Unable to Recover TOC.... (Dvd Decrypter)

[biged670]

Hiya fellas I've recently burnt a dvd and it plays fine. I've just put the disc back into my drive and opened dvd decrypter but I get the message 'Device not ready, unable to recover toc' I've used two different types of media and get this message everey time. It's like it's not reading the disc although it picks them up fine before I write to them. Any ideas?

[VirtualDoobMon]

If you're using DVD-R's with CPRM that could be the issue.

[grannyGeek]

This could also be a possiblity:

When you go to write a Disc At Once (DAO), all the information needed for the job is available when you start. Mastering software assembles that information and decides what is to be in the TOC. When everything is ready, the laser is positioned and turned on and writing begins. The first thing written is the TOC which says: this is a closed disc of a single session and here is the information on what you will find where among the following bytes. The laser then proceeds to write those bytes in sequence and in accordance with the information saved to the TOC. When the last byte is written, the laser turns off and you have a good disc. If that burn is interrupted after the TOC is written but before the end, everything is accessible up to the failure. An audio disc which fails when track 5 is being written will be usable for tracks 1-4 and maybe for the written part of 5 - but what happens when the track runs out depends on the player

taken from this article http://www.mrichter.com/cdr/primer/ticktoc.htm

[biged670]

What is meant by using dvd-r's with CPRM? What are the sollutions?

[VirtualDoobMon]

CPRM = Content Protection for Recordable Media.
Install DVD43 and see if DVD Decypter is able to read. If that doesn't work
install anydvd. cheers.