Format of burning for viewing in portable?

[Airjrdn]

I've got a Mintek MDP-1770. I've had it for quite a while and a few months back I ripped some kids DVD's we have and saved them as .avi files. I burned them to DVD+RW and they play just fine. This allows us to carry one DVD with multiple (5 or 6) movies without endangering the originals. Extremely nice for swapping them out in the van on long trips.

I'm trying to do it again, but I'm running into a problem. It doesn't seem to matter how I burn them, the Mintek won't read them. It just says "Unknown Disc".

I'm using the exact same DVD's I used before. In fact, they are from the same spindle.

I've tried using Roxio and Nero. With Nero I've tried "DVD-ROM (ISO)", "DVD_ROM (UDF)", and "DVD_ROM (IDF/ISO)". All of them give me the exact same error.

When I put the DVD in that works, it's recognized one of two ways depending on what software I use to check it out. Either "ISO9660, Joliet, UDF" or "UDF/ISO 9660 (mode 1)".

Any ideas on how I need to burn these for them to work?

Also, these are RW's, but I can't erase them. I'm using an NEC 2510 Dual Layer Burner and the DVD's are TEON DVD+RW.

As a test, I made a copy of one of the working DVD's and it worked just fine. This tells me it's not a driver/hardware problem, it's simply something I'm doing wrong when creating a new one.

Please help me out if you can. I'm going to be on the road a LOT in the next week or two w/the family and this is big deal. hehe

Thanks

[tim6661234]

Did you bitset your discs to -ROM the first time. Some drives don't like +RW but if you bitset them to -ROM they work fine.

[Airjrdn]

Probably not, how do I do that?

Thanks for the reply.

[tim6661234]

You can use DVDInfoPro.

[Airjrdn]

Just ran it. Here's what it says about a working DVD:

                            Media Information                            
Region information                                    N/A not a DVD-VIDEO
Media code/Manufacturer ID                                    CMC MAG F01
Media Product Revision Number                                         00h
Format Type                                                      UDF 1.02
Volume Name                                                              
Application id                                                           
Implementation id                                   RoxioBurnEngine 2.0.2
Recording Date/Time (mm/dd/yyyy)                       9/26/2004 10:13:07
Format Capacity                                            3.71GB(3.99GB)
Book Type                                                           DVD+R
Media Type                                                          DVD+R
Manufacturer Rated Speed                                    4.0x 5540KBps
Available Write Descriptor                           CLV  4.0x   5540KBps
Available Write Descriptor                           CLV  2.4x   3324KBps
Data area starting sector                                          30000h
Data area end sector                                              1DB50Fh
Linear Density                                                0.267um/bit
Track Density                                                0.74um/track
Number of Layers                                                        1
                                                                         
                           Complete Media Code                           
00000000 08 02 00 00 A1 0F 02 00 00 03 00 00 00 26 05 3F .............&.?
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 43 4D 43 20 4D 41 47 00 46 .......CMC MAG.F
00000020 30 31 00 38 23 54 37 10 02 48 71 02 8C 69 16 16 01.8#T7..Hq..i..
00000030 0B 0B 0A 0A 01 1D 1E 0C 0C 12 12 01 00 00 00 00 ................

[tim6661234]

Well first thing is that they are +R's not +RW so thats why you can't erase them.

Its not bitsetting as this disk reports +R as the Book Type.

Do the same with one that doesn't work. Things to look out for are Format Type and Book / Media type. There all a bit different these DivX players. Mine won't read UDF only ISO.

This one recorded as a UDF 1.02 so check the one that don't work to see if its different.

[Airjrdn]

Some of the ones I've been trying have been RW. I've tried (wasted) 11 so far. Here's from a couple of them:

This is a DVD-R

                            Media Information                            
Region information                                    N/A not a DVD-VIDEO
Media code/Manufacturer ID                                         DKMZ01
Format Capacity                                            0.36GB(0.38GB)
Book Type                                                           DVD-R
Media Type                                                          DVD-R
Manufacturer Rated Speed                                  4.0x   5540KBps
Available Write Descriptor                           CLV  4.0x   5540KBps
Write Strategy Speed                                        4.0x 5540KBps
2x Speed OPC beta                                                      0B
2x Speed OPC power                                                     10
2x Write Strategy field 1                                     11 87 78 80
2x Write Strategy field 2                               88 80 00 00 00 00
4x Speed OPC beta                                                      01
4x Speed OPC power                                                     1B
4x Write Strategy field 1                                     0B 0F 08 08
4x Write Strategy field 2                                     55 09 10 0B
4x Write Strategy field 3                                     00 00 00 00
4x Speed OPC beta multi-pulse                                          06
4x Speed OPC power multi-pulse                                         1C
4x Write Strategy field 4                                     13 A8 88 65
4x Write Strategy field 5                               98 9A 88 80 00 00
4x Write Strategy field 6                                  00 00 D0 00 00
Data area starting sector                                          30000h
Data area end sector                                               2D8CFh
Linear Density                                                0.267um/bit
Track Density                                                0.74um/track
Number of Layers                                                        1
                                                                         
