How to record DVD+R media and finish up with a DVD-R disc.

[blinky88]

I have been given some DVD+R media for Xmas and discovered my DVD player only plays DVD-R and DVD+RW. I saw a posting on this site which addressed that problem by encoding the +disc as a -disc however, after a couple of hours searching through the various forums have been unable to locate that posting again.

Would someone please explain how this is done.

Thanks in advance to those members who respond, any suggestion that solves this problem will be very much appreciated.

[bazooka]

The easiest thing would be to go buy -r discs.

If you don't want to do that, you can use Nero and bitset the +r disc as a dvd-rom.

[canadateck]

Your burner must support Bitsetting, What model burner do you have?

[Laddydaddy]

Hello Blinky

Assuming you have a DVD burner on your computer, no encoding is necessary. You only need DVD Decrypter. Just choose ISO read and rip the files to your hard drive. Then choose ISO write. Navigate to the ISO image you just created and then burn that image to your DVD-R.

[canadateck]

Heres a thread with some good info

www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=249499&highlight=bitsetting

[blinky88]

Laddydaddy,

My burner is a Pioneer 106D. I have ripped the back-up to an ISO file however the result is a DVD+R which my DVD player does not support.

I use Shrink to encode and Decrypter to burn.

[Laddydaddy]

If you have a Pioneer and you use a -R disc to burn the files to, it will be a -R disc. What makes you think it is a +R disc?

[RonBoy]

All DVD + media is designated as RW which includes both DVD+R and +RW media.

Ron

[bazooka]

All DVD + media is designated as RW which includes both DVD+R and +RW media.

Ron

No

If it is +RW, it will say +RW.

If not marked as +RW, it is +R.

[blinky88]

Ron,

If that was true then my DVD player would indentify the disc as DVD+RW .... it doesn't, it simply does not read or play DVD+R.

Liddydaddy,

Please read my post, I state I have been given a quanity of DVD+r blanks for Xmas and I would very much like to use them as they cannot be returned.

[blinky88]

Thank you Canadatech, I think you are the only one who actually understood my posting.

(I still very much appreciate the comments from other members as I know they are only trying to help)

[RonBoy]

Better go check your media.
I've only been doing this for about 6 months and the only + media I've gotten so far that didn't have an RW on it was Verbatim Digital movie DVD+r and even it's packaging said RW on it with an additional DVD+R below it.
I'll admit I havn't used that many brands but my Maxell, TDK, Ridata, Memorex, Fuji and Philips all have an RW on them whether +r or +rw.

[bazooka]

Blinky

I also told you to bitset the discs as dvd-rom.

[Laddydaddy]

Maybe I wasn't clear. You said you ripped your back up to an ISO file, but the result is a DVD+R. Your ISO file isn't +R or -R. It's just an ISO file. If you burn that file to a DVD-R and your player supports -R discs, you shouldn't have a problem playing it. It's just a matter of copying the files to your hard drive, and burning them to a -R disc.

[Laddydaddy]

Sorry blinky, I didn't realize they were blank discs. I thought they had files on them you couldn't play. My error. At any rate, not every DVD burner supports bitsetting. As far as I know your Pioneer does not.

[Skith]

I am unsure if the poineer 106 supports bitsetting. I believe the 108 supports it (only with hacked firmware).

A drive that supports bitsetting can make a DVD+R/+RW/DL disc "identify" as a DVD-ROM disc. This tricks players into playing the disc.

You can not bitset to -R/-RW.

You might want to check the pioneer forum at CDFreaks to see if bitsetting is possible with your drive. Link

I would not get your hopes up though. If worse comes to worse, and you need to purchase some -R media, try http://www.rima.com. Great prices on Taiyo Yuden -R media.

Good Luck

[blinky88]

Thank you Skith, spot on. Thanks also to the other members for the responses. I eventually found the posting discussing firmware that sets the bookmark to DVD-ROM. Piodata firmware does it for the Pioneer 108 however, I have not been able to find a firmware update for the 106.

[Quantum]

I own both the Pioneer DVR-106D and Pioneer DVR-108. The 106 has no firmware, hack or otherwise, that supports bitsetting right now. The DVR-108 can use the Piodata DVR-108BK kernal and firmware which automatically sets DVD+R single and dual layer to DVD-ROM. The Piodata firmware is supplied by Pioneer and is updated with the Pioneer firmwares (same version numbers, ect.) It is only a hack in the sense that you are flashing it to a Pioneer drive.