Why do my DVDs become corrupted at the end of the disc?

[NBninja8]

Could this be a problem with a bad DVD burner?

At first I was burning with some cheap office depot discs, the played horrible, I thought it was just because they were so cheap. So I bought some memorex discs. They played better, but still corrupted at the end. I got some Sonys after that and they played the same as the memorex discs played.

I don't have another burner, so I don't know how to know if its my burner or not. I've tried defragmenting the hard drive. I have a 2.00 ghz single core processor, and 768 MB of memory.

Any thoughts? Thanks

[hech54]

Taiyo Yuden from www.rima.com will fix the problem...and cheaply too.

[freebird73717]

Poor grade media usually gives that problem.

Possible fixes

a. Upgrade firmware to dvd burner. (might add better support for some media)

b. Don't fill disc completely

c. Of course the easiest way has already been suggested buy hech54 and that is to just buy better discs to begin with.

[jman98]

Memorex and Office Depot brand are 2 of the worst discs ever. We generally recommend using Verbatim and Taiyo Yuden here. If you are interested, you can go to http://www.nomorecoasters.com for more info on DVD media.

[oldandinthe way]

The media you have chosen are clearly poor performers with your burner.

Many burners are unable to burn what are identified on this forum and on nomorecoasters as lower quality media.

Other burners can successfully burn these media.

Burns are performed starting at the center of the disk and moving outward. Lower quality media frequently have problems with the outer edge of the media. Since the data transfer rate is higher at the outer edges of the media, flaws in your burner and inability to maintain the trasfer rate are more likely to occur.

If you like to make your media purchases in a store rather than on the Internet, you will probably be limited to Verbatim media (available at Officemax and BestBuy).

If you would like to buy your media in a wider variety of stores, replacing your burner with one which is usually succesful in burning lower quality media will be necessary. The media lists on the left on this site can help you determine which burners succesfully burn HP, Imation, TDK, Memorex, SONY and other media which are commonly sold at retail. Make sure you check the LG and Samsung models.

[NBninja8]

that sucks!

I thought Sony Discs were high quality. Who told me that?

Verbatim works very good, I bought a few awhile ago but ran out. I didn't see them when I was looking for discs, so I bought the sonys thinking they were high quality also. Thanks anyways.

[lordsmurf]

Sony discs are high quality, if they are 4x-16x speed, and made in Taiwan or Japan. If you have trouble with these, it's generally a burner firmware issue. Or the burner is too old (firmware too old). However, I must say, Sony DVD+R performs well even using a "generic" write strategy on older burners.

Older 2x discs, and Malaysian discs, under the Sony name, are crap. These perform poorly in all burners.

[oldandinthe way]

SONY disks may be high quality but they are poor performers in YOUR burner. You are not unique. Many users discover they cannot burn SONY or some other specific brand. Indeed this is part of why many posters on this forum become adamant about using only TY or Verbatim.

A firmware update might help. But unfortunately some burners just will not write some brands of media.

Burner manufacturers are not required to test their burners against all brands of media. Some seem to do a better job than others. High quality media does not guarantee successful burns on all burners. But your chances of success do increase with higher quality media, if your drive is prone to media incompatibility.

[pepegot1]

I just had this problem-freeze up at the end of disc. I used ISObuster to rip from the problem DVD and reburned to the same kind of TDK DVD-R disc. The disc worked perfectly after that. I then used that newly burnt disc to make another copy and the problem came back from the copied disc. I, then burnt the ripped ISOBuster DVD to a Verbatim disc and used it to make a copy-NO PROBLEMS! So, it was the media that was at fault. Moral of the story-buy quality discs-TG or Verbatim.

[oldandinthe way]

I just had this problem-freeze up at the end of disc. I used ISObuster to rip from the problem DVD and reburned to the same kind of TDK DVD-R disc. The disc worked perfectly after that. I then used that newly burnt disc to make another copy and the problem came back from the copied disc. I, then burnt the ripped ISOBuster DVD to a Verbatim disc and used it to make a copy-NO PROBLEMS! So, it was the media that was at fault. Moral of the story-buy quality discs-TG or Verbatim.

Your TDK disks were probably CMC media. Although by some media standards CMC media are less than high quality, millions of CMC disks are burned each month by owners of many different DVDburners. Without the problems you have experienced.

Some burners are incapable of succesfully burning these disks, apparently your plextor among them. If TY and Verbatim work for you use them.

The optical storage industry is well aware of the incompatibility of certain media/burner pairs and is working to foster cooperation amoung burner and media manufacturers. Their results have been mixed. Some children don't play well with others.

[mats.hogberg]

I just had this problem-freeze up at the end of disc.

So don't use the end of the disk. I always keep below 4.2 GB, and couldn't care less what media I buy. So far, as long as I don't try to fill the disk to the brim, all brands/manufactures work. I can't find any reason to pay twice as much for my media if the only thing it does is to enable me to squeeze in that extra 200 MB.

/Mats

[NBninja8]

Thanks for the help

At least theres still hope my sonys wont become coasters. I'll look for a firmwire update, my drive is a few years old now.

By the way the sonys are 16x DVD-R and I burned them at 2x.

Did someone say that TDK was also CMC Magnet? I've burned TDK before and they play fine, however I never burned them to their full capability like I did with the sonys.

Also I've heard people say that DVDs burned with CMC magnets only last about 3 years or so. For those of you who burn with Sonys and they play fine, have you ever noticed this happening with your discs?

[freebird73717]

For firmware updates

www.rpc1.org

They were offline for a while but they are now back up.

[redwudz]

JMO, but burning 16X media at 2X may be overkill and your burner may turn out worse discs than at 16X. Burners are designed for certain speeds for each media. 12X is what I use for 16X discs as a compromise. But I only use quality media, TY or Verbs most times.

And it never hurts with any brand media to trim off 100 - 200MBs from the total finished size. With a 4.37GB DVD-5 disc, you are unlikely to see the difference in quality. And with lower cost DVD media, you may avoid problems towards the outside edge of the disc.

[s2t]

I am a new and hope this forum will help me.
I am using printable and non printable DVD, first of all now i burn my video DVD with x6-this is a maximum speed that gave me less DVD trash. But i still have problem with printable DVD. Some images don’t work at all, some working only on DVD recorders. Some i couldn't make to work (time by time stops). This is copied from non printable DVD that works fine.
Printable DVD-Sony, non printable-any brand-almoust working fine.
I have two DVD burners-internal, external. Internal works better but some time i use external becouse internal trash DVDs.
System is WinXP, Nero8

[lordsmurf]

Sony made in Taiwan are good. I've never seen them fail in any burner to date (aside from the <5% average). The DVD+R are generally better than the DVD-R.

Sony made in Malaysia are crap, huge fail numbers on those. Avoid. The DVD-R fair better than the DVD+R, but both are still garbage.

The drive makes a difference. My internal laptop LG drive is a piece of shit, I want to replace it with something else. My external Sony/Samsung drive is perfect, beautiful burns on a good disc (such as Taiwanese Sony).

[s2t]

Finally with few years of burning i am ok with 5% trash with printable, non printable 1-2%. What is worth for me is that some doesn't work at all on printable. May be problenm is: I am using DVD-R, and need start to use DVD+R. But what happened if some one has old DVD player? Just want to find solution.