DVD player or bad files?

[AlterEgox5]

All right, I'm sick and tired of not having a clue as to what is going on. You see, I don't have room on my computer for tons of anime and don't have the money to buy an external harddrive, so I simply burn the anime I really want to keep onto DVDs as data files. However, there have been times where it doesn't work. It will start to burn the info and then stop, claiming there has been an error. This has happened several times, and I've been successful 3 or 4 times out of maybe 8 or 10. The weird thing is, one time I tried a set of files, it didn't work. Yet weeks later I tried it again and it worked fine.



So I saved the log it made most recently in hopes that maybe someone who understood it more than myself might be able to shed some light on the problem. I don't know of my DVD drive is just screwy, if the DVDs themselves have issues, or if the files I'm trying to burn just don't want to burn.

Attachment 4

NT

[Kraco]

I'm no pro and maybe no wiser than you are, but one interesting thing is that your media should be ok. ProdiscF01 has received quite good feedback at videohelp.com.

Are you positive your writer is ok?

[AlterEgox5]

That's the thing, I don't know if my writer is okay - all my computer buddies live far away now and I don't have dough to bother screwing around with Best Buy or something. I've suspected it for a while, but I don't know how to make sure...

Maybe I can get one of my pals to come over and look at it...but then he might take it apart and leave is scattered across the floor... ¬.¬'

NT

[darkshadow]

i couldnt see any kind of buffer underrun protection buffering being logged, maybe you should try burning at lower speeds

[Kraco]

What comes to that, it's not a simple issue. If you have many other programs running when you are burning, it can be deleterious especially if much HD access is going on. So, instead of burning at lower speeds it might be wiser to decrease the competition to the HD access. In the end the writers burn with optimum quality typically at the max speed. That's why saving time is not the only reason to always burn at full throttle.

[AlterEgox5]

That actually occurred to me too, the running of more than one thing while burning. Usually though, before I start burning I close everything out. Today all I had up was Winamp (but not playing), AIM (but not chatting), and uTorrent (3 torrents running). My plan was not to try anything again until uTorrent was finished. Even if I do try the lower speed idea, I'm still going to wait until all the torrents are done - I don't trust anything these days when it comes to burning stuff. I'm tired of throwing away half-burned DVDs.

About 5 minutes ago a friend IMed me and said the same thing, "Try burning at 4x - for whatever reason it doesn't like it when you burn at 8x."

Guess I'll find out just what it likes when uTorrent is done...

NT

[Kraco]

Well, it's an idea to try a lower speed. Maybe your drive just doesn't happen to like those disks. That can unfortunately happen. Updating the firmware sometimes helps, if updates are available.

Hmm... I have never even tried burning with torrents running. Torrenting is about as HD intensive as you can get (second to copying and other very direct HD accessing). Especially if you haven't set buffers for utorrent. By default it has no read buffer, and very small write buffer. And that means it's a lot more HD intensive.