hacked 1.40 2xall fw. I can only burn RW's with Nero at 1x only. RecordNow DX and others can not burn them properly. Same thing with erasing the disks. Only Nero works at 1x.

[txpharoah]

If you updated your firmware with anything not official, you probably hosed your -RW abilities. THAT'S why I suggest against 2x4all firmwares.

[timbo]

I had the same problem with DVD-RWs but no probs with DVD-r. Try a different make of DVD-RW, as mine works fine with Princo, White label, Verbatim types, but could not write to Datasafe media at all!!!

Hope this helps

[sLiMpAuLy]

but i'm using pioneer rw's and pioneer firmware
shouldn't all be fine?

[txpharoah]

but i'm using pioneer rw's and pioneer firmware
shouldn't all be fine?

Bad laser.

[sLiMpAuLy]

txpharoah
You think it's a bad laser?..... Even if DVD-R's burn fine?

Have you seen/heard of this before?

[gcutler]

I've seen that on CD-R/RW drives where the R or RW stops but the other writing option works. Seems logical that the same problem would exist on DVDR/RWs

[Xtasy2002]

It's your media, trust me. Get a different brand and try that instead. If that doesn't work then buy a laser cleaning kit.

[garryheather]

Or a can of air duster - lens cleaners can do more harm than could, but a bit of compressed air never killed anyone (apart from that baddie in one of the Bond films).

[sLiMpAuLy]

Thanks guys.......

I'll try your suggestions and pray for the best.....
I don't feel like ripping my pc apart a having to send a drive for service........

Then what would I do for fun if I can't make DVD's? lol

[RAAGAAman]

It can't be the laser since it takes more write power to burn DVD-R then -RW. Also, why would anyone want to try and burn DVD-RW 1.1 version media at 2X. This media was never speced to burn at 2X. FW hacks to up your write speeds are bad news. I say its your media. Even Pioneer media goes bad.

RG

[Faustus]

On the hacked firmwares: I could very well be wrong but I think any of the recent versions of the hacked firmwares out there took care of the RW issue quite a while back.