Windows Media Player Error message

[visjds1]

I hope this is the right forum to ask this question.........

I am getting a Windows Media Player Error C00D117E when trying to burn a CD on my PC........

PC runs windows xp with media player #11 on it...........It was working just fine, then on the Other users side of XP (my wife) her Windows media player kept giving her an error when she tried to burn some songs on a CD......

Now I have two drives on my PC to burn CD's........ a DVD-RW and a CD-RW..........

My wife almost always uses the DVD-RW to burn her CD's and it has been working. Even I have used it to burn CD's and it works ok. But lately it have been not working.......Just burning one track of several tracks to burn and then stopping giving this error message C00D117E. Also at the end of the process it says to check the speed in which I am burning, it does not like it for some reason. I have not touched the burning drive speed or properties of either drive since I had them and they worked just fine up until now......

Then I click on Technical details and another message comes up saying "Original Error Code 8FFD0227 Error message not available".......


Can you helpme with this.......

Ok so I'm using windows media player 11 and I'm trying to burn a CD-RW with this Plextor DVD-RW drive, and all of the files convert fine and it starts burning, but during the second song it just stops and says "finalizing disc". A few seconds later it gives me this error:

C00D117E

Something along the lines of "There was some kind of error, turn your burner speed down lower and that might fix it." That was all the help I got from M$, which of course, didn't work. It only happens on the second song, and that kinda makes me think its some kind of CD error, but its not. I have the latest firmware installed.

What do you guys think?

[redwudz]

It may be a media problem. Try reducing the speed of the burn. CDs aren't as critical as DVDs for burn speed, but worth a try. Or try a different brand of CD media. What program are you using to burn the discs? If it's WMP itself, I would try a different burning program.

Some info on WMP burning problems here: http://www.zachd.com/pss/pss.html#xpcdburn

You might try one of these programs instead: https://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/burn

[jman98]

I don't know if this is your problem or not, but you need to be aware of it as a possibility.

Recently my nephew purchased a video game soundtrack that was only available as DRMed WMA files. I had never seen this before, but the DRM has restrictions that do not allow the songs to be burned to a CD. I went to the website and found that the website has this b.s. explanation that the songs are "not optimized for audio CD" or some such nonsense, so they won't let consumers burn them to audio CDs. They have some bogus claim that "real soon" they'll have the songs ready for audio CD burning, but I think those claims are more than 2 years old now. It does seem like your error is not related to this, but just in case it doesn't hurt for you to know this.

I would verify that the songs are supposed to be OK for burning to audio CDs and that they don't have DRM preventing this. You'll need to check the website of wherever she got them from. If they are DRMed, FairUse4WM may be able to remove the DRM if you have a valid license. It doesn't always work, but it might. Another option (I had to do this for my nephew) was install a commercial program that recorded the songs to hard disk as they played and then that was able to be burned to audio CD.

Your burner could be going bad (they do not last forever). It could be that your media is crap, but this is really not so common with CD burning. Bad media is really more of a DVD burning issue in my experience. You might try burning to CD-RW as at least that way you won't waste a disc if it fails. I recommend Verbatim brand media.