DVD works on comp but NOT on DVD player!slow burn speed=bad?

[Sublimer55]

i just bought all these memorex dvd-r's that i thought were real nice and started burning all my ripped dvd's onto them bc old ones were kinda messed up (shitty dvd's). Anyways, i burned all my dvd's and tested them on my computer to make sure they worked but then they didn't work on my dvd player! what a waste of 30 bucks...but here's the WEIRD thing. I burned all these dvd's at 1x and they didn't work, i use the same DVD's and burn at a higher speed and they work. this info is too late to save my dvd collection but does this make sense at all? or is this just coincidental? is there anyway to make my dvd player play these??? i appreciate any ideas on the subject thanx!

[guns1inger]

There are two schools of thought on this. One says burning slower can produce deeper and more reliable burns because the surface is under the laser for longer. The other says that burning at full speed is more reliable because the stability of the tracking is higher at these speeds.

So what does this prove - f*&ked if I know, but if burning at higher speeds works for you, go fo it.

[Gurm]

Actually one school of thought is that at 1x you get 'overburnt' discs. Many discs no longer support 1x as a burning speed... and many burners won't let you burn at 1x any more.

It happened with CD's - modern CD burners won't go below about 8x.

- Gurm

[Sublimer55]

thanx for the insight guys. i appreciate it.

[nufan292]

Plus drives also use different write strategies for different speeds.