Help! None of my dvds work 75% into the disc! WHY?!

[AvramEpilepsia]

Can someone PLEASE help me?! I've had my DVD play for about 3 months now, and it is finally screwing up on me! Everytime i burn a dvd now, the last few chapters come out all screwed up! Some dvd players play the garbled up mess, but my xbox just gives up and freezes when it gets there! I have tried every burning program availible, but they all end up screwing up at the end. Can anyone give me any tips how to over come this problem!? PLEASE!!!

Here's my latest burning project

Anime dvd created out of fansubs
5 episodes, 4 chapters per episode
created with DVD Maestro
titles 1-3 work perfectly, but from chapter 2 of title 4 on, the dvd is unplayable.

This happens with any dvd that i burn! WHY?! please someone help me!

Avram Epilepsia

[ktton]

Could be bad media. What brand of media do you use? what is your dvd burner type?

[AvramEpilepsia]

well, in my experience, it couldn't be the media... I bought a no name brand from supermediastore.com, i believe the dvd-on brand, but i have copied plenty of movies before without it acting up on me... currently, i'm using a tdk indidvd burner, with the dvd-on dvd+rws.

Thanks for the quick reply,

Avram Epilepsia

[tgm4883]

Could be a bad batch of media. Also, is this only on your burned dvd's? or does it do this on pressed dvd's as well?

[AvramEpilepsia]

Well, i'm reading around, and people are suggesting i just try to stay away from the edge of the dvd. Mainly by compressing it more. this happens on most dvds i burn, except dvd-5 to dvd-5. I'm guessing i should try to compress it a bit more, cause when ever i try to burn a dvd, i try to stuff it to exactly 4.32 gbs. Will try again soon and report the findings.

Thanks a ton guys

Avram Epilepsia

[AvramEpilepsia]

argh... gods... i tried to compress the dvds and reburning them, but i'm still encountering the same problems 75% into the disc. I'm pretty sure it can be back media, because this time i stayed clear away from the edge of the disc. I burned a 3.2gb image onto the disc this time, but the end is still messed up... any more suggestions?

thanks

Avram Epilepsia

[luvvbuzz]

must be your burner then, or an issue your burner has with your pc. can you try burning your dvds on a friends computer see if they get a good result? or backup your stuff on your computer, wipe your hard drives, do a clean install of windows and try again. sometimes drivers and chipsets have compatibility issues, especially when allot of multi media programs are installed, its a pain but depends how bad you wanna burn them dvds?

[Gazorgan]

I had a CDR drive go bad that way. For some drives, the farther into the burn the more intense the laser has to be. These are CAV, or Constant Angular Velocity drives. They spin at one speed. As the write head get's farther out, the disk surface is moving faster, so the alser has to burn hotter.

It sounds like your laser isn't re-calibrating if it's exactly at 75% everytime. It can also be bad media. By bad I mean the ID ethced onto the disk that's used to calibrate the laser. Try burning at 1x and see if the problem persists. You hear about burning SVCD's at 4x to get around the calibration issue. You can also get this burning 1x media at 2x/4x (the laser can't get hot enough to do it reliably at the edge of the disk, it's all physics :P )

Do the disks look burned to the edge or do they stop burning or change the reflective look at the 75% mark?