DVD player or bad files?

[AlterEgox5]

*snort*

Go figure...this is supposed to be new stuff...(ok, well it's *just* over a year old, and I know that's not technically new in computer years, but you catch my drift I'm sure).

Looks like I'll have to get one of my buddies over here to take a gander at it...I'll just bet it doesn't like the media...picky lil @#$%

Thanks anyway guys! ^_^

NT

[Kraco]

Can you play the said episode directly from your HD? I have very rarely failed to burn a dvd, and in all but one cases it was a bad blank DVD. However, that one case was a corrupted Naruto episode on my HD. It wouldn't properly play directly from the HD, and when I tried to burn it, Nero terminated the burning process. I had to redownload that one episode to be able to burn that DVD.

So, make sure your source is good as well. Take good care of your HD.

[AlterEgox5]

I watch everything before I consider burning it, just in case I come across a movie/series I find I don't like enough to keep around longer than one or two views. And even if one of them was bad, it makes no sense for it not to play on one disc and then play on another.

After further review of everything, I got into contact with a computer pal who is going to take a gander at it today, but last night while we were discussing the topic, I figured out who made the writer (seeing as this is a frankenstein computer) and then went looking for it. To my dismay I found several other forums with people complaining about the same problem I was having. Yippee skippy. It sounds like the hardware just sort of goes "Keh" after maybe a year or so. I contacted my father since he was the one who knew the guys that put this together and told him that this whole "parts of my computer are failing to work like they should be" thing is not cool (I've already had to trade in my speakers - they stopped working right after a year too and for what this thing cost, none too happy bout it). So when I get out of here we're gonna take a bunch of stuff to them and say, "Hey, yeah you - fix it."

Thanks for all your help and suggestions and (if anyone cares) I'll let you know how it all pans out!

NT

[Aeon]

I've never burned anything as data but maybe that's the problem. The steps I take to burn everything is to first convert my avi files to dvd using DivxtoDVD which gives me .vob file. After that I'm able to burn 12eps per disc using Nero.

*Edit* How did I end up in the support forum? Thought this was General Discussion

[darkshadow]

thats not the problem, since i burn 19-26 eps per dvd at 8x without a problem, i had some cases that my burner didnt like the media, but its buffer underrun technology ( every manufactorer names it differently ) saved the media anyway, and i had 1 case that my burner really didnt like the media i was using, and it failed without the buffer even depleting at like 8%

[AlterEgox5]

Yeah, I've been able to burn 5 DVDs with the max amount they can fit (at most 19 eps of something), and even way back when I started burning DVDs (not long after my discovery of torrents - ah how this n00b has advanced), it seemed to have some issues.

It's a Samsung TS-H552B for those of you out there who might be curious.

NT

[Kraco]

It's a Samsung TS-H552B for those of you out there who might be curious.

Well, that explains something...

Quote from conclusions:

• Questionable DVD-R and CD-RW writing quality
• Questionable DVD+R 16x quality
• Poor media compatibility

Some general info below, not directly relating to this problem (it's a lecture):

I can only say that when you buy your next writer, very carefully read a couple of good reviews from the net (and I don't mean one paragraph visitor written reviews over at Amazon). There are huge differences between writers, and the price is not normally a good indication at all, unless you are about to buy one of those $800 Plextors (the cheap Plextors are no better than any other ordinary brands).

Also it could be frustrating to try to hunt a drive that really excels at both reading and writing. Contrary to what you might casually imagine, writers are often much worse at reading bad media than ordinary cheap dvd-rom read-only drives. I have a LiteON writer (got a good review) and a LiteON reader (got a good review as well). The cheap reader gladly accepts some bad disks the writer didn't even try to read or tried to read forever with no results.

The bottom line: Don't automatically trust the salesman. Unless you have a friend who REALLY knows what he's talking about and is not only bragging with his own drive, go and spend hours looking for reviews and comparisons, before buying a drive. Thinking they are all the same or buying the cheapest or most expensive (within reasonable range) leads nowhere.

Uh... This got pretty long... [/end of lecture]