                           Complete Media Code                           
00000000 00 AA 00 00 01 40 C1 FD 9E D8 52 00 02 87 0E 15 .....@....R.....
00000010 98 9A 90 00 03 44 4B 4D 5A 30 31 00 04 00 00 00 .....DKMZ01.....
00000020 00 00 00 00 05 CC C0 00 00 00 01 00 06 0B 10 11 ................

This is from an RW...one just like the one that works

                            Media Information                            
Region information                                    N/A not a DVD-VIDEO
Media code/Manufacturer ID                                    CMC MAG F01
Media Product Revision Number                                         00h
Format Type                                                      UDF 1.02
Volume Name                                                              
Application id                                                           
Implementation id                                              AHEAD Nero
Recording Date/Time (mm/dd/yyyy)                      12/11/2004 23:27:26
Format Capacity                                            3.26GB(3.50GB)
Book Type                                                           DVD+R
Media Type                                                          DVD+R
Manufacturer Rated Speed                                    4.0x 5540KBps
Available Write Descriptor                           CLV  4.0x   5540KBps
Available Write Descriptor                           CLV  2.4x   3324KBps
Data area starting sector                                          30000h
Data area end sector                                              1A123Fh
Linear Density                                                0.267um/bit
Track Density                                                0.74um/track
Number of Layers                                                        1
                                                                         
                           Complete Media Code                           
00000000 08 02 00 00 A1 0F 02 00 00 03 00 00 00 1D 12 3F ...............?
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 43 4D 43 20 4D 41 47 00 46 .......CMC MAG.F
00000020 30 31 00 38 23 54 37 10 02 48 71 02 8C 69 16 16 01.8#T7..Hq..i..
00000030 0B 0B 0A 0A 01 1D 1E 0C 0C 12 12 01 00 00 00 00 ................

This is a -R. I made a copy of a working one onto one of these and it worked just fine. This is one of those, but is not the copy of the working one.

                            Media Information                            
Region information                                    N/A not a DVD-VIDEO
Media code/Manufacturer ID                                       RITEKG02
Format Capacity                                            0.36GB(0.38GB)
Book Type                                                           DVD-R
Media Type                                                          DVD-R
Manufacturer Rated Speed                                  2.0x   2770KBps
Available Write Descriptor                           CLV  2.0x   2770KBps
Write Strategy Speed                                        1.0x 1385KBps
Data area starting sector                                          30000h
Data area end sector                                               2D8DFh
Linear Density                                                0.267um/bit
Track Density                                                0.74um/track
Number of Layers                                                        1
                                                                         
                           Complete Media Code                           
00000000 00 2A 00 00 01 40 C1 FD 9E D8 50 00 02 87 0E 13 .*...@....P.....
00000010 88 99 80 00 03 52 49 54 45 4B 47 00 04 30 32 00 .....RITEKG..02.
00000020 00 00 00 00 05 88 80 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 ................

[tim6661234]

Doesn't seem any pattern but I can't see the Format type on some of these.

[Airjrdn]

There's got to be something I did differently before.

Anyone here got a Mintek 1770 and know what settings to use?

[Airjrdn]

Sorry for bumping my own thread but I'm really lost here. I've gone through close to 15 DVD's at this point just trying to figure out what I did before.

The thing is, I don't remember doing anything special.

[mastersmurfie]

This one recorded as a UDF 1.02 so check the one that don't work to see if its different.

Doesn't seem any pattern but I can't see the Format type on some of these.

seems that the ones that work use Format type UDF 1.02

check settings in Nero under DVD-ROM (UDF)

also, not sure which version of Nero you're using, but I have had much success using 5.5.10.xx, and checking the "Force DVD-Video compatibility mode (required for XBox) under DVD-ROM (UDF) and (UDF/ISO)

[Airjrdn]

Thanks for the info. I'm using 6.6.0.3 I believe.